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By Kevin Komiega, Assistant News Editor
03 May 2001 | SearchStorage |
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IBM is set to announce enhancements to its tape and disk portfolio
that include Fibre Channel attachment of its eServer iSeries to Shark
Enterprise Storage Servers, and its first Fibre drive for Linear
Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium technology.
IBM will also announce support for advanced disaster tolerance copy
services including Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) and FlashCopy in
Fibre Channel and SCSI environments for iSeries and AS/400.
The iSeries servers can now attach to the Shark Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM Magstar and Ultrium tape offerings via Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel is a technology for transmitting data between computer
devices at a data rate of up to 2G-Bits/sec. Since it is faster,
Fibre Channel is expected to replace the Small Computer System
Interface (SCSI) as the transmission interface between servers and
clustered storage devices.
IBM said iSeries and AS/400 customers running business critical
applications such as ERP, CRM and SCM will now be able to leverage the
speed, security and physical distance flexibility of Fibre Channel
connectivity for their data storage.
IBM said Fibre Channel support for the LTO drive boosts its data
transfer rate to 100MB/sec. peak throughput rate, a 20MB/sec.
increase over Ultra2 SCSI connections.
Brenda Zawatski, vice president, removable media storage solutions
for IBM's Storage Systems Group said the new drive balances customers'
need for a midrange tape backup solution that has high capacity, speed,
and investment protection for growth.
PPRC will be available for SCSI-attached servers beginning April 26,
2001. PPRC and FlashCopy for both SCSI and Fibre-attached servers will
be available later this year.Fibre Channel connectivity for IBM Magstar and Ultrium tape offerings will be available on May 25.
IBM's family of LTO-based solutions includes tape drives and small,
medium and large tape-automation products. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and
Seagate jointly developed the LTO specification.
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