CNT introduces services for FICON environments

CNT has launched a new suite of services designed to help enterprise customers accelerate the move from ESCON mainframe environments to FICON.

Today, large mainframe environments are encountering new growth, scalability, and recovery requirements driven by ever-larger volumes of data and an increased sensitivity to the need for effective business continuity infrastructures. Because of these new requirements, some businesses are reevaluating their current ESCON architectures and migrating to FICON.

"A move to FICON offers clients enhanced performance, functionality, and increased distance capabilities. Also, clients can realise cost savings from moving to a FICON environment," said David Barton, vice president of professional services at CNT. "By migrating to FICON, clients can consolidate their storage, needing fewer tape drives, storage arrays, controllers, or directors. This cost benefit alone can save a company hundreds of thousands of dollars per year."

CNT’s new service aims to make the move to FICON as quick and painless as possible.

CNT has also announcing that it is to run FICON workshops. These one-day events are geared toward helping people determining whether their business would benefit from a move to FICON. CNT consultants work collaboratively with the storage management team to identify the unique issues within the environment that might benefit from FICON, and educate the customer as to the key things to consider in the migration.

For additional information on CNT's FICON workshop, please click here.

•Date: 17th December 2003 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT cont.
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