EMC Annouce IBM zEnterprise Support
EMC Annouce IBM zEnterprise Support
EMC Expand Product Offering to Enable IBM zEnterprise System Owners to Accelerate Private Cloud Strategies
Information infrastructure solutions company, EMC Corporation has announced at the SHARE user conference taking place in Boston, that it is to provide support for the new IBM zEnterprise System. The company also unveiled a range of new information management and protection capabilities for System z environments to help customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud.
As customers are embarking upon a strategy of data center consolidation and virtualization, private clouds are proving to be an ideal solution to lower IT costs and improve agility. As a part of that strategy, mainframe systems are increasingly running mixed workloads, most notably multiple Linux images on System z.
In a multi-year technology licensing agreement with IBM, EMC is delivering a range of new storage capabilities to support System z with the same leading features available for virtualized open systems platforms.
The new EMC mainframe storage capabilities are:
- EMC® Solutions Enabler Support of Linux on System z, which simplifies management and improves efficiency by enabling the full spectrum of leading EMC Symmetrix® VMAX® functionality including FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering), virtual provisioning and virtual LUN migrations for multiple Linux images running on a System z.
- EMC z/OS Migrator, an industry first solution that helps avoid application downtime and also maintain disaster recovery readiness during technology refreshes through non-disruptive data migration.
- Deduplication Storage Expansion Option for EMC Disk Library for Mainframe, first announced in early July, dramatically improves backup and recovery processes using the Data Domain DD880 deduplication storage system to achieve longer onsite retention, optimised replication and lower overall disk and tape storage costs.
- FICON Express8 as well as High Performance FICON (zHPF) and Extended Distance FICON support on Symmetrix VMAX helps to improve performance, throughput and link utilisation in System z storage environments.
- Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) for Symmetrix VMAX provides advanced cross platform data access and protection.
Available on Symmetrix since 1996, and now available at no charge for Symmetrix VMAX systems, ESP enables direct mainframe channel z/OS based distributed data backup through an EMC partnership with INNOVATION Data Processing with the FDRSOS product. In addition, as customers continue using mainframes in virtual data centers, EMC plans to have future support for continuous availability and for planned/unplanned restart in z/VM environments.
Brian Gallagher, President of EMC's Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group, said: "The mainframe is playing a key role in the journey 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. 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."
The company has also announced the appointment of Jeetu Patel as Chief Technology Officer of the company's Information Intelligence Group.
Patel is a 17-year information management veteran and former partner of Doculabs, a strategic consultancy for enterprise social collaboration and content management. Patel will report to Mark Lewis, President of EMC's Information Intelligence Group and will be responsible for orchestrating and driving the group's product vision and innovation, growth strategy and cloud computing initiatives.
Commenting on his appoitment, Patel said: "Over the years, I've seen firsthand the strength of EMC's market-leading information management solutions and how it has helped customers drive better business efficiencies. I'm delighted to join EMC's Information Intelligence Group and I look forward to working with the team to further drive its innovation in solving today's information governance challenges as well as in helping our customers on their journey into cloud computing."
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