On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:26 -0500, Darth Keller <darth.kel...@assurant.com> wrote:
>>>Have you considered EMC DLm or Bus-tech MDL (EMC owns Bus-tech now). >I have not worked with MDL (which I think is more of a "small shop" >solution), >but I have with DLm. I've also worked with VSM, but it was always >>>backed by physical tape. BTW, the vendor is Oracle now, not Sun. > > >So my understanding is the MDL was the HDS version of the DLM - the >Bustech appliance ahead of HDS storage. We have an HDS MDL which uses an >AMS2500 for back-end storage. It's also my understanding that the MDL is >no longer available as such. HDS now sells the Falconstor's VTL instead. > >I would consider the DLM & the MDL to be roughly equivalent. We are very >happy with the performance of the MDL. >dd keller > Thanks for that clarification. I really don't know the history behind the Bus-tech and I think I used "MDL" when I shouldn't have to refer to it pre- HDS (or is that not even correct). Was the original just called "MAS" (Mainframe Appliance for Storage). Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
