According to INNOVATION the FDR Storage Management Solution Suite, including FDR(Fast Dump Restore), ABR, FDRINSTANT, and ABRINSTANT providing non-disruptive zSeries Business on Demand data protection, the FDR/UPSTREAM Storage Management Solution Suite for non-disruptive Business on Demand protection of UNIX, Linux and Windows SAN, LAN and NAS distributed storage, as well as for Linux on zSeries and S/390 UNIX data protection, all work with the new IBM Enterprise Tape Drive.

The company is additionally announcing its FATSCOPY solution, for auto migrating data residing on older 3480/3490E tape media cartridges to the new large capacity 3592 cartridge will update local tape management systems (CA1, IBM-RMM) to match.

"FICON-attach IBM Enterprise Tape Drives," according to Thomas J. Meehan, INNOVATION Vice President, Advanced Technology, "are an absolutely imperative addition for zSeries server sites to maintain a viable business on demand data protection plan." Adding, "Customers need these new high-speed, high-capacity tape drives to keep pace, as Internet and real-time e-business on demand applications drive up the amount of data stored on mainframe, Linux, UNIX, Windows and LAN servers."

"The new Enterprise Tape Drives will provide customers the ability to use one tape drive for both capacity centric and access centric applications, assisting with storage consolidation," said Charlie Andrews, Director of Marketing, IBM Tape Subsystems. "Combining the new IBM Enterprise Tape Drive with INNOVATION storage management software delivers a powerful business data protection solution to customers."

Their incredibly high I/O capacity makes zSeries platforms extremely popular choices as an enterprise backup server. zSeries customers taking delivery of new Enterprise Tape Drives are going to see amazing benefits." Meehan went on, "a FICON attached Enterprise Tape Drive is clearly capable of supporting multiple concurrent disk backups. INNOVATION ABRINSTANT, FDR/UPSTREAM and FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS zSeries customers moving to centralize mainframe Linux, UNIX and Windows disk backup/restore will find it takes a high-speed, high-capacity tape system like the FICON capabilities of the Enterprise Tape Drive to be able to keep pace.

Customers empowering INNOVATION e-Business on Demand solutions with real time, non-disruptive FDRINSTANT data protection are going to find that this new drive more than lives up to its 3590 family reputation. I expect FDR solution users are going to find the FICON-attach Enterprise Tape Drive a very valuable addition to their equipment portfolio."

On INNOVATION Data Processing...
INNOVATION Data Processing the first Independent Software Vendor (ISV) to seamlessly employ IBM FlashCopy and now FCv 2 "Dataset FlashCopy" for non-disruptive z/OS mainframe business protection and storage management, is known for its ability to eliminate business downtime in mainframe and mixed S/390 Unix, Linux on zSeries, UNIX, Windows, and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN enterprise storage environments. Delivering exceptional reliability and prize-winning price/performance, the long-standing INNOVATION alliance with IBM continues to deliver a continuous stream of solutions, now combining the flexibility of 3592 tape drives with the robust functionality of INNOVATION software. INNOVATION distributes non-disruptive "INSTANT" storage protection solutions worldwide, to thousands of users in the United States and 35 other countries around the globe who look to INNOVATION for their non-stop Business on Demand solutions. Further information about INNOVATION, its products and services, can be obtained from the INNOVATION home page at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com or e-mail us at sales@fdrinnovation.com