| PROMOTION - Save up to 50% on VERITAS NetBackup
VERITAS is pleased to offer a price promotion
on the Linux and Windows NetBackup Starter Packs.
The starter packs include one NetBackup Server
License, five Client Licenses and one Tape Drive
License.
VERITAS NetBackup is ideal for Backup Exec users
looking to migrate to an enterprise class, scalable,
robust and feature rich solution to address today’s
growing backup and recovery challenges. The NetBackup
Starter Pack is easy to deploy and enables a high
performance backup and recovery experience right
out-of-the-box.
This promotional offer is available through Q
Associates until Wednesday 22nd December 2004.
Back to Contents
NEW
– Sun Launches Solaris 10
Sun has launched its powerful new operating system,
Solaris 10, offering optimal utilisation, unparalleled
security and relentless availability.
Solaris 10 runs on a broad range of SPARC and
x86-based systems, has predictive self-healing
technologies, provides simplified file management
with ZFS and “always on” rapid evaluation
and resolution of system problems with DTrace.
For a limited time, Sun is offering special discounts
on Solaris 10 training courses.
Back to Contents
NEW – Sun Announces new NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Solution
Sun has recently announced the latest addition
to its NAS range of storage solutions, the Sun
StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance.
The 5310 NAS Appliance has been designed for
multi-protocol IT environments seeking to consolidate
storage, and comes with a host of enterprise-class
features including file system journaling, check
pointing, clustering and system redundancy. It
also supports UNIX and Windows, simplifying file
sharing between disparate platforms.
Back to Contents
NEW - IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400
IBM introduces the new IBM TotalStorage DS300
and DS400, entry-level, cost effective iSCSI &
Fibre Channel workgroup storage subsystems for
IBM eServer System-x (xseries) and BladeCenter customers.
Designed to deliver advanced functionality at
a breakthrough price, these systems provide an
exceptional solution for workgroup storage applications
such as email, file, print and web servers, as
well as collaborative databases and remote boot
for diskless servers.
Back to Contents
CONSOLIDATE
Data with Oracle and Network Appliance
Oracle and Network Appliance enable you to consolidate
data and storage from hundreds or thousands of
servers using simple but powerful tools that help
manage storage efficiently in a mixed networking
environment.
Oracle enables the grid with Oracle Database
10g, and NetApp with its flexible storage architecture.
You can add storage incrementally when you need
it, with zero database or business application
downtime, making NetApp storage ideally suited
to Oracle Databases deployed in enterprise grid
environments.
Back to Contents
FREE
Windows Storage Audit - Understand What’s
Using Your Storage
Q Associates are offering a free storage audit
for up to three servers, providing useful information
on resource consumption within your environment.
This can be followed up by a full storage assessment
allowing you to take control of your Microsoft
Windows storage growth.
As data continues to expand, storage costs remain
one of the main IT issues. In a recent VERITAS
survey, 75% of the system administrators stated
they were not in full control of their Windows
storage environment, whilst 92% of those surveyed
said their storage capacity will double in the
next two years.
This offer is available to the first 10 customers
who apply for the Q Associates Storage Audit.
Back to Contents
Finally....
All of us here at Q Associates are continuously
trying to add to the quality of our service.
If there is anything you wish to comment on,
either about this newsletter or regarding the
Website, please feel free to use the online Feedback
form.
Back to Contents
Do
you want to subscribe?
If this has been sent to you by a colleague and
you would like to receive QNews yourself then
Click Here
to fill in our subscription form.
Back to Contents |
