Dean, You have a couple of options. Virtual-tape offerings are probably the best bet (no need for channel-extenders). Both the IBM offering and CA-Vtape allow you to use TCP/IP to connect. EMC has also has a Virtual-tape offering that I believe (not 100% sure) uses TCP/IP as well; the difference is the both IBM and CA's offering backup their virtual-tape cache to physical tape (on-site and/or off-site) while EMC is cache only. The STK/VSM option is also available, but is not yet TCP/IP available (it requires a channel-extender).
Russell Witt CA -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Remote Tape Backup Hi, Senior management has this vision of moving our Data Center to a new location and having the tape processing in another. Don't ask me why or how come because I have no idea. Does anyone else do this ? What kind of technology would you need ? Dark fiber keeps coming up in conversation. Any info, white papers, opinions would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse Service of New York (212) 609 - 9608 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
