We did look at keeping the existing devices, but like many others we are in a space/power/cooling crunch for our raised floor. Plus with the age and mileage on this equipment the maintenance costs are increasing, then add in the costs of reducing the size of the ATL, the bottom line dictates replacement.
Thanks, Linda -------------- Original message -------------- From: "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linda Mooney wrote: > > We are finishing up our cutover to a BusTech virtual tape appliance. We > > will > be de-installing our old ATL (about 12 years old) and our even older 3480 > drives. We will still have a need to read and write some physical 3480 and > 3490e tapes for the next several years, just not a lot of them. About 6-8 > drives would be plenty. Does anyone have/know of anything that might work for > us? We have a z800, all ESCON channels. > > Why don't you keep your existing hardware? > It's cheap - you already paid it > It's working - you currently use it > If you need to save floor space, then you can reduce the size of your > ATL (eiliminate some cabinets) or just keep only the drives and controller. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > -- > BRE Bank SA > ul. Senatorska 18 > 00-950 Warszawa > www.brebank.pl > > S±d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy > XII Wydzia³ Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru S±dowego, > nr rejestru przedsiêbiorców KRS 0000025237 > NIP: 526-021-50-88 > Wed³ug stanu na dzieñ 01.01.2008 r. kapita³ zak³adowy BRE Banku SA wynosi > 118.642.672 z³ote i zosta³ w ca³o¶ci wp³acony. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
