Bus-Tech Announces New Enhancements of the Mainframe Appliance for Storage; New Features Offer Higher Performance and Enhanced DR Capabilities.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Today, Bus-Tech(R), Inc., a leading supplier of data center connectivity products, announced significant enhancements to the Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS). This new release of the MAS, a tape-on-disk controller, offers both higher performance and enhanced reliability to deliver improved backup and disaster recovery capabilities. The combination of a faster CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and enhancements to the software architecture, have resulted in the MAS solution exceeding 100MB/s throughput in a 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. to Fibre channel environment. This sets a new standard of price performance benefits for data backup in the data center. The MAS solution in an ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. environment continues to achieve the maximum effective throughput of IBM's ESCON channel. Additionally the MAS FICON solution now conforms to the FICON SB3 protocol standard. This feature provides support for cascading directors allowing the mainframe the ability to communicate through its local director to a remote director to gain access to the remote peripherals. This feature could be used to provide a long-haul connection between production and DR sites. Backup data can be written directly to an open-system disk array at the DR site, as opposed to cutting and sending physical tapes. The DR site is able restore the mainframe files from the local open-system disk array. "There is a significant need for companies to be able to shrink their back up windows and improve recoverability in order for companies to return quickly to their regular business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ," said John Webster Webster, town (1990 pop. 16,196), Worcester co., S Mass., near the Conn. line; settled c.1713, set off from Dudley and Oxford and inc. 1832. The chief manufactures are footwear, fabrics, and textiles. of the Data Mobility Group. "Bus-Tech's new MAS enhancements offer a cost-effective way for customers to seamlessly access applications and data, which reside on the Mainframe, without sacrificing performance, reliability, security or manageability." 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 A device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another; however, the term often refers to devices which are more accurately called "controllers. and platform solutions 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 (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. 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 email to info@bustech.com, or call 800-284-3172 or 781-272-8200. |
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