EMC intros disk library with dedupe for mainframe

HOPKINTON, USA: Information storage solution provider EMC Corporation announced its next generation mainframe virtual tape library (VTL), DLm6000.

Designed for use in IBM z/OS environments, the new EMC DLm6000 can leaverage both EMC Data Domain and EMC VNX storage systems' offerings.

Shane Jackson, VP, marketing, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division, said: “The new DLm6000 not only delivers new deduplication capabilities and faster performance for mainframe users, but also a new and unmatched approach to mainframe storage and data protection. The complexity of managing two or three separate platforms imposed by competing solutions is eliminated and reducing tape use removes a host of limitations that made it difficult for mainframe users to meet their SLAs for batch processing, backups and data access.”

EMC claims that its new mainframe VTL, which will be available in September, 2011, is industry’s fastest mainframe VTL with twice the performance of its nearest competitor and can address the full range of mainframe tape workloads with a single, consolidated all-disk system.

The EMC DLm6000 also offers concurrent support for both primary and deduplication storage within the same platform, enabling a consolidated systems approach.