The TS7700 virtual tape solution is the leader of tape storage in the System z environment. This solution continues to evolve with function, performance and capacity to match the growing need for mainframe storage. The TS7700 has always provided means for growth, migration, and change as user...
Over 80% of the Fortune 500 companies around the world continue to rely on proven IBM Z Systems® mainframe technologies for their most critical workloads. With over 50 years of excellence, mainframe continues to provide the highest level of reliability, performance, availability and cost...
Imagine a solution that helps you manage relentless growth of data. Imagine the same simple solution also helping to enable modernization and integration of your mainframe infrastructure. The announcement this week that IBM TS7760 virtual tape systems now offer Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT)...
The Ultrium 8 tape drive is a new product designed for Open Systems backup and archive applications. Ultrium 8 is an LTO Generation 8 standard interchange device. The drive will be able to read tapes written by other Ultrium 8 licensee’s drives, and will be able to write tapes readable by other...
Introduction The IBM TS7700 family is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products for the IBM Z platform . It is a highly scalable, reliable and high performance tape solution to support today's demanding IT environments. The first generation of the TS7700 family (TS7740) was...
IBM TS7700 has been a solid part of IBM Z solutions for over 10 years, supporting z/OS, z/VM, z/TPF and z/VSE. Over 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies around the globe continue to rely on proven IBM Z Systems technologies for their most critical workloads. IBM continues to meet this demand...
The ever expanding and accelerating generation of Big data has made mandatory the usage of more efficient and robust storage filesystems. The data migration across multiple storage mediums is proving to be expensive. There is an inevitable and urgent need to perform inplace data analytics and to...
In my almost 20 years working in the storage industry, I have been deeply engaged in the launch of the LTO tape drive technology, back in 2000 year, as a Manufacturing Engineer; I was in charge of the first LTO tape drive generation product line. Later on, as Offering Manager, in the...
Maximizing Hyperscale DC Revenue & Lifespan with Tape Mike McIntosh & Shawn Nave Problem: Unusable floor space tends to accumulate in older data centers as they are upgraded to more powerful servers and storage that consume more electrical power per rack. If the...
The IBM TS4300 is a new entry/mid-range 3U tape library which starts small and can stack up to 6 expansion 3U modules to fill a full rack. This solves the problem on starting small and scaling as capacity demands grow. Very cool. #EnterpriseStorage #Tapeandvirtualtapestorage