Roy Satterthwaite, Vice President Marketing, Tools & Technology PeopleSoft, USA
"PeopleSoft believes that together, IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and PeopleSoft solutions can help improve application and data availability, help lower solution costs, and provide the performance and scalability to meet the needs of joint customers."
Bob Madey, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development IBM Tivoli Software, USA
"IBM offers the industry’s most competitive storage portfolio from hardware to software. The announcement of DS8000 and DS6000 are IBM's latest storage technology breakthrough to provide customers with a storage infrastructure for today, and well into the future. This, in combination with IBM Tivoli Software, will provide a seamless solution for both storage management and systems management, helping customers optimize their entire IT investment and truly leverage the value of their data."
"At Mainstar Software Corporation, we're excited about the powerful combination of our Mirroring Solutions Suite: MS/VCR with IBM TotalStorage DS8000. IBM TotalStorage Squadrons promises to bring customers the ultimate infrastructure for mission critical workloads in an on demand world, setting new standards in scalable, high-performance disk storage, and includes many innovative features which are designed to help lower disk infrastructure costs. MS/VCR provides quick access to point-in-time copies made from 'cloned' data.Together, MS/VCR and IBM TotalStorage DS8000 create a cost-effective, efficientsolution for storing andaccessingcritical data."
Sanjay Poonen, Vice President of Strategic Operations VERITAS Software
"The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and the new partitioning capabilities enabled by the Power architecture, in combination with VERITAS' leading software for storage management and data protection, promises great value to customers who are looking for open and flexible storage solutions to meet their current and future storage needs. We are looking forward to working closely with IBM to deliver these valuable capabilities to our customers."
Ulrich Pleiss, Director of Adabas Development Software AG
“The combination of Software AG's high performance database system Adabas and IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and IBM TotalStorage DS6000 promises to bring customers the ultimate infrastructure for mission critical workloads in an on demand world. The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and IBM TotalStorage DS6000 sets new standards in scalable, high-performance, disk storage and includes many innovative features which are designed to help lower disk infrastructure costs.”
"The offering of the DS8100 and DS8300 in conjunction with other TotalStorage products such as Productivity Center, FastT, and the SVC allows enterprises to deliver on the promise of OnDemand storage. The move towards an OnDemand model within the enterprise will facilitate storage tiering and accurate data valuation which will ensureefficient and effective solutionsfor IBM's customers, today and into the future."
Robert Shimp, Vice President, Technology Marketing Oracle Corporation, USA
"Oracle database and applications, together with IBM's Total Storage DS8000 and DS6000, provide a leading infrastructure choice for mission critical workloads in a demanding world by enabling improved application and data availability, lowering solution costs, and by providing the performance and scalability that customers require."
Paul Rivot, IBM Director of Database Servers and Business Intelligence IBM Corporation, USA
"The new DS8000 Storage Server with its advanced virtualization engine logical partitioning capability demonstrates once again IBM storage leadership", said Paul Rivot, IBM Director of Database Servers and Business Intelligence. "Customers using the recently released DB2 Universal Database version 8.2 will now have the ability of creating separate storage partitions that can support on demand specific application and database performance requirements, thus delivering best value to their clients."
Edward M. Broderick, Principal Analyst Robert Frances Group
"This series of storage announcements, and the advent of one family of storage devices, is a shot across the bow to EMC and Hitachi as these three vie for market leadership. It is testimony to IBM's technical/technology prowess that it can so quickly supersede the but six-month young ESS 750 with the DS6000 and still achieve the functionality and price/performance improvements that we see here today."
“With the announcement of the new generation of products, IBM has continued the evolution of their disk storage systems. The TotalStorage DS8000 provides a generational follow-on to the ESS with some very unique capabilities. The potential for value-add with the LPAR capability looks like a great opportunity for customers. The DS6000 is a dual controller storage system that not only provides enterprise-class storage functionality to the open systems market but supports iSeries and mainframes as well in a modular configuration. With the cost and performance from the DS6000, it will be very attractive to customers.”
Anders Lofgren, Vice President BrightStor Storage Management Computer Associates
“In keeping with our long-standing support for IBM systems, CA will provide advanced management capabilities with its BrightStor Intelligent storage management solutions, helping organizations take full advantage of the new TotalStorage DS8000,” said Anders Lofgren, vice president of BrightStor storage management, Computer Associates. “CA will continue to work closely with IBM to ensure that our customers can continue to take advantage of IBM’s cost-effective, high-performance disk storage.”
Thomas J Meehan, Vice President of Advanced Technology Innovation Data Processing
"The growth of real time Internet e-business information is driving up the amount of data stored on mainframe, UNIX, LINUX and LAN servers," said Thomas J. Meehan, Vice President of Advanced Technology, INNOVATION Data Processing. "Clientustomers need higher speed and higher capacity disk storage systems just to be able to keep pace. We expect customerclients will see bringing in the new IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 as a natural evolution, and will have a strong interest in the new technology.”
Herb Jones, Vice President & General Manager of the Mainframe Group Softek
"Softek Storage Solutions Corp. plans to support IBM's TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 by certifying use with our migration and replication solutions, Softek TDMF and Softek Replicator,” said Herb Jones, vice president and general manager of the Mainframe Group, Softek Storage Solutions. "Softek believes that together, these products can help improve application and data availability, help lower solution costs, and provide the performance and scalability to meet the needs of joint customers."
Kathleen Schaub, Vice President of Marketing, Information Technology Solutions Group Sybase, Inc
"As an IBM partner, Sybase anticipates the upcoming release of IBM's new TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 products,” said Kathleen Schaub, vice president of marketing, Information Technology Solutions Group, Sybase, Inc. "The TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 will likely be attractive to Sybase® customers, because its high resiliency can enhance Sybase's new data services solutions, Mirror Activator and Dynamic Archive."
"SyncSort for z/OS will support and exploit the capabilities of the new IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 product by the time it becomes generally available,” said John Reda, Software Services Manager, Syncsort."
