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At our January meeting, FRUUG member Mark A. Carlson gave a talk on
JiroTM. Based on JavaTM technology,
Jiro technology delivers the storage industry's first intelligent
development and deployment environment
to make storage networks interoperable and manageable.
Developed through the Java Community
ProcessSM program with input from a
group of industry experts,
Jiro technology forms an architecture of components and management services
specific to the needs of storage networks.
For developers, Jiro technology offers a proven environment for
developing management software that can be deployed in diverse,
distributed networks, regardless of underlying operating systems
or hardware. The component-based nature of Jiro technology enables
developers to easily incorporate standard management services into their
applications, allowing them to focus the bulk of their development efforts
on adding high-value functionality instead of building the basic
infrastructure.
For Information Technology (IT) managers and their staffs,
Jiro technology helps simplify storage network management and reduce costs.
The intelligent connectivity inherent in Jiro technology
fosters a greater level of automation throughout the storage network.
Tasks that normally require manual intervention, such as monitoring
available disk space, can be handled gracefully, reliably,
and transparently. Moreover, management applications enabled with
Jiro technology can help companies predict and prevent events which
may interfere with data availability and productive operations.
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