Luminex and SEPATON Partner to Bring Disk-Based Backup and Recovery to Mainframe Environments.SEPATON S2100-ES2 VTL See virtual tape library. Certified for Luminex Channel Gateway 3400 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Luminex Software, Inc, a leading developer of mainframe channel gateway, connectivity and data storage products, and SEPATON, Inc., the leader in high-performance data protection solutions, today announced at Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Fall a partnership to enable mainframe environments to seamlessly implement disk-based backup and recovery without changing their backup policies. The combined, certified solution features the SEPATON([R]) S2100[R]-ES2 virtual tape library A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. (VTL) and Luminex's Channel Gateway[TM] 3400 for direct-to-VTL connectivity for 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. and 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. mainframe users. By combining SEPATON's VTL with Luminex's direct-to-tape mainframe connectivity solutions, mainframe customers are now able to fully share in the benefits of SEPATON's advanced virtual tape system. Industry-leading backup and restore times, scalability to keep pace with data growth, simplified data management, and unparalleled extensibility across the enterprise can be implemented by customers in a mainframe environment using their existing mainframe tape management software, without requiring changes to backup processes. "Luminex provides mainframe customers the ability to leverage the cost and technology advancements of open systems storage for data protection," said Michael Saunders, president, Luminex. "By partnering with SEPATON, we are delivering a certified, data protection solution built on disk-based technology that is unmatched in speed and capacity for the entire enterprise regardless of 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. ." "Our partnership with Luminex expands our market reach into the mainframe world," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of marketing, SEPATON, Inc. "With Luminex's Channel Gateways, all enterprises can now access the advantages offered by our VTL, including flexibility, reliability, high performance and reduced total cost of ownership for the most demanding requirements in data access, recovery, and protection." About Luminex Channel Gateway Luminex has been providing Channel Gateways to Fortune 500 companies for over ten years. With Luminex's Channel Gateways, mainframe customers can now access the technology advancements offered by the open systems storage world of flexibility, reliability, high performance and reduced total cost of ownership for data protection. And with the Channel Gateways, mainframe enterprises can also take advantage of the best enterprise-level encryption solutions available to protect their data at the fabric level, with no impact to 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. cycles (MIPS-less) and no change required to mainframe tape management software. About SEPATON S2100-ES2 Virtual Tape Library The SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library is an intelligent, disk-based backup/restore appliance that appears to backup applications as a standard physical tape library. This intelligent, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. data protection solution significantly reduces storage, management and recovery costs. Its extensible design lets users add advanced features simply by loading a ContentAware[TM] application such as DeltaStor[TM] for data de-duplication See deduplication. or Site2 [TM] for data replication. SEPATON's S2100-ES2 eliminates costly media management tasks, dramatically improves data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , and eliminates risk of tape theft, loss, or corruption due to human error. About Luminex Software, Inc. Luminex develops and markets mainframe channel gateway, connectivity and data storage products. Luminex products and technology are used worldwide by the leading companies in financial, technology, healthcare and other major industries. Luminex's Channel Gateways stream data from mainframe FICON and ESCON channels, at channel speed, to Fibre Channel fabrics and provide the ability to securely encrypt mainframe tape data for backup, archive, and distribution. The Data|WARE[TM] Production CD/DVD product family enables customers to archive and distribute data on CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. media for mainframe and network applications. The Virtual|BLUE[TM] product family provides native connectivity from mainframes to open-systems servers and storage networks. Founded in 1994, Luminex Software, Inc. is headquartered in Riverside, California Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States and is also a focus city of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is named for the nearby Santa Ana River. As of 2006, Riverside had an estimated population of 293,741. with development offices in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , and Beaverton, Oregon. Luminex products are available directly from the company and through partnerships with leading systems integrators and resellers worldwide. Call 1.888.LUMINEX or email us at info@luminex.com for more information, or visit our web site at www.luminex.com. About SEPATON, Inc. SEPATON is enabling companies of any size to comply with demanding data storage and retrieval requirements by changing the rules of data protection. We provide innovative, disk-based solutions that are intelligent, reliable and reduce storage, management and recovery costs. Because the proven SEPATON ContentAware[TM] architecture keeps track of all files and content, it enables faster and more efficient performance of a range of advanced data protection, data retention and data recovery functions. SEPATON's virtual tape library systems dramatically out-perform tape and other disk-based solutions. For additional information call 508-490-7900 or visit www.sepaton.com. SEPATON, SRE SRE SecretarÃa de Relaciones Exteriores (México) SRE Sex and Relationship Education SRE Serum Response Element (biochemistry) SRE Software Reliability Engineering SRe Seychelles Rupee and S2100 are registered trademarks of SEPATON Corporation. ContentAware, Site2 and DeltaStor are trademarks of SEPATON Corporation. Luminex, Channel Gateway, DataWARE and Virtual|BLUE are trademarks of Luminex Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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