On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:12:33 -0600, Doug Henry <doug_he...@usbank.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:01:03 -0600, Mark Zelden ><mark.zel...@zurichna.com> wrote: > >>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). > >Hi Mark, >We are completely tapeless and have 1700TB (if it were uncompressed) of >tape data (and growing). This is asynchronously mirrored to our dr site. We >have a couple of neutered drives that are capable of reading tapes from >outside but are they were altered to prevent them from writing new tapes. > Hi Doug, Thanks for the reply. I knew there were some of you out there. :-) Can you say which solution you are using? When we looked at this in 2006, we have about twice that amount and I know it has grown a lot since then. I'm sure the costs are also better now. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
