| The Channel Gateway is the breakthrough product that enables mainframe users to unlock the proprietary boundaries that have kept the mainframe from leveraging the technology advancements available to open systems environments. Through the Channel Gateway, every type of open systems disk, virtual tape library, physical tape and tape library (Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS) can be channel-attached to the mainframe via native ESCON and FICON. The competitive landscape is now leveled for the mainframe. The Channel Gateway presents itself to the mainframe as native ESCON or FICON channel-attached devices (such as 3480, 3490 or 3590 tape drives). Mainframe applications and tape management software read and write, to and from the Channel Gateway without change. ESCON and FICON traffic is translated at wire speed to the open systems protocol (FC, iSCSI and/or NAS) with no MIPS overhead, no bottlenecks and no impact to the mainframe. The storage infrastructure is wide-open, allowing you to pick the best-fit for your requirements. Gone are the days of forced vendor lock-in to highly proprietary mainframe storage solutions!
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