IBM TS7700 eVTL Support for Grid Wide Replication for Object Store and Support for TS1160 Tape Drive
With this later, over 1EB of compressed data per 18-frame TS4500 tape library and up to 39PB compressed in 10-square-foot library
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 8, 2022 at 2:02 pm
By JP Lavigne, WW product manager, IBM Corp.
IBM’s TS7700 eVTL team announces support for grid wide replication for Object Store
and support for TS1160 tape drive #ibmstorage.
After 20 months in my role as WW PM for the TS7700 Enterprise VTL, I introduce to 2 new enhancements. We have made progress introducing new performance aspects, smarter solutions, and improved functionality. These improvements include: better data resiliency with advanced LWORM functionality, Dual Control Security Authentication, enhancements around our Transparent Cloud Tiering solution, improvements in capacity and improved data resiliency within the TS7700 grid. In addition this past summer we introduced the first all flash cache for the TS7770 family.
Our number one focus is the customer and ‘Integration by Design’ between the IBM Z, DS8900 and the TS7700. The TS7700 is the foundation for this architecture, delivering additional lower cost tiers for data as well as performing the backup and restore functionality and finally acting as the archive component for the entire IBM Z environment.The company continues to deliver the trusted solution for mission critical hybrid multicloud environments
I announce enhancements to the TS7700. The first came in December of 2021 when we announced the TS7700 Advanced Object Store for DS8000. This is transparent cloud tiering for unstructured/object store data for the IBM Z that has TS7700 grid synch and asynch replication support. This enables IBM Z customers to lower their overall storage costs by enabling the moving of warm or cold object store data to their TS7700 cluster/grid.
In addition, the TS7700 team announces the support for the TS1160 drive. With the support of the TS1160 Enterprise Tape drives, customer can now store over 1EB of compressed data per 18-frame TS4500 tape library and up to 39PB compressed in a 10-square-foot library. Availability of this support is expected in late March.
To my last point. I want to thank the entire TS7700 team for a job well done. Most are in Tucson, AZ, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Tokyo, Japan, with the rest of us spread across the world. We are made up of hardware and software developers, testers, architects, program, project and product managers as well as manufacturing.
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