Guided by the Universal Storage Networking principle, Luminex has aligned with industry leaders to open the mainframe market to the same competitive forces that are at work creating advanced technologies and products in the open systems storage and data management marketplace. Our partners share our vision and commitment to change and evolve the mainframe storage landscape.  The Channel Gateway is enabling a flood of innovative, better, faster, more feature rich and more cost-effective mainframe storage solutions to reach the mainframe market.  Together with our partners, we are breaking down proprietary barriers and delivering advancements in storage products and data management methods for the mainframe community. 

Our partnerships include:

Data Domain's Global Compression and remote replication technologies offer breakthrough data reduction rates that enable new efficiencies for enterprise data protection and replication. Mainframe customers throughout the world are now leveraging the huge cost and bandwidth advantages of the Luminex / Data Domain solution to backup and replicate mainframe data.

Data Domain Solutions
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The Channel Gateway enables the full suite of Sun enterprise and storage management software to be deployed in mainframe environments. Customers throughout the world are now leveraging SUN servers, operating systems, data management and data storage solutions to lower costs and increase capacity for mainframe batch processing and backup applications.

Luminex’s Channel Gateway software can be purchased directly from SUN.

Sun Partner Feature: "Illuminating the Future"
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Copan is the industry leader in energy efficient MAID storage.  Saving thousands of kilowatt hours of electricity versus conventional storage, Copan solutions deliver massive electrical consumption savings for Data Centers throughout the world.  Combined with the Luminex solution, the Copan solutions deliver these same energy consumption savings to the Mainframe Data Center.

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FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection VTL solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business criticial data with speed, integrity and simplicity.  Through the Luminex Channel Gateway, mainframe data centers can now benefit from the FalconStor VTL’s impressive capabilities and features.

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Luminex and Sepaton have partnered to enable customers with mainframe environments to take advantage of cost-effective, best-of-breed Sepaton data protection technology using the Luminex Channel Gateway. The pairing gives customers a flexible, powerful mainframe backup, restore and disaster recovery solution.

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IBM
Luminex developed an ESCON 3215 console interface product for IBM’s mission critical Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) customer base and the recommended solution by IBM to these customers that are looking to modernize their ESCON-attached capabilities and infrastructure.

3215 IBM Solution
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Unisys
Unisys is an OEM of Luminex’s ESCON connectivity HBAs and currently ships ClearPath Dorado mainframes with Luminex ESCON 6999 HBA internal for host connectivity to ESCON tape and disk storage devices.

Unisys Mainframes
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Kanematsu Electronics, Ltd. (KEL)
KEL is a leading provider of storage systems and services to Japan’s largest customers.  As a long-time OEM of Luminex’s, KEL has a well-established customer base that relies on Luminex’s mainframe virtual tape technology for daily production operations.  With a focus on quality and reliability, Hitachi and Fujitsu in Japan have each certified and sold the KEL mainframe virtual tape products based on Luminex technology to their own enterprise customers.

Emulex
Emulex is a leading provider of Fibre Channel connectivity products.  Luminex leverages the technology advancements and leadership of the Emulex FC HBA product line with our core FICON processing software as the OEM platform for FICON connectivity.

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Terasystem
Terasystem SpA is the largest vendor-independent data storage services company in Italy.  It has now expanded its operations to Spain.  Terasystems has partnered with Luminex as an authorized full service reseller in Italy and Spain to deliver Luminex Channel Gateways with Data Domain de-duplication products.

Shoden
Shoden Data Systems (Pty) Ltd. is a full service provider of Hitachi Data Systems, Fujitsu Siemens computers and Data Domain products in South Africa.  Shoden and Luminex have entered into an international reseller agreement to authorize Shoden to distribute Luminex Channel Gateways in South Africa for use with Data Domain de-duplication products.

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