In "Sun Storage Augments Mainframe Renaissance", Fred Moore, president of Horison Information Strategies, an information strategies consulting firm, has undertaken to write a historical survey of developments in enterprise computing from the mainframe perspective that discusses what the newest mainframe operating system and storage solutions have in store.
Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) 5.0 software is now available. The SAM-QFS environment includes a storage and archive manager along with Sun QFS file system software, which is a high-performance file system, ensuring that data is available at device-rated speeds when requested by one or more users. This latest release offers easier administration features along with more management tools, Solaris feature integration, performance features, scalability features, and more supported storage.
The Sun StorageTek SL3000 Tape Library now offers the Access Expansion Module (AEM) as an option for customers needing higher availability and scalability. The AEM provides users with the ability to non-disruptively service a downed robot in the SL3000 library for increased availability of the library - especially important for customers requiring no downtime in their operations. This new option also has 234 CAP slots for bulk load and unload of media.
New Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (EBS) tiered capacity licenses for Disk Backup Option (DBO) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) have been instituted. These new licenses streamline the tiering and provide a more targeted set of product offerings, Sun reports. With the announcement of these new licenses, Sun has issued a last order date of April 17, 2009, for Sun StorageTek ESB obsolete DBO and VTL options.
This helpful compilation of white papers on the role of tape in storage technology comes from Jay Wallace's blog. Wallace provides brief comments characterizing each of the five papers he cites and includes links to all of them.
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