COPS Monitoring Bulletin Newsletter #29

Here are just a few Highlights of our $2 Million Technical Upgrades: The project tookmore than a year to complete andwas carefully executed without any disruption to your service. In good Company AL STATION TECHNOLOGY These upgrades will keep us ahead of the rapidly changing technology curve and will provide the highest reliability, best security, fastest processing, and greater storage. These systems are alsomore easily maintained and scaled as we continue to grow. TM 3 What does COPS Monitoring have in common with these companies: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, the New York Stock Exchange, NASA, US DoD, and the US Navy Nuclear Submarine fleet? They all run on Linux. The Linux operating system was designed from the ground up to handle big data and cloud workloads. Linux is known for its security, scalability, and because its open source, it plays well with others. In a press release, Unix champion IBM announced it is investing $1B in new Linux and open source technologies. 2 COPS Monitoring and 100% of the Fortune Global 100 companies run their critical systems in a VMware environment. VMware is the industry standard and global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure with more than 500,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune Global 100 companies. By virtualizing, critical processes are not limited to any one physical server or location. Runningapplicationscanbemoved fromoneserver toanotherwithout interruption, which means zero downtime for switch-over and maintenance. 1 Cisco is the global leader and considered to be the gold standard in state- of-the-art routing and switching equipment. Each of our Cisco UCS stacks contains multiple blade servers and is equipped with multiple power supplies and Ethernet ports, which means that a single stack can sustain multiple points of failure without any outages. Then, one stack with all of its redundant servers, power supplies, and network adaptors is backed up by another stack that also has the same internal redundancy. 3 Moved our TM monitoring platform from physical IBM AIX mainframes to redundant stacks of Cisco 1 blade servers in a FlexPod configuration • Our Cisco FlexPod 2 configuration consists of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Unified Fabric Technology (Nexus), and NetApp Fabric Attached Storage (FAS) – [FAS is a combined storage technology that uses Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS)] 3 Moved all of our mission critical processes onto the Cisco UCS stacks; operating a virtual VMware environment 3 Migrated Generations from a Unix operating system to Linux 3 3 Added 20 terabytes of clustered NetApp Fabric Attached Storage (FAS) for alarm signals and data 3 Expanded our automated tape library backup systems 3 Connected all these services with Cisco firewalls, switches, and other network devices 3 Duplicated the mission-critical equipment and business services with the same UCS/Linux/FlexPod technology in the SuperNAP data center (more info about the SuperNap at supernap.com)