GOV IT

Strategic IT for Government

Monday, December 22, 2003

		“We conducted a very comprehensive evaluation, and Dot Hill’s SANnet was the best performing, most cost-effective solution for our requirements." -- Joseph Anino Technology Director
American Museum of Natural History New York, NY Largest Natural History Museum in the World Located in Central Park in New York City, the American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world with over 32 million specimens and artifacts. It is home to vast collections of insects, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, anthropological artifacts, and more fossil mammals and dinosaurs than any other museum in the world. The museum employs over 200 scientists and has one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere.

Digitize the entire museum collection. They are creating electronic records of archaeologists’ journals and notes for the past 100 years.

	Scalability-need to grow from 1TB to 35TB as entire collection is catalogued Heterogeneous environment using Solaris and NT Cost-effective with high performance

SANnet 4220 storage system and expansion chassis in a heterogeneous storage area network with Sun servers running Solaris and other servers running Windows NT.
	Excellent price/performance ratio Scalable, modular architecture to add capacity with virtually no downtime
SANpath storage networking software
	Ensures continuous data availability through parallel active storage paths Peak performance through load balancing capabilities
SANscape SAN management software
	Powerful easy-to-use GUI Manage SAN from a single console

11:54:42 AM

XML for the rest of us.

"The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns," said BEA's Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. "But our model of the world is documents. It's 'Tell me everything I want to know about this person or this clinical trial.' And those things are not flat, they're complex. Now we have the way to get not only the hospital records and prescriptions but also the doctor's write-ups."

The doctors and bankers will get that, just as the highway patrolmen already do. XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now deliver very real and tangible benefits. For the publishing geeks who started it all, it's a moment to savor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

By the way, Adam Bosworth said a great many other interesting things in his XML 2003 talk. For those of you not inclined to watch this QuickTime clip -- and in particular for the search crawlers -- I would like to enter the following quote into the public record. ... [Jon's Radio]
11:19:14 AM

Jon Udell: "XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now deliver very real and tangible benefits." [Scripting News]
11:17:31 AM