Bus-Tech and Compellent Together to Deliver Mainframe VTL/SAN Solution

Bus-Tech, Inc., a leading provider of Virtual Tape solutions for mainframe environments today announced the interoperability of Bus-Tech’s Mainframe Data Library (MDL) with Compellent‘s Storage Center storage area network. Interoperability was confirmed based on testing at Bus-Tech’s laboratory in Burlington, MA.

"Successfully completing interoperability testing between MDL and Storage Center provides customers with assurance of smooth integration," stated Bus-Tech President, Al Brandt. "By partnering with Compellent, Bus-Tech is once again enabling mainframe customers access to the benefits of leading edge technology from the open systems storage market."

"By teaming with Bus-Tech, we’re enabling customers to extend their investments in the Compellent SAN to their mainframe environments," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing and product management at Compellent. "The highly scalable, modular design of the combined solution can meet the needs of any size mainframe installation."

As part of the certification process for the Compellent SAN, the MDL was tested with the Compellent Storage Center in dual FICON and ESCON configurations and attached via Fibre Channel to the Storage Center. The combined solution underwent stress and functionality tests to help ensure users can perform normal tape processing without any changes to their existing applications or JCL. The MDL is available in combination with the Compellent Storage Center to provide a cost effective solution for using disk for mainframe backup and enhanced batch processing.

Kevin Hanlon, President of ComSource, Inc., a reseller of both Bus-Tech and Compellent storage products added, "We are excited about offering this enterprise solution of MDL and Storage Center to our customers who are seeking to improve data center efficiency and reduce costs. MDL offers simplicity and efficiency to our mainframe tape customers by eliminating costs, administration and risks associated with tape media. This is complemented by Storage Center which brings affordable enterprise class SAN storage with leadership thin provisioning, automated tiered storage and thin replication features. This flexible solution offers outstanding value to both our small and large enterprise customers."