Marc Strahl

"In order to have a successful migration, EMC mandated the use of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System," says Marc Strahl, the Senior Project Manager in charge of the VERITAS Software solutions at Pfizer.VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager are now standard components of the company's computing environment, which uses mostly Sun workstations and servers.For improved processing, Quick I/O capabilities of the VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle are used on multiple Oracle servers.The dynamic multipathing (DMP) feature in VERITAS Volume Manager made for peace of mind for the team during Pfizer's migration from one manufacturer's disk product to another, involving dozens of terabytes of data on more than 50 servers.The ability of VERITAS Volume Manager to permit data availability during the migration process was reassuring to Strahl."Without redundancy, we could have lost valuable data-data that is as important to us as Wall Street's figures are to its operation," he says.

VERITAS Software's active partnerships with all the major hardware producers allows Pfizer to mix and match its disk hardware with little or no disruptions."This is key, because much of our data is timely and critical to new business and products.Although our first attraction to VERITAS Volume Manager was the product's ability to allow any number of disks on a file system, its device-independence became very important to us during migration," Strahl says."When we migrated to another series of disks, DMP was crucial in preventing data loss.Had we been using another product and lost a path during the process, we could have been out of business due to potential data loss."

VERITAS Volume Manager ensures data availability for major Pfizer divisions, including its pharmaceutical, central research, consumer health care, and financial groups.In addition to gaining increased availability, Pfizer was able to optimize its systems using VERITAS File System, improving both performance and manageability."No other product allows Pfizer to reclaim space and reduce the size of file systems on the fly," says Strahl.
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Strahl spoke of a 25 percent to 30 percent improvement in performance using the Quick I/O component of VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle.
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"VERITAS Software's knowledge of Solaris is invaluable," Strahl says, "To me, the VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager products are the only show in town."

Performance utilities such as tracing and tasking features also enable the team to better manage its systems.As Strahl says, "VERITAS Software provides rock-solid background support that you would otherwise have to accomplish with additional staff.

"In order to have a successful migration, EMC mandated the use of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System," says Marc Strahl, the Senior Project Manager in charge of the VERITAS Software solutions at Pfizer.VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager are now standard components of the company's computing environment, which uses mostly Sun workstations and servers.For improved processing, Quick I/O capabilities of the VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle are used on multiple Oracle servers.The dynamic multipathing (DMP) feature in VERITAS Volume Manager made for peace of mind for the team during Pfizer's migration from one manufacturer's disk product to another, involving dozens of terabytes of data on more than 50 servers.The ability of VERITAS Volume Manager to permit data availability during the migration process was reassuring to Strahl."Without redundancy, we could have lost valuable data,data that is as important to us as Wall Street's figures are to its operation," he says.

VERITAS Software's active partnerships with all the major hardware producers allows Pfizer to mix and match its disk hardware with little or no disruptions."This is key, because much of our data is timely and critical to new business and products.Although our first attraction to VERITAS Volume Manager was the product's ability to allow any number of disks on a file system, its device-independence became very important to us during migration," Strahl says."When we migrated to another series of disks, DMP was crucial in preventing data loss.Had we been using another product and lost a path during the process, we could have been out of business due to potential data loss."

VERITAS Volume Manager ensures data availability for major Pfizer divisions, including its pharmaceutical, central research, consumer health care, and financial groups.In addition to gaining increased availability, Pfizer was able to optimize its systems using VERITAS File System, improving both performance and manageability."No other product allows Pfizer to reclaim space and reduce the size of file systems on the fly," says Strahl.
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Strahl spoke of a 25 percent to 30 percent improvement in performance using the Quick I/O component of VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle.
...
"VERITAS Software's knowledge of Solaris is invaluable," Strahl says, "To me, the VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager products are the only show in town."

Performance utilities such as tracing and tasking features also enable the team to better manage its systems.As Strahl says, "VERITAS Software provides rock-solid background support that you would otherwise have to accomplish with additional staff.

