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Through the Channel Gateway, open systems disk storage products (such as FC, SAN and RAID disk storage products from Data Domain, SUN, EMC, Hitachi, NEC, Nexsan, ...) and open systems network attached and iSCSI storage products (such as SANRAD and network appliance disk storage products) can be channel-attached to the mainframe via native ESCON and FICON. The Channel Gateway presents itself to the mainframe as native ESCON or FICON channel-attached devices (such as 3480, 3490 or 3590 tape drives). Mainframe applications and tape management software mount, dismount, read and write “tapes” through the Channel Gateway without change. ESCON and FICON traffic is streamed at wire speed to the open systems disk storage with no added MIPS overhead, no bottlenecks and no impact to the mainframe.
Through the Channel Gateway, the advanced features and cost effective storage found in today’s open systems disk solutions and NAS iSCSI storage solutions are now available to the mainframe user. Features such as data de-duplication, remote site replication, point in time snap shots, … can be immediately deployed for mainframe backup and disaster recovery applications.
Channel Gateway Data Sheets
 DATA SHEET - CHANNEL GATEWAY FAMILY (2.1 MB)
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