Faster data backup and recovery time

DQC News Bureau

Mumbai: Brocade announced new capabilities that dramatically improve the
backup and recovery of critical data in mainframe environments. The new
solutions are available immediately from Brocade Partners IBM and Sun
Microsystems, and utilize tape pipelining technology to accelerate read/write
performance for FICON-based tape libraries over a Wide Area Network (WAN). These
features enable faster backup of data to remote locations.

The new Brocade FICON tape pipelining technology is now available on the
Brocade USD-X and Brocade M3000 distance extension products. The new feature
facilitates the replication of data to the IBM VTS and Peer-to-Peer VTS and the
Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5), which are virtual tape
solutions for large-scale mainframe data protection infrastructures.

The new capabilities are believed to enable improvements in data throughput
of up to 200 percent and in overall backup and recovery performance by as much
as 70 percent.

"High-performance tape vaulting over distance allows customers to extend
the affordability and reliability of tape to provide a robust and affordable
business continuity solution for today's large global companies," said Tom
Buiocchi, Brocade VP of Worldwide Marketing.