Abstract: To provide a resin composition having highly balanced properties of fluidity, impact resistance, dimensional stability, rigidity, heat-resistant rigidity, electrical conductivity, coating adhesion and appearance, which properties are required as a thermoplastic resin material for producing automobile exterior parts, and being excellent in retention stability, and a thermoplastic resin composition for producing automobile exterior parts obtained by molding the resin composition followed by electrostatic coating.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to prevent distribution of a storage range to a volume from an inappropriate disk drive comparing with use of the volume as a result of an automatic extension of a volume capacity. A computer system has a storage system including a physical storage device, a host computer, and a management computer. The storage system includes a plurality of kinds of physical storage devices physically dividing into two segments or more the volume and records as constitution information the correspondence between each segment and the volume using the segment. And the storage system records the kind of physical storage device to be allocated to the volume and selects the physical storage device according to the kind of stored physical storage device for allocation of the segment when the host computer performs an I/O access to the volume.

Abstract: The management server includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the configuration information and performance information of the storage apparatus and the host computer respectively at different timings, and a comparison unit for comparing, when a configuration change of the storage apparatus is commanded externally, a performance value of components in the storage apparatus subject to the configuration change and a performance value of components in a connection relationship with the components. The acquisition unit determines that an unknown component has been added in the storage apparatus when the difference in the performance values compared with the comparison unit is of a certain level or greater, and reacquires configuration information from the storage apparatus.

Abstract: A storage system allocates a data storage area in response to an access request from a first computer if the capacity of a first physical storage device configuring a first logical storage area, provided to the first computer, is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold. The storage system associates the first logical storage area with another physical storage device, which is different from the first physical storage device associated with a second logical storage area provided to the first computer and a second computer, and allocates a data storage area from the another physical storage device if the capacity of the first physical storage device associated with the first logical storage area exceeds the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A computer system including a copy source volume and a copy target volume which may be selectably PAIRED or SPLIT. User management information stores: an entry indicating that a first user is permitted to effect a PAIR operation and a PATH operation; and, an entry indicating that a second user is permitted to effect a PATH operation. Operation management information indicates permitted PATH and PAIR operations in relation to each user and a volume's PAIR or SPLIT status, and stores: an entry indicating that the first user is permitted to effect the PAIR operation in which the PAIR status is PAIR, or is SPLIT WITH BACKUP DISABLED; and, an entry indicating that the second user is permitted to effect the PATH operations in which the PAIR status is SPLIT WITH BACKUP ENABLED. PAIR management information stores the PAIR status and the BACKUP ENABLED or DISABLED status.

Abstract: Aimed at reducing the area of a protective circuit in a semiconductor device provided therewith, a semiconductor device of the present invention has a first-conductivity-type well, a plurality of first diffusion layers formed in the well, a plurality of second diffusion layers formed in the well, and a diffusion resistance layer formed in the well, wherein the first diffusion layers have a second conductivity type, and are connected in parallel with each other to an input/output terminal of the semiconductor device; the second diffusion layers are arranged alternately with a plurality of first diffusion layers, and are connected to a power source or to the ground; the diffusion resistance layer has a second conductivity type, and is located in adjacent to any of the plurality of second diffusion layers; the diffusion resistance layer is connected to the input/output terminal of the semiconductor device, while being arranged in parallel with the first diffusion layers, and connects the internal circuit and the

Abstract: A management method for a cache memory of a storage apparatus including: at least one volume for storing data to be accessed from a computer via a network; and a cache memory, to which an area for holding the data to be stored in said at least one volume is allocated for every said at least one volume, including the steps of: referring to a relation between predetermined volumes; and allocating an area, in which the data to be stored in a volume are held, to said volume on the basis of the relation between said volumes.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adjuvant that is a hydroxy unsaturated fatty acid or a derivative thereof, as well as a vaccine preparation containing the adjuvant as a constituent.

Abstract: A volume management system, a managing computer, a host, and a volume management method being capable of regulating the authorities of users and avoiding misoperations are provided. The volume management system comprises a storage having volumes served as a storage region, a managing computer, and a plurality of hosts used by users obtaining an operation authority over the volume. Two or more users can use an identical volume. Upon obtaining an operation content of one user for at least one of the volumes over which two or more users have the operation authority, the managing computer determines from an attribute of the volume and the operation authority of the two or more users over the volume whether the operation content is executable. When the operation content is not executable, the operation content is restrained.

