No STK developed ICEBERG (RAID 6 architecture); Kodeack (RAID 5 architecture) and Arctic Fox (Solid State device) which FROZEN DOG never got out of development. The VSM is RAID 6 architecture under the covers and yes SUN bought STK then Oracle bought SUN/STK.
The point I am try to make is there are only 2 mainframe real tape vendors out there and they are IBM and Oracle and from this agency's perspective the VSM/SL8500 is an outstanding architecture and it works very well in this environment. We still use FTAM/CTAM (Ford or Chevy Truck Access Method) for Disaster Recovery: TRUCK TAPE. Although we were shipping 3,000 3490/9490 tapes to Iron Mountain daily and now we ship less than a hundred of the 9840D tapes. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Who are the TOP Mainframe Tapesubsystems Vendors? So? Did anyone claim that Oracle developed VSM or SL8500? The notice below says that someone bought some product from Oracle, nothing else. Nowadays SL8500 is onwed by Oracle - so it's Oracle product. BTW: many IBM products are developed by still existing independent companies. Examples: all tape libraries except the largest (Quantum, previously ADIC), some FASt aka DSxxxx dasd (Ingenico), N-something_I_forgot (NetApp), all the FC/FICON switches... Regarding to the Silo-SL change: a single SL8500 in maximum configuration is huge library, with approx. 10000 tape slots. We don't know what drives are inside, but the technolgical jump could be really big as well. W dniu 2010-08-04 19:58, Staller, Allan pisze: > Oracle just bought SUN. SUN recently bought STK. The VSM and SL8500 were > developed by STK, not ORACLE. > > <snip> > Our agency just replaced 10 (ten) STK 9310 silos with 2 (two) Oracle > VSMs (Virtual Storage Manager) and 2 (two) Oracle SL8500 tape > subsystems. They are working GREAT!! > </snip> -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2009 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 118.763.528 zotych. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchway XXI WZ z dnia 16 marca 2008r., oraz uchway XVI NWZ z dnia 27 padziernika 2008r., moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 123.763.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym BRE Banku SA bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
