Need a mainframe computer for storage to back up mounds of data from sites
all over the world at high speeds?
IBM claims it has the answer.
Looking to make more inroads in to prop up the tape storage market at a time
when disk-based storage is gaining in popularity, IBM (Quote, Chart) today revealed the IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization
Engine.
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The TS7700. Source: IBM |
Designed for large businesses that store massive amounts of data, the TS7770 speeds data processing on tape systems and boosts disaster-recovery capabilities by duplicating data at a second site through global mirroring.
IBM said in a statement it will push the TS7700’S range up to eight sites,
obviating complete back-ups to each site to cut the costs of hosting
machines at each site.
The TS7700 will find the stored data with a built-in “global awareness”
software tool.
The successor to IBM’s TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS), the TS770O
marries the performance and capacity of the 3592 Tape Drives with
high-performance disks and a new advanced IBM System p server.
The machine supports up to 128 3490E virtual tape drives and up to 500,000
logical volumes, each with a maximum capacity between 1.2 gigabytes to 12GB.
The TS7700 Server also connects up to four FICON
(define) channels, and hooks up to the tape library and tape
drives for back-end tape processing.
When fitted with IBM grid software, the TS7700 can be ported to another
TS7700 to provide peer-to-peer copy utilities between tape over an Internet
connection.
The machine, which will be available Sept. 29 at a starting price of
$493,080, includes policy management to control physical volume pooling,
cache management and dual copy across a grid network.
The news comes a week after IBM rolled out its System Storage TS1120, an encrypted tape drive for businesses of
all size.
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