Fujitsu America and Quantum Team

Fujitsu America, Inc. and Quantum Corp. announced an agreement to offer North American customers a joint solution for large enterprise and mainframe backup and archive storage that encompasses disk and tape technologies.

Broadening the relationship between the two companies, the joint solution leverages the Fujitsu ETERNUS CS8000 unified data protection appliance for deduplicated disk-based backup and Quantum Scalar LTO intelligent tape libraries for low-cost, long-term data retention.

Need to Protect Mainframe Applications
Many large enterprises have been running their critical business applications in mainframe environments for years. Because of mainframes characteristics – as well as the highly specific nature of those applications – they continue to be prevalent in many industries. Protecting the applications and maintaining uptime are essential to the operation of these businesses; therefore, quick backups and restore times are vital. Enterprises also face compliance requirements mandating that mainframe application data be retained for years, creating a need for high storage capacity.

The combination of ETERNUS CS8000 backup and Scalar LTO tape archive enables mainframe customers to address storage workflow challenges and better manage their storage requirements and costs. Together, these technologies use a tiered approach that leverages primary disk, deduplicated disk backup and archive tape to balance access speed with capacity needs and cost requirements. This allows enterprises seeking to consolidate legacy mainframe VTLs to replace old, proprietary tape libraries with more economical deduplication and LTO tape.

The ETERNUS CS8000 is a unified data protection appliance that incorporates Quantum’s deduplication technology to consolidate backup and archiving infrastructures of open systems and mainframes. Scalar tape libraries are intelligent automated tape libraries, with built-in proactive diagnostics, intuitive management features to reduce operating expenses, and policy-based data integrity checking to ensure valuable data archived on tape can be recovered.

The combined Fujitsu-Quantum solution for customers in North America is available.

Alex Lam, VP, enterprise business, Fujitsu America, said: “Fujitsu and Quantum have achieved great success partnering in EMEA to deliver backup and archiving solutions to our customers, which includes enterprises with large mainframe environments. Fujitsu is excited to extend the partnership with Quantum to North America and will be using the combined scale of the partnership to reach a wider set of customers, especially those in key verticals like Federal, Media & Entertainment and Energy, with a comprehensive set of backup and archiving solutions.“

Robert Clark, SVP, product operations, Quantum, said: “This new partnership enables us to provide mainframe customers here in North America with the same solution benefits that customers realize throughout Europe, including improving uptime and protection for mission-critical mainframe applications while reducing backup storage costs.“