IBM'S SHARK POWERS STORAGE SOLUTION FOR PACIFIC DATA.Newly formed information service provider Pacific Data Technology Inc. reeled in a winning data management and growth strategy by choosing an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) storage system with a "Shark" Enterprise Storage Server as its centerpiece. In today's fast-moving real estate market, providing access to changing property roll information on the Internet is a competitive advantage. Pacific Data, a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies, Inc. in Dallas Texas, administers one of the largest online real estate property databases, monitoring more than 65 million land parcels from 226 counties surrounding major metropolitan areas of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Pacific Data's core business is to transform vast amounts of raw data into usable business intelligence for mortgage brokers, lenders, direct marketing companies and real estate brokers throughout the country. After evaluating a competitive offer from EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Pacific Data instead accepted a proposal from solutions provider and integrator, REAL Solutions, to replace its locally attached Refers to disks, printers and other peripheral devices that are connected directly to a computer via USB or FireWire. Such devices may be designed for desktop use or portability. For example, a locally-attached, stationary hard drive may weigh three to five pounds, while one made for disk storage with a 2.5 terabyte (TB) "Shark" and Magstar 3590 Tape subsystem from IBM. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Pacific Data's Chief Technology Officer, Gene Berger, the decision to go with IBM was based not only on the superior technology of its disk and tape products, but also on support and service. "We evaluated both EMC and IBM, and went with the Shark because IBM provided the best total picture -- from performance to service," said Berger. "And the Magstar Tape Library provided us with the price point and speed that EMC doesn't offer." Pacific Data's decision to choose IBM for its service and support is echoed in a report on Storage Services by IDC (May 2000), which found that customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. storage-related services as their demands for more storage capacity and faster access increase. Customers are also looking for assurances that their systems will be available on a 24x7 basis, according to IDC, which identified IBM as the industry leader in storage services revenues. Underpinning Pacific Data's network is the IBM Shark, attached to a cluster of eight Windows NT servers running IBM's DB2 Extended Enterprise Edition (EEE EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. ) for 24x7 operation. Shark was selected for its reliability, availability, scalability and ability to connect easily to multiple platforms. Since installing IBM's Shark as the foundation of its production systems strategy, Pacific Data has enjoyed a 400 percent improvement in the speed of its applications. The Shark Enterprise Storage Server is the high-performance disk storage solution from IBM, the world leader in storage systems, software, services and technology. Built on the foundation of IBM's Seascape Storage Enterprise Architecture, Shark works with Windows NT, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Novell NetWare, S/390 and AS/400 -- and with a variety of interfaces, including Fibre Channel, Ultra SCSI and ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. . Shark incorporates IBM unique technology such as Parallel Access Volumes (PAV) currently unavailable in competing systems from EMC and Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. . REAL Solutions was established in early 1988 as REAL Applications, Ltd., the IBM computer systems subsidiary of El Camino Resources, Ltd., one of the world's leading information technology providers. Today, REAL Solutions is a dominant force in the IBM reseller marketplace, the leading provider of IBM high-end data storage solutions and a major presence in the AS/400 and RS/6000 markets. Two European acquisitions, made by the parent company, are also part of the REAL organization. These businesses are Information Systems, GmbH (Germany) and Oak Brook International, Ltd. in the United Kingdom. |
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