Abstract: The computer system includes: a first storage system having devices that are various components for storing data transmitted from a host computer; a second storage system having devices that are various components for storing data transmitted from the first storage system; and a management apparatus that manages the first and second storage systems. The management apparatus includes a storage unit that stores configuration information, performance information and threshold values used for performance management regarding the devices in the first and second storage systems connected to the management apparatus; and a setting section that adopts and sets, when internal management information and data are copied from the first storage system to the second storage system, threshold values assigned to the devices in the first storage system to the devices in the second storage systems.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for computing the appropriate capacity of a journal volume based on the operating patterns of backup and recovery performed by the user, and composing a recovery system that enables recovery to be performed in a short time using journals.

Abstract: A polyolefin composite material comprising a polyolefin-based resin, an onium-modified low molecular weight polyolefin-based resin containing an organic onium group as a functional group and having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 30,000, and a layered clay mineral.

Abstract: This invention provides a system including a computer and a storage-subsystem comprising at least either a first storage area for storing data sent from the computer or a second storage area to be associated with the first storage area, for storing replicated data of data stored in the first storage area. This system includes a replication processing status referral unit for referring to a replication processing status of data of the first storage area and the second storage area to be associated, and an output unit for outputting first performance information concerning data I/O stored in the first storage area, and outputting second performance information concerning data I/O stored in the second storage area together with the first performance information when the replicated data is being subject to replication processing from the first storage area to the second storage area as a result of referring to the replication processing status.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for computing the appropriate capacity of a journal volume based on the operating patterns of backup and recovery performed by the user, and composing a recovery system that enables recovery to be performed in a short time using journals.

Abstract: A tube for a heat exchanger is constructed of a single plate having one end portion and the other end portion in a width direction perpendicular to a tube longitudinal direction. The single plate having opposite first and second wall surfaces is bent to have a protruding portion at a position adjacent to the one end portion in the width direction and a contact portion adjacent to the protruding portion in the width direction. The protruding portion is configured to continuously extend in the longitudinal direction and to have a protruding tip on a side of the first wall surface, and the protruding tip contacts the first wall surface of a portion along the longitudinal direction. The second wall surface at the one end portion and the contact portion contacts the first wall surface at the other end portion and a position near the other end portion, respectively.

Abstract: A discrepancy between a management range of a user on a management computer and a management range of the user in a storage, is detected with respect to a volume held in the storage. Storage management information of the management computer stores a correspondence between an identifier of a volume group, and a identifier of the user. When a plurality of volumes are designated as a managed object of the user, the management computer references the storage management information, and obtains, from the storage, an identifier of the volume group to which the plurality of designated volumes belong. Next, the management computer references the storage management information, and determines whether or not the obtained volume group is in management range of the same user.

Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor apparatus capable of achieving a device having a snap-back resisting pressure of about 5 to 10 V by a self-aligning process. The semiconductor apparatus includes two or more sub-gates placed next to a main gate at a predetermined interval, and low concentration layers placed continuously from the ends of source/drain layers to near the end of the main gate, having a potential type same as that of the source/drain layers, and having an impurity concentration lower than that of the source/drain layers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modifier for resins which comprises a dispersant (I) or a coatability improver (II) comprising a modified polyolefin (A) and a filler in combination, the modified polyolefin (A) containing a hydrophobic group comprising a polyolefin (a) having a number average molecular weight of 1,500 to 100,000 and 0.2 to 10 double bonds per 1,000 carbons at the molecular terminus and/or within the molecule, and a hydrophilic group containing at least one onium base (b), and a number average molecular weight per (b) being 750 to 50,000.

Abstract: A discrepancy between a management range of a user on a management computer, and a management range of the user in a storage, is detected with respect to a volume held in the storage. Storage management information of the management computer stores a correspondence between an identifier of a volume group, and an identifier of the user. When a plurality of volumes are designated as a managed object of the user, the management computer references the storage management information, and obtains, from the storage, an identifier of the volume group to which the plurality of designated volumes belong. Next, the management computer references the storage management information, and determines whether or not the obtained volume group is in the management range of the same user.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a plurality of virtual storage systems coupled to the host computer, a storage system coupled to the plurality of virtual storage systems, and a management computer. The storage system includes storage areas provided as volumes to the host computer. Each of the virtual storage systems provides virtual volumes corresponding to the volumes to the host computer. The host computer disperses a plurality of data I/Os containing data to be written in one of the volumes to the virtual volumes of a plurality of paths reaching the one of the volumes at a determined ratio. The management computer calculates a threshold value of a performance value to be set in the virtual volume of each of the paths to determine whether to generate an alert based on the predetermined ratio. Thus, performance of the computer system is properly managed.