I've been spending a lot of time 'talking mainframe' lately. The rumored union of IBM and Sun seems to have stirred the pot on mainframe backup. IT managers that have relied on these companies for data protection want to know what's going to happen to tape silo and VTL products from both companies, some of which were already on their way to end of life or even end of support anyway.
The mainframe discussion is not new for Data Domain - we've had a strong partnership with Luminex for a few years now and are consistently winning business together. We recently published a new case study that highlights how the joint solution can get customers out of mainframe tape backup altogether - in this case retiring a number of expensive IBM tape drives and its VTS infrastructure. It's a good read unless of course you happen to be a tape vendor - perhaps a Dean Koontz novel would be a little less scary.
