The SMS framework provided a policy-based storage management solution for large
mainframe computer systems and is an integral part of OS/390 and currently z/OS systems.
Through our alliance with Luminex, our customers no longer need to look beyond StorageTek to meet their growing needs for tier two
mainframe DASD storage as part of their information lifecycle management solution," said Cameron van Orman, StorageTek director of Corporate Alliances at StorageTek.
Mainframes are so reliable that one recently was found carrying out 4,000 transactions per second, despite a stake driven through its central processor.
Mainframes are environment-friendly because energy consumption and resource costs are lower when using a
mainframe than many severs.
We continue to observe that a
mainframe enables storage to be much more efficiently managed than all other platforms.
IBM's new ESS Model 750 is designed to help customers in the midrange leverage many of the reliability and advanced functions of the Enterprise Storage Server while meeting the smaller capacity and price needs of new
mainframe and other system servers.
The data centers, which run IBM ES/9000 [TM]
mainframes, process an average of 14,000 P&C claims daily.
This modern ESCON technology will be integrated into the Channel Gateway product family in the near future to support
mainframe enterprises looking to extend their significant investments in ESCON-based infrastructure.
What is required is an intelligent SAN gateway that sits in the middle of the data path that not only interconnects
mainframes and open systems storage on an interface level, but also on a data level.
While long perceived as the largest, most successful data center
mainframe vendor, IBM has lost that position through an apparent lack of focus.
Therefore, data transfers between
mainframe and open systems processors can potentially take one of three forms:
For that reason, device emulation is not a realistic technology for providing exchanges of data between
mainframes and open systems.
