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 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. Luminex’s MODERN Mainframe Virtual Tape technologies and its Channel Gateways are 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, data management methods and connectivity solutions for the mainframe community.
Our partnerships include:
EMC/Data Domain’s deduplication technologies, with Global Compression and remote replication, offer breakthrough data reduction rates of up to 20x plus, enabling new efficiencies for enterprise data storage and management, archiving and backup and recovery. Mainframe customers throughout the world are now leveraging the cost, bandwidth and performance advantages of the Luminex MODERN Mainframe Virtual Tape solution with EMC/Data Domain deduplication storage to store, archive and backup and recover mainframe data and eliminate or reduce their dependence on physical tape.
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"
Sun Solutions
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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 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) 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.
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Founded in 1877, Océ is one of the world's leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The broad Océ offering includes high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics, as well as office printing and copying systems. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in approximately 100 countries. Océ sources Luminex’s industry leading FICON HBA to provide FICON connectivity for its mainframe digital printers.
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Intercom, a worldwide provider of channel and storage products for the IBM mainframe environment, is an OEM of Luminex’s FICON connectivity software for its HBA applications. Intercom is also a reseller of Luminex’s Channel Gateway MODERN Mainframe Virtual Tape products in Europe.
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. Emulex products are available worldwide.
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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 EMC/Data Domain deduplication storage.
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Shoden Data Systems
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 Data Systems (UK) is a full service provider of Hitachi Data Systems, Fujitsu Siemens computers and Data Domain products in the United Kingdon and Europe. Shoden and Luminex have entered into international reseller agreements to authorize Shoden to distribute Luminex Channel Gateways in South Africa and in the United Kingdom and Europe for use with EMC/Data Domain deduplication products.
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Solvan (Soluciones de Vanguardia)
Solvan is a leading provider of full service IT and data protection solutions for SAN, NAS and traditional LAN environments in Mexico and Central America. Solvan is an authorized reseller of EMC|Data Domain, Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade and Luminex’s Mainframe Virtual Tape Channel Gateways.
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