Darth, You said " HDS now sells the Falconstor's VTL instead."
To be pedantic, that's not entirely true. We have a lot of successful Falconstore implementations on the dark side of the computer room, but for mainframe you need something that virtualizes mainframe tape drives like Luminex or Secure Agent, and hands off the data to Falconstore. We can use VSP, AMS, or virtualized ACME brand disk as the back store with this solution. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Darth Keller > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class > > >>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 > > > > > > This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may > contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended > solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or > other use of this message or its attachments is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please > notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all > copies and backups thereof. Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
