Announcement:
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 ADSM Symposium at Oxford University : 29 September to 1 October 1999

     'Growing the ADSM solution : Meeting the challenge'


ADSM today ... Tivoli Storage Management tomorrow
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ADSM has evolved significantly since the first release of Version 1
in 1994.  Both Version 2 in 1995 and Version 3 in 1998 brought major
functionality improvements but customer expectations, particularly
with respect to performance, have yet to be fulfilled.

ADSM has been marketed as the storage management product of choice
from the low end to the high.  Those at the high end have seen the
product straining to keep pace with the number and type of computer
systems as well as the explosion in the volume of data that many
companies are faced with handling today, let alone tomorrow.

The recent move of the ADSM product from IBM SSD to Tivoli and the
release of Version 4 in September under the Tivoli brand can be
viewed as reinforcing the ideal that this is truly an enterprise
product.


Focus of the ADSM Symposium
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This symposium aims to provide delegates with an opportunity to
discuss the challenges facing us today in taking ADSM the next step
on the way.  Many of us have well established, large installations
and a wealth of storage management experience.

And yet we still face an uncertain future.  Will ADSM Version 4, and
future releases, enable us to handle the vast quantities of data
that are now common in the enterprise?  What are the bottlenecks and
what can be done?  How can we exploit emerging technologies such as
SAN?

These, and many other questions, can be debated with each other and
with the technical experts from IBM and Tivoli.

There will be an opportunity to see ADSM Version 4 in action.


Organisation
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This event is being organised by Oxford University Computing Services.

For full details, agenda, speakers, call for papers and registration
please see:

        http://ADSM-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Registration is open today : attendance is limited.

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Regards, Sheelagh
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Sheelagh Treweek                   Email: sheelagh.treweek AT oucs.ox.ac DOT uk
Sheelagh Treweek                   Email: sheelagh.treweek AT oucs.ox.ac DOT uk
Oxford University Computing Services           Tel:   +44 (0)1865 273205
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK           Fax:   +44 (0)1865 273275
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