EMC Vouches Support for New IBM zEnterprise System

EMC Corporation, the world figure in info substructure solutions, announced today support for the new IBM zEnterprise System and revealed a selection of new info management and protection capacities for IBM System z environments to help purchasers accelerate their journey to the personal cloud. EMC is displaying the new solutions at the yearly SHARE user meeting taking place in Boston this week (EMC booth 406).

Private clouds are concerning lower IT expenses and improving agility and, to this end; patrons are boarding on a technique of data center consolidation and virtualization. As one part of that system, mainframe systems are increasingly running mixed workloads, most particularly multiple Linux pictures on System z. In a multi-year technology license contract with IBM, EMC is delivering a selection of new storage capacities to supporting system z with the same leading features available for virtualized open systems platforms.

The new EMC mainframe storage capacities are:
*EMC Solutions Enabler maintain of Linux going on System z, which simplifies management and improves potency by enabling the full range of leading EMC Symmetrix VMAX functionality including FAST ( Fully Automated Storage Tiering ), virtual provisioning and virtual LUN migrations for multiple Linux photographs running on a System z.
*EMC z / OS Migrator, a business first solution that helps avoid application down-time and also maintain catastrophe recovery readiness during technology refreshes through non-disruptive data migration.
*Deduplication Storage Enlargement Option for EMC Disk Library for Mainframe, first narrated in early July, significantly improves backup and recovery processes using the Info Domain DD880 deduplication storage system to attain longer onsite retention, optimized copying and lower overall disk and tape storage costs.
*FICON articulate as well as high-performance FICON (zHPF) as well as Extended Distance FICONsupport on Symmetrix VMAX helps to increase performance, throughput and link function in System z storage environments.
*Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) for Symmetrix VMAX provides complicated cross platform data access and protection. Available on Symmetrix since 1996 and now available for no cost for Symmetrix VMAX systems, ESP enables direct mainframe channel z / OS based distributed data backup thru EMC cooperation with Invention Data Processing with the FDRSOS product.

In addition, as clients continue utilizing mainframes in virtual data centers, EMC plans to have future support for continual availability and for planned / unplanned restart in z / VM environments.

*“The mainframe is in concert a key role in the expedition to the private cloud because of its ability to consolidate and simplify management of virtual workloads.  These are the same benefits that Symmetrix VMAX systems deliver in a virtualized data center,” said Brian Gallagher, President of EMC's Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group. “EMC has a long history of delivering innovative storage capabilities for mainframe environments and we’re pleased to support the new zEnterprise System and deliver new and innovative storage management and protection features.  The combination of the powerful Symmetrix VMAX, the new EMC mainframe software features and System z is an ideal fit that can improve quality of service and lower costs while making data centers easier to manage and more flexible.”

Availability:
The new EMC mainframe storage capacities and compatibility with the zEnterprise platform should be available this quarter.

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