Little Falls, NJ June
9, 2003 - INNOVATION Data Processing, Inc. today announced that all
its enterprise software solutions are currently shipping with support
for the new T9840B direct zServer FICON channel-attach tape drive introduced
this week by StorageTek.
According to the company all components of its FDR Storage Management
Suite, including FDR(Fast Dump Restore), ABR, FDRINSTANT, and ABRINSTANT for non-disruptive z/OS storage protection, its
FDR/UPSTREAM Storage Management Suite including the FDRSOS and FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS
non-disruptive storage management solutions for UNIX, Linux and Windows,
DAS, SAN, LAN and NAS
distributed storage, along with S/390 UNIX and Linux on zServer storage,
work with the new FICON T9840B drives.
Additionally, the company announced its FATSCOPY solution, for auto migrating
data from older tape media like 3480/3490E cartridges to new large capacity
cartridge volumes such as the T9840B while updating the customer's
tape management system (CA1, IBM-RMM) to match, also fully supports the
new StorageTek FICON attach tape drives.
"The FICON-attach StorageTek T9840B tape drive," according
to Thomas J. Meehan, INNOVATION Vice President, Advanced Technology, "is
an absolutely imperative addition to maintaining a viable business continuance
plan." Adding, "Customers need high-speed, high-capacity tape
to keep pace, as Internet and real-time e-business applications drive
up the amount of data stored on mainframe, Linux, UNIX,
Windows and LAN servers."
"The StorageTek T9840B FICON-attach tape drive and INNOVATION's
storage management solutions deliver more powerful business protection
to our customers," said Gary Francis, StorageTek Corporate Vice
President and General Manager, Automated Tape Solutions. "The T9840B
tape drive is known for its unmatched fast access to data. By offering
FICON attach, we provide increased data rates over increased distance.
INNOVATION's software benefits our customers by fully exploiting
the T9840B technology."
"Customers taking delivery of T9840B FICON-attach tape drives
are going to see amazing benefits. Pre-release testing," Meehan
went on, "clearly shows the FICON-attach T9840B drive is capable
of supporting multiple concurrent disk backups. Incredibly high I/O capacity
makes z/OS and OS/390 platforms an extremely
popular choice as an enterprise backup server. Customers moving to centralize
mainframe Linux, UNIX and Windows disk backup/restore with INNOVATION
ABRINSTANT, FDR/UPSTREAM and FDRSOS solutions will find it takes a high-speed,
high-capacity tape system like the FICON-attach T9840B to be able to keep
pace.
INNOVATION customers who trust FDRINSTANT to empower FDR, ABR, FDRSOS
and FDR/UPSTREAM for real-time protection of their e-business data are
going to find that T9840B FICON-attach tape more than lives up to its
advance billing. I expect FDR solution users are going to find the T9840B
FICON-attach drive a very interesting addition to their equipment portfolio."
On INNOVATION Data Processing...
INNOVATION Data Processing the leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
of
non-disruptive mainframe z/OS and OS/390 business protection and storage
management solutions, known for their ability to eliminate business downtime
in mainframe and mixed mainframe S/390 Linux, Windows, UNIX and
Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN enterprise storage environments, delivers exceptional
reliability and prize-winning price/performance. The first ISV to seamlessly
employ StorageTek's SnapShot for
non-disruptive backup of mainframe and open systems data, INNOVATION's
long-standing alliance with StorageTek continues to deliver a continuous
stream of solutions, now combining the flexibility of T9840B FICON-attach
tape drives with the robust functionality of INNOVATION software.
Distributing non-disruptive "INSTANT-technology" storage
protection solutions worldwide, thousands of users in the United States
and 35 other countries around the globe look to INNOVATION Data Processing
for their non-stop e-business continuance solutions.
Further information about INNOVATION, its products
and services, can be obtained from the INNOVATION home page at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com
or by e-mailing sales@fdrinnovation.com
