IBM XIV Able To Regenerate Data Loss Due To Disk Failure
Minneapolis, MN- December 9, 2008 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation provider, is one of ten Certified IBM Business Partners in the United States to offer IBM’s XIV, a self healing data storage consolidation solution. IBM’s XIV is able to repair and restore data loss due to disk failure within approximately thirty minutes, versus the hours or days needed by alternative solutions.
Evolving Solutions is offering IBM XIV immediately for client demonstrations in its Business Partner Innovation Center (BPIC).
“It is essential to have a system that can effectively store, consolidate and protect mission critical data,” stated Jaime Gmach, President of Evolving Solutions. “We have seen a need for IBM’s XIV Storage Consolidation System as high volumes of data are outpacing an IT department’s ability to store and manage the data by traditional means. By the introduction of the XIV, IBM is providing another option for businesses to store and protect their data.”
DeepSpar Data Recovery Systems, leading analyst in disaster r,ecovery estimates disk failure accounts for 38 percent of data loss incidents in businesses across the United States each year. Disk failure for these companies results in data loss that can derail large, costly projects.
Server and storage consolidation provider Evolving Solutions partners with IBM to share green IT technologies designed to lower the data center costs of any type of company
Minneapolis, MN May, 12, 2008 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation provider, is ensuring firms reach a new competitive advantage by sharing revolutionary new energy efficient and cost effective IT technologies this week at an exclusive breakfast briefing.
Evolving Solutions and IBM are excited would like announce that they will hosting “The Road To A Cost Efficient Data Center” this Thursday, May 15th at the Double Tree in Minneapolis.
This informative seminar will share new cost effective ways that businesses can effectively lower the costs of running their data centers while still achieving a competitive advantage.
Join Evolving Solutions as they also share how some early adopter have already experienced a cost savings of up to 40% by implementing green IT practices in their businesses.
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Expert insights offered in article and gathered in exclusive survey, offer insights on data and storage consolidation that are resonating throughout the IT industry.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 8, 2007 — Evolving Solutions, a leading data backup and recovery and storage consolidation provider is sharing crisp new thoughts on data backup with the article and corresponding survey “Is Tape Dead?”
“Is Tape Dead?” , penned by Evolving Solutions Director of Professional Services Chris Taylor, delves into the current and evolving mind swell surrounding data backup and recovery. By shining a light on the very realistic pros and cons to both tape and disc storage techniques, Taylor helps solidify a creative and practical approach to data storage that includes both.
“One way to address both the need for faster restores and a solution for longer term storage and archiving of data is to utilize both tape and disk,” states Taylor in the article. “For example, critical backup data can be stored on disk for rapid restore, a copy of the critical data can be copied to tape, and less critical data can be staged to disk and then written directly to tape. Using this method, less critical data can be staged to tape over time while mission critical data is available for rapid restore.”
ReplicatorX will allow Evolving Solutions customers to achieve migration from any data storage device to any storage device, regardless of brand or physical distance
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading storage consolidation and server virtualizaton provider, has announced its new offering of ReplicatorX data replication solutions in collaboration with partner NetApp.
“NetApp’s ReplicatorX solutions are revolutionary in the sense that our customers will now be able to share data between any brand of data storage devices, whether they reside in the same room, state, or even country,” states Chris Taylor, Evolving Solutions Director of Professional Services and Solution Sales.
Before ReplicatorX, data migration could be a financially daunting trial for firms of any size. Larger firms would face the challenge of sharing data between globally spread servers. Smaller firms, meanwhile, would face the hurdle of making costly upgrades to secondary storage devices to sync with the primary server.
ReplicatorX will minimize financial concerns of smaller firms by allowing data to easily synch between large, primary storage devices to smaller, less expensive devices, while simultaneously making the concerns of sharing data on a global scale a thing of the past for larger firms.
Minneapolis, MN, April 11, 2007 – http://www.evolvingsol.com – Evolving Solutions, a leading storage consolidation and server virtualization provider, is proud to have been named a finalist in the upcoming IBM Beacon Awards.
Evolving Solutions, who won the 2006 Beacon Award for the “Best IBM TotalStorage® On Demand Solution,” is this year competing in the “Best IBM System x™ Solution” category.
“It’s an honor to be named a finalist in the IBM Beacon Awards,” said Jaime Gmach, President & CEO of Evolving Solutions. “There is nothing more prestigious than being recognized by IBM, the true leader in this industry.”
Evolving Solutions was named a finalist based on its “High Performance SQL Database Environment Solution” that was designed for a technology services provider that serves the airline industry.
The “High Performance SQL Database Environment Solution” enabled Evolving Solutions’ customer to cut system configuration times, lower software costs and increase CPU response times.
One year into the engagement, Evolving Solutions has helped its customer level costs for its database layer while providing substantial scalability moving forward.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 22, 2007 - http://www.evolvingsol.com - Evolving Solutions, a leading data on demand and storage/server virtualization expert, is proud to announce that Mike Keeler, Senior Storage Consultant, is approved to teach the IBM authorized content material for the TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) class.
