Issue: 1 - Storage Trends and the Value of Solution Assurance

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Datatrend's quarterly TrendSetter e-newsletter, a professional resource supplying the latest and greatest information from experts within the IT industry. In this issue, we focus on Total Solutions with a Storage emphasis. First, we will illustrate the significance of validating solutions in a testing environment before on-site deployment, then explore the most modern developments in Image technology. In our Industry Trends section, we highlight a case study combining these two areas of expertise.

• From the President's Desk
  Stretching IT Budget Dollars (Part One of Three) As economic instability leaves the accounting department guessing, IT departments find their budgets diminishing. Mark Waldrep explores options and offers advice to IT professionals on how to find the greatest value for every dollar spent.
  
  
• The IBM TotalStorage Solution Center:
  An Asset in System Value A fairly recent development, TotalStorage Solution Centers allow testing and experimentation of potential solutions prior to implementation on-site. Kent Winton investigates the goals, the value, and the history of this unique technological asset.
  
  
• Image Is Everything:
  Financial Institutions Embrace Image Benefits Hugh Blackard demonstrates the cutting edge advancements in Image Technology, as he explains the past, the present, and the future in check imaging.
  
  
• Industry Trends Converting Downtime into Productivity:
  A Case Study of Streamlining in the Banking Industry Through one consolidated solution, a leading U.S. financial institution demonstrates the value from the combining of TotalStorage Solution Center testing and check imaging.
  
  
• Software Corner:
  Intelligent Business Management Software that Integrates and Automates In response to the recent Tivoli Product announcements, we are dedicating this issue's Software Corner to explaining the functions and the improvements within Tivoli's software line. Click here for full article...
  
  
• Tech Tip:
  Adding Processes to the Subsystem Resource Controller for better control of your own daemons.
  
  

My, How Times Have Changed... "640K ought to be enough for anybody" Bill Gates, 1981

"But what... is it good for?" Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, pertaining to the development of the microchip, 1968

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Patents Office, 1899