Abstract: A storage management system for managing, in a computer system, access to a storage area for storing data, the computer system includes: a storage system that provides the storage area; a host computer system that mounts the storage area of the storage system via a network; and a maintenance system that performs maintenance for the storage area of the storage system, the storage management system includes: a mounting decision module that decides, according to a preestablished maintenance schedule, whether the host computer system is currently mounting the storage area of the storage system; a maintenance instruction module that instructs the maintenance system to execute the scheduled maintenance when the mounting decision module decides that the host computer system is not currently mounting the storage area; a host-on detecting module that detects a boot of the host computer system; a maintenance decision module that decides whether the maintenance system is currently performing the maintenance for the stor

Abstract: A first cartridge and a second cartridge are detachably mounted in a housing of the image-forming device. The first cartridge is formed thicker than the second cartridge in a thickness direction orthogonal to a mounting direction of the first and second cartridges. The housing has a cartridge-accommodating section that accommodates the first and second cartridges. The cartridge-accommodating section includes first and second accommodating sections that are disposed continuously along the mounting direction and that are partly displaced with respect to each other in the thickness direction. The second accommodating section is disposed upstream of the first accommodating section with respect to the mounting direction and is formed thicker than the first cartridge and thinner than both the first and second cartridges together when the first and second cartridges are accommodated in the cartridge-accommodating section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique of controlling cache operation on a node device in a computer system that enables transmission and receipt of data between clients and a storage device via the node device. In accordance with a first control method, the data stored in the storage device includes attribute data, as to whether or not the data is cacheable. This application enables the node device to relay non-cacheable data without process of the cache. In accordance with a second control method, the node device encrypts the data when caching the data in the disk. In accordance with a third control method, non-cacheable data is transmitted and received directly without going through the node device. These applications enable the cache in the node device to be restricted, and thereby ensure security.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a computer system and virus-scan method that are capable of full-scanning the logical volume of a SUTOSEN PC with high frequency while limiting the number of virus-scan devices. A computer system including a primary volume storing data from a personal computer, a snapshot volume storing the status of the primary volume at a given point in time, and a save destination volume storing an updated memory area within the primary volume as information on an updated block address reflected in a bitmap, the updated block address corresponding to a memory area within the primary volume, wherein the computer system detects only an updated file in the primary volume from the snapshot volume and the save destination volume, creates an updated volume for storing a relevant updated file, and thereby executes a virus-scan on the updated volume.

Abstract: For a computer system that includes a storage system and a management computer, the storage system includes a first storage area, for storing data used by a computer connected to the storage system, and a second storage area, for storing a duplicate of the data included in the first storage area. The management computer includes first management information, for managing the frequency at which the data in the first storage area are copied. When the management computer receives a notification indicating the first storage area has been unmounted from another computer, the management computer employs the first management information for determining whether the data in the first storage area should be copied. Then, when the data should be copied, the first storage area is mounted on the computer and the data in the first storage area are copied to the second storage area.

Abstract: There is provided a graphical user interface that is displayed within one screen of a display device. The graphical user interface includes a matrix-shaped display area that is partitioned along a first axis by types of content and partitioned along a second axis by units of time. Items of information on the content that is processed within a specified unit of time are displayed within the matrix-shaped display area, closed together along the second axis.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moving image creating apparatus for creating moving image data using a plurality of images, the moving image creating apparatus including: template file storage means for storing a plurality of template files each of which holds a plurality of component templates for accommodating an image each; selection means for selecting any one of the plurality of template files stored in the template file storage means; component metadata analysis means for analyzing metadata about each of the plurality of images; component template metadata analysis means for analyzing metadata about each of the plurality of component templates in the selected template file; and image placement means for placing the images into the component templates of the selected template file in accordance with the analyzed metadata about the images and the analyzed metadata about the component templates.

Abstract: Provided is an information system for preserving data of a storage device in a computer that repeats the connection to and disconnection from a communication network. The computer acquires data to be written into the storage device and manages the update status of the storage device, transfers the data written into the storage device to the storage controller independent from the writing of data into the storage device when the computer is in a communicable state with the storage controller, and discontinues the transfer of data written into the storage device to the storage controller and manages the transfer status when the computer is not in a communicable state with the storage controller.

Abstract: The invention enables the control of the information in a storage unit in a user terminal, prevents data from leaking to unauthorized users and protects information in the user terminal. A management OS manages the input/output to/from a user work OS in the user terminal, identifies a control-triggering condition set by a management server, controls the information in the storage unit storing the user work OS-related information so that information leakage can be prevented, and it also backs up the user work OS-related information to the storage apparatus using the user work OS input/output information.

Abstract: In this video delivery device including: a storage device storing key frame information including a key frame number included in a contents file and offset from the beginning of a file; and a delivery control unit, which executes delivery in a predetermined cycle, the delivery control unit refers to the key frame information cycle by cycle in executing the trick play, and transmits the key frame having the offset closest to the delivery time among the key frames included in the contents file.