As an Authorized Independent Training Provider (AITP) for IBM Systems, Evolving Solutions is now offering IBM users, and prospective users, expanded opportunities to meet their technical IBM hardware training needs for technology solutions including:
• AIX 5L
• System p, LPAR and Virtualization
• TotalStorage Productivity Center
Evolving Solutions is now offering:
- Technical TotalStorage training from an instructor with extensive hands-on IBM System experience, and
- Authorized IBM courses taught at the Evolving Solutions Hamel, MN, state of the art, training facility
“Evolving Solutions is limiting attendance of the TotalStorage Productivity training courses to an intimate group of 7 in order to provide highly individualized IBM product instruction,” said Keeler.
Minneapolis, MN, December 14, 2006 – http://www.evolvingsol.com/ - Evolving Solutions, an IT storage architect providing data on demand, storage virtualization and disaster recovery solutions, is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Evolving Solutions offers IT storage architecture services and solutions to help businesses optimize their storage environment for better efficiency and a greater total cost of ownership. As Evolving Solutions has grown in the last ten years, co-founders Jaime Gmach and Rebecca Olson have watched the IT storage industry also evolve.
“It’s amazing to reflect on how much we have achieved in the last 10 years,” said Jaime Gmach, President and CEO. “We have grown Evolving Solutions from a husband and wife duo into a $60 Million company with 49 employees. Not only has Evolving Solutions been consistently named one of the fastest growing companies in the Twin Cities, but we have also been recognized as a rapidly growing storage company on a national level.”
At their inception in 1996, Evolving Solutions had many requests for RS6000 hardware and peripherals. Evolving Solutions differentiated itself by providing technical support which today still remains one of its main differentiators. Over the past few years, the IT storage industry has started to focus more and more on storage and server virtualization technology and the related benefits, including greater total cost of ownership and a positive impact on a company’s bottom-line.
Minneapolis, MN, December 7, 2006 — http://www.evolvingsol.com/itxray.html — Evolving Solutions, a data on demand and storage virtualization expert, has launched ITxRAY (SM), a new service designed to provide businesses with a snapshot view and analysis of their current datacenter environment.
Evolving Solutions’ new service “X Rays” businesses’ datacenter environment and provides a detailed inventory of your servers/hosts, storage, applications, services running, and other mission critical data.
“Sometimes, businesses don’t know there’s a problem or that they could be operating more efficiently,” said Chris Taylor, Director of Professional Services and Solution Sales, Evolving Solutions. “Organizations can now come to Evolving Solutions for an ITxRAY like patients would go to a doctor.”
Evolving Solutions uses the in-depth picture provided by ITxRAY to address key business issues faced by today’s CIOs and IT professionals. Properly addressing these issues can reduce overall costs while optimizing and improving service levels for customers and the organization as a whole.
The biggest challenges faced by today’s IT professionals that can be addressed using ITxRAY include:
• Under-utilized Servers & Storage
• Compliance
• RTO/RPO do not meet changing business climates
• Redundant software licenses
• Data retention policies are not enforced or in place at all
• Business Continuity risks
• Servers and clients exposed to security threats and risks
• Inconsistent software & hardware levels
• Unnecessary applications and services running on servers
• Servers/IT assets used for “non-business” related activities
Minneapolis, MN, November 9, 2006 – http://www.evolvingsol.com – Evolving Solutions, a leading IT storage architect providing data on demand and storage consolidation, recently helped mobile communications firm, PeopleNet, address an impending data storage challenge.
PeopleNet offers its customers carrier class uptime. Due to unprecedented growth in recent years, PeopleNet decided to relocate its datacenter to a Tier IV Data Center. PeopleNet evaluated the capabilities of its current storage providers and decided to engage a company with experience in Network Appliance storage and datacenter moves – Evolving Solutions.
“Evolving Solutions understands that a datacenter glitch can mean catastrophe for a company,” said Larry Letsinger, Solutions Sales Executive, Evolving Solutions. “Part of our service is offering the customer peace of mind.”
Due to the critical nature of the data being moved, Evolving Solutions brought in two IT storage architects to backup the data, power off the systems, assist with preparing the systems for the move and bring the systems back on line after the move.
“With everything that was going on it was nice to be able to leave our most important asset in the hands of Evolving Solutions!” Said Jim Lowell, VP of Software at PeopleNet, “Everything went well and we are now enjoying the benefits of our new datacenter in St. Paul.”
Evolving Solutions successfully deploys an IT infrastructure solution to the Minnesota Wild to help IT staff save time and increase productivity
Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN, August 24, 2006 – http://www.evolvingsol.com – Evolving Solutions, a data on demand and server consolidation expert, has become the Preferred Technology Partner of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Minnesota Wild.
Evolving Solutions’ Preferred Technology Partner status comes as a result of its successful design, implementation and optimization of an IT infrastructure solution to help the Minnesota Wild streamline its IT operations.
“The fast-paced and demanding world of professional sports makes it difficult for an IT department to keep up with server/storage operational and maintenance demands,” said Jaime Gmach, President, Evolving Solutions. “Evolving Solutions was able to help the Minnesota Wild’s IT staff eliminate some of those time and productivity constraints.”
Evolving Solutions has designed and deployed a solution to consolidate disparate standalone servers into a highly available, high performance IBM BladeCenter, which runs VMWare to an IBM DS4300 disk storage subsystem via a Storage Area Network (SAN). The Minnesota Wild is using two blades for Ticketmaster transactions and another blade as an Exchange server.
