Author Archives: Steve Ramos

Luminex and Nirvanix Introduce World’s First Cloud-Based Tape Vaulting Solution for Mainframe Environments

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide leader in Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape™ solutions, and Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced the world’s first cloud-based tape vaulting solution designed specifically for mainframe environments. No longer limited to open or distributed systems, now mainframe customers can securely store mainframe tape volumes in the…

LUMINEX Establishes Business Operations in Asia-Pacific

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide leader in Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape™ solutions, announced today that it has established LUMINEX Software Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary, in Hong Kong and hired Kee Wing Wong, as Director, Sales and Technical Services for Asia-Pacific. Kee Wing has over 18 years of experience in mainframe storage sales and technical services.…

LUMINEX Attracts Mainframe Industry Luminaries Adding to Its Industry Leading Mainframe Virtual Tape Expertise

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide market leader in mainframe virtual tape solutions, announced today that Joel Kimball has joined the company as its Vice President, North American Sales. Joel has 33 years of experience in mainframe storage sales and marketing, with the last 12 years in Executive Management positions for StorageTek, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation. Joel’s…

LUMINEX announces Channel Gateway X, Sets The Performance Standard For Mainframe Virtual Tape

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide market leader in mainframe virtual tape for data deduplication storage systems, announced today at the SHARE IBM User Group an enhanced version of its Channel Gateway mainframe virtual tape product that outperforms all other industry solutions by 2x to 5x or more. The new Channel Gateway “X” version provides near link-speed virtual tape performance,…

The Mainframe Tapeless Revolution Continues

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide leader in mainframe virtual tape for data deduplication storage systems, announced today that mainframe datacenters are continuing their migration to tapeless storage systems and turning to LUMINEX’s Channel Gateways as the preferred solution to reduce or eliminate physical tape in their datacenter operations. LUMINEX is also announcing that 2010 was the best…

LUMINEX Announces Enterprise Enhancements for Mainframe Virtual Tape with Data Deduplication Storage Systems

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., the worldwide market leader in mainframe virtual tape for data deduplication storage systems, announced today the general availability of its LUMINEX Tape Monitor software (LTMon™) for mainframe virtual tape systems, the latest in a continuing line of enhancements to LUMINEX’s Channel Gateway mainframe virtual tape products designed to further improve its capabilities for enterprise…

Shoden’s Appointment to Resell LUMINEX Channel Gateways Extended to All of Europe

Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that its appointment by Luminex Software, Inc., the developer and provider of the Channel Gateway Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape Products, as Luminex’s reseller for the United Kingdom has been strengthened further by expanding the agreement to cover all of Europe.…

LUMINEX Enhances Mainframe Deduplication Disaster Recovery Management

LUMINEX, developer and provider of the Channel Gateway Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape products, announced today enhanced enterprise features of their Channel Gateway products.  These new features and capabilities include real-time local and remote status monitoring of tape availability and integrity at a remote disaster recovery location and “Synchronous Copy” capability in which local tape operations…

LUMINEX Partners with GovPlace for Mainframe Virtual Tape Upgrades for the Public Sector

LUMINEX SOFTWARE, INC., a leading developer and provider of modern mainframe virtual tape products, announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Govplace, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions for the public sector, as a full service channel partner for LUMINEX’s Channel Gateway products for distribution to federal, state and local governments.…

LUMINEX Announces FICON Technology Partnership with Océ Printing Systems

LUMINEX Software, Inc., a leading developer and provider of mainframe connectivity technologies and virtual tape products, and Océ Printing Systems, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announced today that Océ has integrated and fully certified LUMINEX’s FICON mainframe channel connectivity solution in Océ’s high performance data center class of mainframe digital printers. Océ…