Press Release
Bus-Tech Announces FiCON Support on The Mainframe Appliance for Storage
New Features Offer Higher Performance and Enhanced Scalability
Burlington, MA - October 23, 2003 - Bus-Tech®,
Inc., a leading supplier of data center connectivity products, announced
significant enhancements to the Mainframe Appliance for Storage
(MAS) today, a tape-on-disk controller for System/390 mainframes.
The new release of the MAS offers: support for FiCON, enhanced scalability
and other high-performance features. MAS in combination with emerging
ATA drive technology, provides a cost effective solution for using
disk for mainframe backup.
The new release of the MAS offers support for FiCON channel connection
to the mainframe. Customers will benefit from FiCON's improved performance,
greater distance from the mainframe while maintaining end-to-end
performance and use of standard fibre channel technology for implementing
data center infrastructure. Additional features will allow the MAS
to scale beyond two petabytes and techniques to quickly retrieve
information on large virtual tape files without having to sequentially
read the "tape" files.
The Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) operates as a tape sub-system
on IBM's System/390 or zSeries mainframes. The MAS connects directly
to System/390 through one or two FiCON or ESCON attachments and
emulates up to 64 IBM tape drives. Applications running under z/OS,
OS/390 or VSE, can attach to one of these drives and use it as they
would a real tape drive. But instead of creating or reading real
tape cartridges the MAS stores application tape files on open system
disk platforms such as IBM's FAStT, Network Appliance NearStor,
Storage Tek's BladeStor and EMC's CLARiiON. Minimal change is required
to support existing applications or operations. The new release
of MAS and FiCON will begin shipping in mid November.
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 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.
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