Pommier, Rex R. wrote:
Part of the problem is that like many others out there, we are "getting
off the mainframe" (and have been for almost 5 years now) and finally
pulled the first piece of code off it. Management doesn't want to spend
the money on something that's "going away".
The other thing is that we make *extensive* use of the snapshot
capabilities and I haven't seen much in the way of other software giving
me the capabilities I have with it. Where else can I have 700 volumes
of 3390 disk physically sitting on about 200 GB physical and be able to
rebuild a test system in about 15 minutes start to finish?
Sun/STK products (SVA V2X2). You can also convince mgmt that machine can
be later used in open systems (my assumption).
BTW: "mainframe going away" seems to be big part of IT industry. It
coulb be good business to sell products and services for "going away"
mainframes. IMHO it is also very stable market - a lot of datacenters
have been getting rid of mainframes for years. <g>
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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