"In order to have a successful migration, EMC mandated the use of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System," says Marc Strahl, the Senior Project Manager in charge of the VERITAS Software solutions at Pfizer.VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager are now standard components of the company's computing environment, which uses mostly Sun workstations and servers.For improved processing, Quick I/O capabilities of the VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle are used on multiple Oracle servers.The dynamic multipathing (DMP) feature in VERITAS Volume Manager made for peace of mind for the team during Pfizer's migration from one manufacturer's disk product to another, involving dozens of terabytes of data on more than 50 servers.The ability of VERITAS Volume Manager to permit data availability during the migration process was reassuring to Strahl."Without redundancy, we could have lost valuable data-data that is as important to us as Wall Street's figures are to its operation," he says.

VERITAS Software's active partnerships with all the major hardware producers allows Pfizer to mix and match its disk hardware with little or no disruptions."This is key, because much of our data is timely and critical to new business and products.Although our first attraction to VERITAS Volume Manager was the product's ability to allow any number of disks on a file system, its device-independence became very important to us during migration," Strahl says."When we migrated to another series of disks, DMP was crucial in preventing data loss.Had we been using another product and lost a path during the process, we could have been out of business due to potential data loss."

VERITAS Volume Manager ensures data availability for major Pfizer divisions, including its pharmaceutical, central research, consumer health care, and financial groups.In addition to gaining increased availability, Pfizer was able to optimize its systems using VERITAS File System, improving both performance and manageability."No other product allows Pfizer to reclaim space and reduce the size of file systems on the fly," says Strahl.
...
Strahl spoke of a 25 percent to 30 percent improvement in performance using the Quick I/O component of VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle.
...
"VERITAS Software's knowledge of Solaris is invaluable," Strahl says, "To me, the VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager products are the only show in town."

Performance utilities such as tracing and tasking features also enable the team to better manage its systems.As Strahl says, "VERITAS Software provides rock-solid background support that you would otherwise have to accomplish with additional staff.

"In order to have a successful migration, EMC mandated the use of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System," says Marc Strahl, the Senior Project Manager in charge of the VERITAS Software solutions at Pfizer.VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager are now standard components of the company's computing environment, which uses mostly Sun workstations and servers.For improved processing, Quick I/O capabilities of the VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle are used on multiple Oracle servers.The dynamic multipathing (DMP) feature in VERITAS Volume Manager made for peace of mind for the team during Pfizer's migration from one manufacturer's disk product to another, involving dozens of terabytes of data on more than 50 servers.The ability of VERITAS Volume Manager to permit data availability during the migration process was reassuring to Strahl."Without redundancy, we could have lost valuable data-data that is as important to us as Wall Street's figures are to its operation," he says.

VERITAS Software's active partnerships with all the major hardware producers allows Pfizer to mix and match its disk hardware with little or no disruptions."This is key, because much of our data is timely and critical to new business and products.Although our first attraction to VERITAS Volume Manager was the product's ability to allow any number of disks on a file system, its device-independence became very important to us during migration," Strahl says."When we migrated to another series of disks, DMP was crucial in preventing data loss.Had we been using another product and lost a path during the process, we could have been out of business due to potential data loss."

VERITAS Volume Manager ensures data availability for major Pfizer divisions, including its pharmaceutical, central research, consumer health care, and financial groups.In addition to gaining increased availability, Pfizer was able to optimize its systems using VERITAS File System, improving both performance and manageability."No other product allows Pfizer to reclaim space and reduce the size of file systems on the fly," says Strahl.
...
Strahl spoke of a 25 percent to 30 percent improvement in performance using the Quick I/O component of VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle.
...
"VERITAS Software's knowledge of Solaris is invaluable," Strahl says, "To me, the VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager products are the only show in town."

Performance utilities such as tracing and tasking features also enable the team to better manage its systems.As Strahl says, "VERITAS Software provides rock-solid background support that you would otherwise have to accomplish with additional staff.