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CDS Connections is brought to you by Commercial Data Systems, Inc. (CDS). The goal of this quarterly publication is to bring to you, our customers, the latest industry trends, CDS updates, partner information, and highlight solutions that will impact how you do business. As your IT provider we are pleased to offer this resource, complete computing solutions' and the IT expertise 'You Can Trust'. -- Last update: Summer 2009

This quarter CDS is pleased to announce its first annual "partner of the year", program. This is in recognition and acknowledgement of contributions, by our manufacturer field representatives. CDS asked our field sales team to choose a "Best in Field Sales" from our partner communities. We received an over whelming response and are honored to announce the following nominees:

award Thomas Wright, Federal Account Manager, Army G2 / Army Southeast, NetApp
Matt Schoger, Regional Manager, MOCA
Jody Fuller, U.S. Navy Account Manager, NetApp
Rahn Jackson, Sales Representative, NetApp
Duane Davenport, Account Manger, Hitachi
Brad Hernandez, Sales Representative, IBM
Ed Zaleski, USMC Account Executive, NetApp
Lori Barber, DOE Sales Representative, NetApp
Jon Bakke, Sr. Director NSG, Oracle
John Strong, Account Manager, Sun Microsystems
Marita Mitchell, MOCA Services Sales, MOCA
Chuck Mewshaw, Regional Director, Sun Microsystems
John Williams, Sales Representative, Hitachi Data Systems
Vincent Martinez, State and Local Sales for NM and AZ, NetApp

Congratulations to all the nominess, the results will be announced July 25.

NetApp Named Microsoft 2009 Storage Solutions Partner of the Year -by NetApp Press Relations

NetApp announced that it has been named the Microsoft 2009 Partner of the Year, in the Advanced Infrastructure, Storage Solutions category. NetApp was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ environments. This award, chosen by a panel of Microsoft judges, reflects NetApp's long-standing partnership with Microsoft and its commitment to and success helping Microsoft customers do more with less in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint® Server, SQL Server®, and Hyper-V environments.

With NetApp, Microsoft customers can reduce the amount of storage they need by at least 50% when they also use NetApp® technologies such as thin provisioning and deduplication. Earlier this year NetApp announced a unique storage efficiency program that guarantees that customers running Hyper-V environments will use 50% less storage with NetApp compared to traditional storage*. The NetApp guarantee can help minimize investment costs and risks while enabling customers to achieve greater storage utilization in their virtual server and desktop environments.

For the full story read on at: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20090624-storage-partner-award.html

Brocade Demonstrates Continued Momentum of End-to-End Storage Networking Solutions -by Brocade Press Relations

Brocade announced that it has achieved a major milestone in its data center strategy to develop the highest-performance, most cost- effective, and most reliable end-to-end networking solutions available on the market today. Adding to its rich portfolio of networking solutions, Brocade has now completed testing and interoperability qualification of its server connectivity solutions, or host bus adapters (HBAs), by many leading storage manufacturers.

Brocade HBAs deliver unique breakthrough performance and end-to-end networking capabilities for customers implementing server virtualization as part of their data center strategy. Augmenting the industry-leading performance of the Brocade DCX® Backbone family, Brocade HBAs utilize an industry-first integration of important adapter functions, such as virtual channels, into high-performance hardware. Brocade end-to-end storage networking solutions offer unmatched server-to-storage connectivity as well as Brocade Adaptive Networking services such as true Quality of Service (QoS) from server virtual machines to storage array ports and traffic management.

For the full story read on at: http://newsroom.brocade.com/article_print.cfm?article_id=924

Sun x64 Servers and Open Storage Deliver Record-Setting Performance on Enterprise Applications -By Sun Press Relations

sunlogo Sun Microsystems recently announced that they successfully demonstrated a robust performance, price/performance and density of its Open Network Systems with multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. These records highlight the significant infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's Open Network Systems deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage. The results were as follows:

PC-H@300GB
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server delivered a new eight-processor, non-clustered price/performance record on the TPC-H@300GB benchmark, highlighting the data warehousing and decision support system capabilities of the server. The TPC-H benchmark is designed to evaluate the performance of various BIDW and Decision Support Systems (DSS) systems at various database sizes, also referred to as scale factor (SF). Sun's first TPC-H publication using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 beats the competing HP DL785 server by nearly 15 percent on price/performance and uses 20 percent fewer disks(1).

TPC-H@30000GB
A cluster of 43 Sun Fire X4540 storage servers equipped with AMD Opteron processors running the OpenSolaris operating system (OS) set new performance and price/performance records on the TPC-H benchmark at the 30TB scale factor -- the highest scale factor with published results. The Sun Fire X4540 storage servers combined with the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics, was seven times faster and provided 16 times better price/performance than the only other posted result on the HP Superdome(2). Sun's solution consumed only 1/3 the power in less than 1/6 the floor space of the HP system, while delivering a fully mirrored storage pool with almost 1,000 fewer disks, significantly reducing management costs and complexity(3).

SPECmail2009
The Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System propelled the Sun Fire X4275 server, powered by two Intel Xeon X5570 processors, to a new world record on SPECmail2009 benchmark, a test designed to simulate real-world corporate e-mail environments and measure a system's ability to serve e-mail using industry-standard protocols(4). The Sun Fire X4275 server, running Java System Messaging Server 6.2 and the Solaris 10 OS, with two Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage Systems, supported 1/3 more users using approximately half the number of disk drives, compared to competitive systems using direct attached storage.

For the story read on at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-07/sunflash.20090708.1.xml

Oracle Introduces Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler -By Oracle Press Relations

To help developers quickly and easily design data models for the Oracle® Database, Oracle has introduced the Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. This comprehensive, standalone tool supports logical, relational, multi-dimensional and data type modeling while featuring multi-layered design and generation capabilities to produce conceptual entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) and transform them to relational models. Users can build, extend and modify a model as well as compare with existing designs. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is generally available today and is downloadable from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

Data models are powerful communication aids that are used when initiating projects and consolidating or updating existing projects. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler delivers a spectrum of data and database modeling capabilities spanning:

- Visual entity relationship modeling – Supports both Barker and Bachman notations so developers can switch between models to suit the audience’s needs or create and save different visual displays;

- Forward engineering ERDs to relational models – Transforms all rules and decisions made at the conceptual level to the relational model, where details are further refined and updated;

- Separate relational and physical models – Enables developers to develop a single relational model for different database versions or different databases such as Oracle Database, IBM DB2 V7 and V8 for Linux, UNIX and Windows and OS/390 mainframe, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005; and,

- Full spectrum of physical database definitions – Supports physical definitions such as partitions, roles, and tablespaces for specific database versions for multi-database, multi-vendor support leading to improved developer consistency and productivity.

The new tool integrates seamlessly with Oracle SQL Developer – Oracle’s popular graphical tool for database development – to let developers open and view previously developed designs as well as query, run and write reports against the reporting repository. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is available for all editions of Oracle Database 11g and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The tool is also available for Oracle Database 10g.

For the story read on at: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/020861

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