The easiest would be to go to vendor sites to see what they support. Current offerings I know about are from
IBM TS7720 EMC DLm Tape solutions Hitachi Fujitsu Luminex Then there is also software tapeless solutions CA VTAPE Or you can search the internet for Virtual Tapes and Mainframe or Tapeless Mainframes Also, if your company is a member of Share.org then you can search the archives for presentations on tapeless solutions for the mainframe Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sources for learing about state of the art Mainframe Virtual and physical tape? Newbie open systems backup admin. here being thrown into mainframe storage. We have some very old VTS systems and I'm looking for credible education / journals on "state of the art" in mainframe tape (VTS) storage. Anyone have any reccomendations of online or print journals, trade magazines, blogs? Thanks, Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
