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Mainframe Appliance for Storage

Overview Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) is a 'TAPE-ON-DISK' virtual tape controller for IBM zSeries class [or compatible] mainframes running z/OS, OS/390 or VSE. Though it appears to mainframes as an IBM 3494-VTS [i.e. 'Virtual Tape Server'] the MAS is fundamentally different from a VTS. A VTS is still a tape-based storage scheme that uses a disk just to cache data that is being written to, or read from, tape. A MAS, on the other hand, is totally disk-based storage system that does not use any tapes - at any point in its operations. This paper introduces the reader to the concepts of 'TAPE-ON-DISK' as well as the solution offered by Bus-Tech and then reviews several of the applications where MAS can provide immediate benefit.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Bus-Tech	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Removable Storage, Tape Drives - Libraries

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