Luminex Partners With Italian Integrator Terasystem

Luminex Software, Inc. has partnered with Terasystem S.p.A.,
the largest data storage system integrator in Italy, as its full
service channel partner for its ground breaking Channel Gateway
products in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Terasystem has already completed
multiple proof-of-concept installations and first customer sales of
Luminex’s Channel Gateway in Italy.

Based on the success
of pilot programs to some of its largest financial customers in Italy,
Terasystem has formed a dedicated sales, marketing and customer support
team to market the Luminex solution to the entire base of mainframe
customers in Italy, Spain and Portugal. The Luminex solution has been
in operational use for many months and Terasystem now has a growing
base of satisfied customers along with great reference sites.

The
Channel Gateway delivers virtual tape emulation for the z/OS, z/VM and
z/VSE mainframe operating environments. The Channel Gateway presents
storage solutions including NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI to the
mainframe as 3480, 3490 and 3590 tape drives while leveraging advanced
capabilities such as data de-duplication and remote replication.
Mainframe tape backup and recovery, storage management and data sharing
applications work without modification with the Channel Gateway enabled
storage.

“Terasystem is extremely pleased to provide
Luminex’s solutions to customers in Italy, Spain and Portugal,” stated
Raffaele Persico, Terasystem’s chairman and CEO. “ We have been growing
since our foundation in 1994, building strong IT experience and putting
ourselves on customer’s side, by always choosing solutions that best
fit their problems. Luminex provides a number of unique features which
I’m sure will make a significant difference in our ability to satisfy
our customer needs in the mainframe space."

Luminex Software, Inc.

Terasystem S.p.A.