CNT announces support for IBM's Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server over unlimited distancesMinneapolis 09 October 2001 CNT, a specialist in storage networking, has completed testing peer-to-peer network interoperability with IBM's TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS) solutions. The tests validate CNT's ability to link VTS systems together over unlimited distances for data mirroring, disaster recovery, and business continuity applications, and reflect IBM and CNT's history of working together to address data access across the enterprise and continued data availability and redundancy.
The Peer-to-Peer VTS allows users to link two VTS units into a single, interconnected system, maintaining two up-to-date copies of data. CNT's UltraNet Storage Directors, high-speed switching platforms that allow companies to move and share data among diverse servers and storage systems, were installed at two remote VTS sites.
Through the tests, CNT and IBM were able to demonstrate that this highly redundant tape solution creates a bi-directional mirroring environment where two production data centres can be backed up to each other on a real time basis. The solution can help increase efficiency by removing the mirroring process from the application server and freeing it up for normal application processing. The solution also help decrease the number of required tape drives, improves data access performance, and reduces use of tape cartridges.
Both IBM's Peer-to-Peer VTS and CNT's UltraNet Storage Director are generally available. Initially, the VTS model B18 with its approved code levels will be supported, with support of the newly released VTS software and models (B10 and B20) to follow.
The CNT UltraNet Storage Director is a multi-gigabit switching platform providing high-performance, scalable solutions that uniquely integrate channel technology, high-speed network technology and open systems hardware and software technology in a single platform. The UltraNet Director offers an open architecture incorporating industry standard hardware, network protocols, management and operating software to provide a tightly integrated, fault-tolerant, and highly manageable platform for use in mission critical storage networking applications.
The core of the UltraNet Director is its software platform which delivers alternate pathing, load leveling, and guaranteed data delivery, ensuring that the costly long distance links are fully utilised, the entire system is as robust as possible, and that the customer is absolutely ensured of the safety and integrity of their critical information.
The Peer-to-Peer VTS provides a tape processing solution that can be deployed by customers to provide either enhanced availability or used to significantly improve the disaster recovery process. The system is an evolution of the IBM VTS, which was the first Virtual Tape solution to address the inefficiencies of tape processing in large enterprises when it reached General Availability in 1997.
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