Tape-free Protection from Tardis and IBM FastBack

Tape backup systems in remote offices are full of manual processes... and fraught with danger. Labelling, loading, unloading, tensioning, shipping, re-using and erasing tapes all carry inherent risks and, because the processes are carried out by human beings, error-points abound.

IBM now offers an extensive, cost-effective data protection and recovery solution that’s specifically designed to help remote offices maintain operations, regardless of the type of data loss. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack suite of products provides:

• Adaptable data protection policies for remote applications

• Fast block-level data acquisition with minimal impact on application performance

• Virtual recovery capabilities, providing near-instant access to lost data

• End-to-end automation to help eliminate manual protection processes

• Selective replication for off-site data protection with minimal impact on WANs

• Central management and control of remote office protection

If you’re interested in a reliable, centralised, automated backup solution for your remote offices, please click here to download the IBM data protection and recovery white paper.

Alternatively, give us a call on
+ 61 2 8870 9000 to speak to one of our Storage and Recovery specialists about your business’ specific requirements.

New Intel-based Server Range from IBM

IBM has announced a new range of rack mount, tower and blade servers that double the performance of previous generation servers based on the powerful Intel® Xeon® 5500 series dual- or quad-core processor with innovative micro architecture design featuring Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) technology.

This new range of servers:

• reduces power consumption by more than 50%

• lowers costs by up to 42% using IBM management tools

IBM has announced important updates to their 1 RU and 2 RU rack mount servers (x3550 M2 and x3650 M2), Blade Servers (HS22) and tower servers (x3400 M2 and x3500 M2). These new servers are easier than ever before to deploy, integrate and manage...and they have the added benefit of helping you plan and control data centre energy usage for a leaner, greener future.

Click here for more information. For a product update from Tardis and more on what IBM’s new Intel-based server range can do for your business please call us today on + 61 2 8870 9000.

Storage Solutions Seminar

Learn everything you need to know about storage by joining us in the BPIC Room at Tardis’ offices on Wednesday, July 15th 2009. Let experts provide you with a one-hour overview of the best storage solutions for your business…and the opportunity to go into the running to win one of three Storage Assessments, each valued at $3,600.

Increasingly high-information environments have pushed the issue of storage to the forefront of IT planning. The right solution can have enormous savings for your business in (down) time, money and energy while improving availability, performance and IT management.

Please join us for this essential event. Registration starts at 1:45 pm, followed by the presentation from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Importantly, there will be a question and answer session afterwards where you’ll get information that addresses your specific business needs.

Call us today on 9450.3273 or click here to register your details for this timely presentation, the first in our series on industry-leading business solutions. It’s sure to be time well spent.

Storage Reinvented – The New IBM XIV Storage System

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a revolutionary high-end open disk system designed to support key current and future business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Its design is a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, connected in any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet. The XIV’s groundbreaking architecture provides outstanding performance, scalability and reliability. It is also a core component of the IBM Information Infrastructure, helping clients meet their availability, security, compliance and information retention needs.

The XIV’s massive parallelism architecture provides a solution that delivers:

• Consistent performance with no hard drive hot spots

• Improved reliability from near-instant self-healing

• Dramatically reduced management through true self tuning system virtualisation

Scalable and reliable, the XIV’s simple, intuitive GUI presents practically no learning curve for IT administrators. Even better, the XIV has a remarkably low total cost of ownership.

To talk to one of our consultants about what the IBM XIV from Tardis can do for your storage, call us on + 61 2 8870 9000 today.

Tardis Adds Microsoft SharePoint Certification to Portfolio

Tardis Services’ partnership with Microsoft continues to grow in leaps and bounds. In addition to our existing Gold Partner status, we’ve now been awarded SharePoint certification in the Information Worker – Portals and Collaboration competency. This means that we’ve improved our capability to plan, install, develop and maintain Microsoft SharePoint solutions.

Microsoft Office SharePoint is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organisational effectiveness; it provides comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerates shared business processes and enables information-sharing across boundaries to give your business better insight. SharePoint also gives IT professionals and developers the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility and interoperability.

If you’re interested in finding out more about how Microsoft SharePoint could help your business operate more effectively, please click here or call us on + 61 2 8870 9000.

Tardis Increases Project Management Skill Set

We’re delighted to announce that our Implementation Manager, Bill Monds, has just achieved his PRINCE2 Practitioner certification. PRINCE2 is a process-based approach to project management, covering management, control and organisation of any type or size project in any organisation. It’s scalable and easily tailored to your business environment and importantly, it’s results-based. What that means for you is that when we undertake your next project, we’ll be more efficient and effective than ever before.

The PRINCE2 approach melds seamlessly with Tardis’ existing approach to good project management, helping ensure that objectives are met on time, within budget and at the best possible quality, that risks are identified and managed appropriately and benefits are rapidly achieved so that your return on investment starts swiftly.

At Tardis we’re renowned for our commitment to our customers’ results. If you’d like to hear more about how our approach could benefit your business, please click here or call us on + 61 2 8870 9000.