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Key Benefits:
- Non-disruptive and seamless to current backup process
- Up to 20x data reduction
- Backups replicated to remote DR facility utilizing 95% less bandwidth
- Far smaller data center footprint
- Data recovery at disk-based speeds
- Enhanced data integrity—with continuous data verification and recoverability
- High availability and clustering configurations
- Eliminates the use of physical tapes and the associated risk of lost or stolen tapes in transit
- Tape robotics replaced cost-effectively by disk storage
- Vast reduction in annual hardware maintenance costs
Solutions Overview:
Luminex and Data Domain have developed a powerful solution which allows mainframe users to reap the benefits of data de-duplication for cost-effective local and remote backup and recovery. Luminex’s Channel Gateway combined with Data Domain’s data de-duplication storage systems allow mainframe customers to reduce or even eliminate their tape systems and use a more reliable, faster and cost-effective virtual tape backup and recovery solution, leveraging the advantages of Data Domain’s industry leading data de-duplication technology. The Luminex and Data Domain backup and recovery solution allows the mainframe user to backup locally or, through Data Domain’s industry leading de-duplication technology, to replicate data for backup and recovery to remote disaster recovery sites.
With Data Domain’s de-duplication technology, redundant data is eliminated prior to backup, by an average factor of 20, dramatically reducing the amount of storage space required. With this much smaller backup footprint, data can now be replicated remotely across existing WAN infrastructures to off-site disaster recovery sites without incurring expensive channel extension costs. And with all backup data on disk, data recovery is measured in minutes, not hours or days.
Luminex’s Channel Gateways are connected to the mainframe as a virtual tape solution emulating 3490/3590 tape drives over FICON or ESCON channels and provide connectivity to open systems Ethernet or Fibre Channel storage systems without requiring any mainframe software changes. The Data Domain systems connect directly to the Channel Gateways as a NFS file system via Ethernet.
The combination of Luminex Channel Gateways and Data Domain de-duplication storage systems delivers a cost-effective, scalable and high throughput mainframe data backup, recovery and protection solution. Mainframe enterprises can now retain months worth of data in nearline storage, lowering the overall price/GB, accelerating data recovery, improving data protection by eliminating physical tape and simplifying management.
Luminex and Data Domain Customer Installation Configurations:
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County Government Agency
Application: Backup & Recovery |
Use Summary: Backup & recovery by a county governmental agency replicating data over a WAN using Data Domain’s de-duplication technologies. Luminex Channel Gateways run on standard Sun Solaris servers. The Channel Gateways are fully redundant with complete access to all data so if there is a loss of a component or gateway, the remaining components and gateway have full access to all data.
- Luminex Channel Gateway Software runs on standard Sun Solaris servers
- Both Channel Gateways have full access to all data
- If there is a loss of a component or gateway, the remaining components and gateway have full access to the data
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International Banking Organization
Application: Backup & Recovery |
Use Summary: Backup & recovery for an international financial institution with four Channel Gateways at three locations with a total of 24 FICON channels. Luminex’s Channel Gateways allow the financial institution to utilize its open systems storage infrastructure to manage all of its data. And with the Data Domain de-duplication appliances, the financial institution can replicate data over a WAN with no channel extension required and no increase in bandwidth.
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