Do any medium or large shops use tapeless solutions? (you decide what is medium or large). Last time I looked, I think we created over 20TB of tape data a day (mostly virtual, but some physical like HSM and TSM).
Of course management wanted to think about going tapeless a couple of years ago as vendors tried to sell them on the idea, but when you consider long term retention, I just don't see how shops cost justify it unless they are small and don't have a lot of long term retention requirements. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:43:59 -0600, Hal Merritt <hmerr...@jackhenry.com> wrote: >Many shops simply use DASD. Works great and, in many cases, can be a lot less expensive than the TCO of a tape based solution. > >The use of PC hard drives may look more attractive than z/os hard drives, but I think that is a false economy. Also one has to consider some of the really nifty DR options. > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Weidt >Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:06 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance > >Hello, > >We have an initiative to replace our aging VTS library with a tape less >appliance. In starting our research, I would like to ask the list for >comments, advice, and experiences any of you may have had with tape less >appliances and the conversion from VTS. > >Thanks for your help. > >Jim Weidt >Jostens Inc. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
