Bus-Tech Announces FICON Connectivity for EMC Centera; New Feature Offers Wider Range of Connectivity Options.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Today, Bus-Tech(R), Inc., a leading supplier of data center connectivity products, announced significant enhancements to the MAS for EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Centera content addressed storage A storage technique from EMC for content that is in its final form (fixed content). CAS assigns an identifier to the files so they can be accessed no matter where they are located. (CAS) by offering support for FICON (FIber CONnector) An IBM mainframe channel introduced with its G5 servers in 1998. Based on the Fibre Channel standard, it boosts the transfer rate of ESCON's half-duplex 17MB/sec to a full-duplex 100MB/sec. connectivity. This enhancement allows greater configuration flexibility for both point-to-point and switched FICON environments. The new release of the MAS for EMC Centera supports FICON channel connection to IBM mainframes Following are the mainframe architectures used in IBM mainframes since the original System/360 introduced in 1964. Year Architecture Model numbers System/360 1964 System/360 2xxx (2020 to 2195) System/370 . Customers will benefit from FICON's improved performance, greater distance capabilities while maintaining end-to-end performance and use of standard fibre channel technology for implementing data center infrastructure. The MAS for EMC Centera supports both FICON and FICON-Express using either single or multi-mode fiber See multimode fiber. . Bus-Tech's MAS-Centera emulates standard IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) tape drives, allowing those applications using tape as their storage medium to be upgraded by writing data to Centera instead, with little-to-no disruption to their current operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . In addition, the MAS-Centera product can reduce the floor space required for tape drives and cartridge storage, reduce personnel costs associated with managing a large tape library and reduce or eliminate the overall number of tape cartridges See cartridge. needed in support of those applications. "Many mainframe customers are in the process of implementing a new FICON infrastructure while some large accounts have already transitioned to a complete FICON environment" stated Roy Sanford, EMC Vice President, Content Addressed Storage.. "Bus-Tech's support of FICON in the MAS-Centera product allows customers to easily deploy Centera to store, protect, and manage mainframe-based fixed content." EMC Centera CAS simplifies management, ensures content authenticity and delivers petabyte-level scalability. The Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) automates and intelligently manages the archiving of data from an IBM (or compatible) mainframe to a Centera system. With this powerful integrated solution, Centera provides a central storage archive that is safe and secure, so customers can utilize those fixed content assets from anywhere at anytime, whether it's for product development, customer transactions or meeting government regulations. "Customers continue to benefit from our improvements to the MAS with support for EMC Centera," said Jim O'Connor Jim O'Connor is an American actor and former host of the show The Secret Life Of.... Jim O' Connor first appeared on the Food Network as the host of "All-American Festivals". He replaced Tyler Florence as host. , Director, Product Marketing for Bus-Tech. "With our product, customers using EMC Centera have safe and secure storage archiving in a central location where content can be accessed from anywhere. This new connection option to the mainframe makes the solution available to a wider customer base and demonstrates Bus-Tech's commitment to staying current with IBM's latest channel technologies." The MAS Centera with FICON connectivity is available immediately. About Bus-Tech, Inc. Bus-Tech, Inc. founded in 1987 is the industry's leading provider of state-of-the-art connectivity solution for the data center to Original Equipment Manufacturers. The company's powerful suite of adapter and platform solution satisfy even the most rugged demands of data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a professionals for high-bandwidth, high-availability, and high-performance connectivity. With more than 15,000 installed sites worldwide, Bus-Tech is a recognized leader in the data center interconnect market. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, the company is privately held with location around the world. For more information about Bus-Tech and its products, please visit the Bus-Tech World Wide Web site at http://www.bustech.com, send e-mail to info@bustech.com or call 800-284-3172 or 781-272-8200. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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