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Mainframe Appliance for Storage Gives Software Developers Room to Do Their Work

Overview Striva Corporation is a fast-growing software developer with headquarters in Scotts Valley, California, and development facilities in Austin, Texas, and London, England. The company wanted to make more mainframe disk space available to developers; allow faster, unattended backups; provide additional storage with minimal environmental impact. The ESCON-attached Mainframe Appliance for Storage virtual tape controller for IBM S/390, z900, z800, and compatible mainframes running zOS, OS/400, MVS, or VSE.

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Publisher	Bus-Tech	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Storage Management, Hard Drives

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