CentricStor Continues to Lead the Industry in Supporting the
Broadest Array of Platforms
CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance now adds VM and VSE
Operating Systems Support
Munich/Germany, September 14, 2004 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces that CentricStor, the
most powerful Virtual Tape Appliance available, continues to add
functionality critical to customer needs by adding support for
IBM’s VM (Virtual Machine) and VSE (Virtual Storage Extended)
operating systems and backup applications. The benefits of an
automated tape consolidation solution with CentricStor in terms of
flexibility and scalability are now available for VM and VSE sites.
Target audience for this new support are IBM VM/VSE customers who
want reliable tape backup with the newest technology for tape
automation.
CentricStor, developed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, is
deployed as a self-contained disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solution
with virtual tape interface that supports predominant heterogeneous
operating system environments and backup applications. CentricStor
enables today’s complex data centers to consolidate their
tape environments onto fewer real tape devices and tape libraries
while shrinking backup windows and dramatically reducing data
recovery times. The net result is a less capital and resource
intensive environment that saves money and time and reduces
business risk.
The additional support for VM and VSE environments includes
the backup applications Dynam-T, VM-Backup and EPIC. CentricStor
continues to support the MVS, OS/400, BS2000 operating environments
as well as a broad range of Open Systems (UNIX, Linux, Windows)
with backup applications like Legato NetWorker, Tivoli Storage
Manager, Veritas NetBackup, HP Data Protector and CA BrightStor
ARCserve. Major tape automation platforms and tape devices from
such prominent companies as StorageTek, ADIC and IBM can be
attached at the back end.
“Our industry-leading development efforts enable us to
continue to quickly add necessary functionality to the CentricStor
solution. The next consequent step after the recently announced
support of OS/400 was to add the VM and VSE extension,” said
Dr. Helmut Beck, Vice President Storage, Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
“VM/VSE customers are now able to include these systems in
their tape consolidation.”
”Our competencies are focused on customers with IBM
environments”, said Claus Trockels, International Director
Service and Consulting of becom Group Holding B.V. “A lot of
our customers were waiting for such a virtualization solution to
keep their backup and recovery processes up and running with the
newest technology for tape automation.” The becom group, an
IT infrastructure specialist offering IT Consulting & Services,
is certified as a Fujitsu Siemens Computers Storage Competence
Center.
“CentricStor not only supports the broadest array of
operating platforms in the industry, with this latest addition it
is the only virtual tape platform to directly support VM and
VSE,” said Mike Holland, Vice President and General Manager,
CentricStor Business Unit, PeakData, Inc. “There are still
hundreds of VM and VSE sites worldwide. We offer multiple benefits
to these installations. Many are operating with older tape
technologies and no automation. Using the CentricStor virtual
solution, these sites are now able to automate with a modern,
high-performance, enterprise-wide tape consolidation solution to
their tape storage problems that is both effective and easy to
cost-justify,” said Holland.
CentricStor - Backgrounder
CentricStor is the name given to Fujitsu Siemens
Computers’ “Virtual Tape Appliance”, which is
used to consolidate the magnetic tape processing. The open storage
solution is employed for mainframes and for open system
environments running UNIX and Windows. CentricStor employs virtual
tape drives to provide all linked systems with a multitude of
high-performance and permanently available backup and archiving
resources over the storage area network. This universal
connectivity enables different servers and applications to access
the virtual archive simultaneously, without the need for a real
tape drive for each individual system. CentricStor integrates
transparently into existing IT environments, making it unnecessary
to modify existing application and backup scenarios. Information
about CentricStor in Europe can be found at
www.centricstor.com
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About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider
with a responsible strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and
Business Critical Computing products, services and solutions. With
a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from
handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure
solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a strong presence in all
key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging
the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint
shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet
the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium
enterprises and private users. For further please visit::
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
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