IBM has announced its 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.

The enhanced IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740 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.

Other new features of the TS7740 are:
* On demand performance and cache capacity increments that allow the TS7740 to be tailored to help address customer-specific performance and capacity needs;

* A one-terabyte single-cache drawer configuration for smaller businesses that require less capacity;

* A Copy Export function designed to allow export of data from a standalone or GRID TS7740 for disaster recovery usage; and

* Additional functions that improve management capabilities for the TS7740
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•Date: 11th July 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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