IFAW was created four decades ago to protect white-coat harp seals against commercial hunting on the eastern coast of Canada. Today, IFAW is the world’s leading international animal welfare organization focused on saving threatened species and animals in crisis through a variety of campaigns and programs.
The architecture deploys NetApp unified storage systems running the Data OnTap storage operating system, with a software bundle that includes the NetApp OnCommand 3.0 plug-in for Microsoft MB2-868, slated to be commercially available in August. The reference architecture should help enterprises virtualize their NetApp block-based storage systems so they can be managed from Microsoft System Center.
The number and types of managed security service providers (MSSPs) are growing, and enterprises are faced with more choices of managed security services (MSSs). Enterprises must define the scope of security activities and their level-of-service expectations before evaluating prospective MSSPs. According to the report, MSSPs in North America generated revenue of $1.8 billion in 2009, representing growth of 24 percent over 2008, and Gartner is predicting that revenue will have grown to $2.3 billion for 2010.
This leaves enterprises with more bandwidth available for running critical enterprise applications or disaster recovery without negatively impacting employees. WAN optimization also significantly reduces the amount of bandwidth consumed by other enterprise applications, freeing up more room on the WAN pipe for streaming applications. Additionally, quality of service (QoS) policies ensures that video and other real-time traffic can be prioritized.
The new IBM PowerPC® A2 processing architecture plays a key role in delivering performance. Each processor includes 16 compute cores (up from four used with Blue Gene/P, the previous system) plus a core allocated to operating system administrative functions and a redundant spare core.