Abstract: A hydrosilylation inhibitor comprising a reaction product of (1) a titanium compound having an alkoxy group in its ligand, and (2) an organosilicon compound having at least one hydrogen atom bonded to silicon atom per molecule is provided. This hydrosilylation inhibitor exhibits inhibitory activity for catalytic activity of a PGE (platinum group element)-bearing hydrosilylation catalyst in an oxygen atmosphere of up to 100 ppm and/or a moisture atmosphere of up to 100 ppm. By using the present invention, catalytic function of the hydrosilylation catalyst is reliably inhibited in the absence of oxygen and moisture while the same catalytic function is easily provided in the presence of the oxygen or the moisture.

Abstract: In an environment where there is a possibility that the user connects from a plurality of blade PCs to the storage, the present invention prevents the data destruction by realizing the exclusive control of the storage device. The storage connection from a blade PC which was possible to connect until now is made to be impossible by that the management server newly generates and sets to the storage device the connection information between the storage device which the blade PC keeps. Further, by sending the newly generated connection information to the other blade PC the connection from that blade PC becomes possible.

Abstract: A management device selects a storage device having a plenty of unallocated storage regions, selects a target using a port having a small allocation quantity from the storage device targets, and allocates the target, an initiator, and a storage region. When the number of targets and the allocated storage regions prepared by the storage device is within a predetermined number, the storage device manages the storage device as an allocation candidate. When the predetermined number is exceeded, the exceeding one is excluded from the allocation candidate. When the number of storage devices excluded from the allocation candidate has reached a certain number, the management device manages a new storage device and a new storage region as an allocation candidate.

Abstract: A storage management system for managing, in a computer system, access to a storage area for storing data, the computer system includes: a storage system that provides the storage area; a host computer system that mounts the storage area of the storage system via a network; and a maintenance system that performs maintenance for the storage area of the storage system, the storage management system includes: a mounting decision module that decides, according to a preestablished maintenance schedule, whether the host computer system is currently mounting the storage area of the storage system; a maintenance instruction module that instructs the maintenance system to execute the scheduled maintenance when the mounting decision module decides that the host computer system is not currently mounting the storage area; a host-on detecting module that detects a boot of the host computer system; a maintenance decision module that decides whether the maintenance system is currently performing the maintenance for the stor

Abstract: For a computer system that includes a storage system and a management computer, the storage system includes a first storage area, for storing data used by a computer connected to the storage system, and a second storage area, for storing a duplicate of the data included in the first storage area. The management computer includes first management information, for managing the frequency at which the data in the first storage area are copied. When the management computer receives a notification indicating the first storage area has been unmounted from another computer, the management computer employs the first management information for determining whether the data in the first storage area should be copied. Then, when the data should be copied, the first storage area is mounted on the computer and the data in the first storage area are copied to the second storage area.

Abstract: A backup method in a storage-centric system includes at least one storage device including a disk as a memory device and a backup disk as a destination for data backup of the disk; computers having a main memory device; and at least one backup server for performing a process to backup data onto the backup disk. The disk, the storage device, the computers and the backup server communicate with one another via networks, at least among which data is sent and received via a communication protocol based on iSCIS. Each computer determines by itself whether or not there is any access to the computer, and as a result of the determination, if it is determined that there is no access to the computer, the computer stores memory images that are data stored on the main memory device onto the disk, and then powers off the computer by itself. Then, the backup server backs up the data stored on the disk onto the backup disk.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a display unit; a communication unit for carrying out a communication with an external apparatus; a reproduction unit for reproducing a content; and a control unit for executing control to change a predetermined display screen appearing on the display unit on the basis of whether or not the content being reproduced by the reproduction unit is a content acquired through the communication unit.

Abstract: A computer system can always execute processing under the same environments not depending on the terminal device that is directly used by the user, no matter where the client used by the user is, and no matter what device is used. In the computer system, one of plural computer PCBAs that do not install a hard disk device therein is selected from the terminal device, remotely controllable environments are constituted, and data is read and written from the hard disk device which are coupled to all of the computer PCBAs over a network that is used by the user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit; an operation input unit for receiving an operation input; a communication unit for carrying out a communication with an external apparatus; a reproduction unit for reproducing a content; and a display control unit for executing control to display first information on a user owning the external apparatus in a first area of the display unit and display information on the content in a second area of the display unit when the reproduction unit reproduces the content. When an operation input is entered to the operation input unit in order to select the first information, the control unit executes control to display the first information or second information on the user owning the external apparatus in the second area in place of the information on the content.

Abstract: In a storage apparatus recording the writing operation of data as journal information, it was necessary to fully overwrite the data to be newly written over the previously written data in order to reduce the journal information. Further, when journal information is reduced, it was not possible to perform accurate recovery in incremental steps. Journal information is separated into journal data information in block units, and journal log information including map information for referring to such journal data information, and this is stored in a journal storage area. When there is journal log information in which block contents of the journal data information coincide, the map information of the new journal log information is rewritten to refer to a block in which the contents to be referred to by the map information of the old journal log information coincide.