https://www.computerworld.com/article/2514205/emc-buys-mainframe-virtual-tape-library-vendor-bus-tech.html
"EMC has been reselling Bus-Tech's Mainframe Data Library VTL since 2008 as the EMC Disk Library for mainframe (DLm)" Not taking any sides etc., just sharing what a quick search found. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, March 5, 2021 7:42 PM, Carl Swanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken, > > > On this I will need to respectfully disagree, seems I work with this product > every day and this is not accurate. The DLm is 100% evolution of the BusTech > MDL and we see this constantly in the product. Is it different yes, has it > evolved yes, and the evolution is from BusTech MDL. I have worked on this > product from the time it was acquired by EMC now Dell. And another fun > relatively unknow BusTech fact at one time for a short while they were owned > by StorageTek (STK). This happened because BusTech was acquired by Network > Systems Corp who was then acquired by STK. After that the principals of > BusTech were able to buy their company back from STK. > > Carl Swanson > Mobile:215.688.1459 > Email: [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of Ken > Bloom > Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 7:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RES: Tape solutions for mainframe > > That’s not true! EMC purchased BUSTECH and killed their product. DLm is an > internal EMC development and had nothing to do with the BUSTECH products. > > Kenneth A. Bloom > CEO > Avenir Technologies Inc > /d/b/a Visara International > 203-984-2235tel:203-984-2235 > [email protected]mailto:[email protected] > www.visara.comhttp://www.visara.com/ > > On Mar 5, 2021, at 7:48 AM, Carl > [email protected] wrote: > > Just a small point of clarification BUSTECH was purchased by EMC in the > 2010 / 2011 time frame and from that come the DLm. > > Carl Swanson > Mobile:215.688.1459 > Email: [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of > Brian Westerman > > Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RES: Tape solutions for mainframe > > The "former BUSTECH" is also claimed by OPTICA (the people who make > converters and directors), for their z/VT product. It's a lot closer to the > original BUSTECH than DLm, but they could both be based on the same > technology. > > Brian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
