IBM Launches New and Enhanced Tape and Disk Storage Solutions With Virtualization and Grid Computing Capabilities

IBM Launches New and Enhanced Tape and Disk Storage Solutions With Virtualization and Grid Computing Capabilities

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the next generation of tape solutions for IBM mainframe customers, with significant enhancements to the IBM® Virtualization Engine™ TS7740, an IBM mainframe virtual-tape offering designed to support business continuity, improved tape processing and energy efficiency through Grid connectivity and automated replication. IBM today also debuted additional tape and disk storage offerings for midrange and enterprise organizations.

“IBM introduced the first ever tape storage virtualization product a decade ago,” said Cindy Grossman, vice president, IBM tape storage systems. “Building on this legacy of innovation, IBM today expands its leadership in energy efficient forms of data storage, including tape storage and virtualization solutions, both of which are highlighted in today’s announcement. While others follow, IBM continues to lead in helping customers find the most business-efficient, low-power storage solutions for their information on demand environments.”

As power consumption in data centers becomes an increasing focus for customers, IBM has increased its portfolio of “green” storage solutions across energy efficient technologies, particularly tape storage and virtualization solutions which provide optimal capacity utilization and low-power alternatives.

Building on IBM’s history of innovation in tape virtualization solutions, which help customers optimize capacity utilization, the enhanced IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740 for IBM mainframe environments is designed to provide the ability to automatically duplicate tape data across three data center sites with its Three Site GRID Configuration, helping maintain availability in the event of a disaster. This new capability is designed to enable a Virtual Tape Grid computing environment with global awareness functionality that allows data to reside on TS7740s at three different sites while being easily tracked and accessed when needed. A Two Site GRID Configuration capability is currently available on the TS7740.

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