Hitachi Vantara (hidden with custom CSS)
Channel Gateways have been installed in mainframe environments with Hitachi Vantara storage products since 2006, providing one of the industry’s leading mainframe virtual tape solutions. Hitachi storage systems offer high data availability, dynamic I/O load balancing to eliminate throughput bottlenecks, and non-disruptive capacity, connectivity and performance upgrades. Luminex’s Mainframe Virtual Tape (MVT) with Hitachi Storage Systems provides highly available, high performance solutions to overcome the limits and liabilities of aging and resource-intensive physical tape environments.
Mainframe Virtual Tape Solutions
Private Cloud Storage for Mainframes
Lenovo (hidden with custom CSS)
Lenovo is one of the largest providers of computing equipment in the world. Luminex MVT solutions with Lenovo storage provides mainframe data centers easy to manage, simple to scale, always-available enterprise-grade virtual tape storage solutions that adapt to growing environments, fit into existing budgets, and ensure data is ready when you need it.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hidden with custom CSS)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proven and trusted Enterprise Storage systems offer extensible, resilient, and high performance storage solutions for mission critical applications. They offer maximum scalability, industry-leading performance, and unmatched data protection and disaster tolerant features. Luminex’s Mainframe Virtual Tape with HPE Enterprise Storage allows mainframe data centers to eliminate or reduce physical tape while improving all aspects of tape operations, including batch processing, HSM/archiving, and backup and recovery.
NetApp (hidden with custom CSS)
NetApp is a leading vendor of innovative storage and data management solutions that help organizations around the world store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious assets: their data. Luminex MVT solutions with NetApp storage provide mainframe data centers with highly scalable, cost-effective and reliable virtual tape environments, providing across-the-board improvements for tape operations and disaster recovery preparedness.
VelociData (hidden with custom CSS)
VelociData’s ESCA is the industry’s first Enterprise Streaming Compute Appliance, backed by more than 40 patents and proven in the most demanding computing environments for over a decade. ESCA rapidly cleanses, transforms, and protects streaming and batch data without the need for database or applications programming and without the need to change existing systems or infrastructure. VelociData’s customers include Fortune 500 companies in Finance, Insurance, Health Care, and Retail.
Quantum (hidden with custom CSS)
Quantum is a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, providing specialized storage solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. From small businesses to major enterprises, more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to help maximize the value of their data by protecting and preserving it over its entire lifecycle. Luminex MVT solutions with Quantum DXi storage enable mainframe data centers to replicate tape data efficiently with bandwidth-optimizating deduplication technology and with exceptional read/write performance.
Emulex (hidden with custom CSS)
Emulex is a leading provider of Fibre Channel connectivity products. Luminex leverages the technology advancements and leadership of the Emulex FC HBA product line with our core FICON processing software as the OEM platform for FICON connectivity. Emulex products are available worldwide.
Confluent (hidden with custom CSS)
Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Luminex’s MDI zKonnect enables enterprises to transform their mainframe application data and z/OS system data into event streams on the Confluent Platform to feed distributed applications, microservices and other business processes.
IBM (hidden with custom CSS)
IBM® is the leading provider of mainframe systems. These systems are used to improve operational efficiency in all major industries. IBM mainframes are used to process 75 percent of the world’s business data.
As an IBM Business Partner, Luminex provides the virtual tape control units used in the IBM ProtecTIER® Mainframe Edition (ME) virtual tape solutions. These Luminex control units can also be configured with other IBM Systems Storage disk products.
Cohesity (hidden with custom CSS)
Cohesity‘s unique approach to enterprise storage eliminates mass data fragmentation by providing a single web-scale data management platform to manage the vast majority of an organization’s data—backups, file shares, object stores, and data used for dev/test and analytics. Luminex solutions with Cohesity storage enable data centers to “Do More” with their mainframe data, from protection and archiving with Luminex MVT to data sharing and integration with Luminex MDI.
Platform Modernization Alliance (hidden with custom CSS)
for Microsoft® Azure®
Luminex is a Platform Modernization Alliance (PMA) partner providing secure, high speed solutions for data integration between mainframes and big data technologies, such as Microsoft Azure data lakes. Luminex’s MDI BigData Transfer solution enables clients to obtain an enterprise-wide view of mainframe and distributed systems data for analytics, leading to better insight and competitive advantages.
INFINIDAT (hidden with custom CSS)
INFINIDAT helps clients achieve competitive business advantage at a disruptive price point by delivering 1M IOPS of performance, 99.99999% reliability and over 5 PBs of effective capacity in a single rack. Automated provisioning, management, and application integration provide a system that is incredibly efficient and easy to deploy and manage. INFINIDAT is changing the paradigm of enterprise storage while reducing capital requirements, operational overhead, and complexity.
FalconStor (hidden with custom CSS)
FalconStor provides an integrated and comprehensive suite of enterprise-class solutions that provide complete data protection, from the remote office to the data center. FalconStor’s File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) can be combined with Luminex Channel Gateways to offer mainframe virtual tape solutions with exceptional advantages for mainframe data centers.
Mainline (hidden with custom CSS)
Mainline, headquartered in Tallahassee, FL, is an information technology solutions and IT consulting firm and has more than 500 employees nationwide. Mainline has received many industry accolades, including VMware Global Desktop Virtualization Partner of the Year, Red Hat North American Partner of the Year, multiple IBM Leadership Awards and an HP Virtualization Elite partner designation. Mainline provides solutions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Brazil.
ViON (hidden with custom CSS)
ViON Corporation (ViON) is a fourty-one year veteran-owned company that specializes in designing, delivering, and maintaining storage and server solutions to high performance, enterprise-wide data centers throughout federal, state and local governments. ViON excels in solutions addressing tiered storage and server requirements, virtualization, data protection, Capacity Services, Cloud and Big Data missions, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. All solutions can be provided as-a-service in the customer’s data center.
Entisys360 (hidden with custom CSS)
Entisys360 is the West Coast’s premier expert in the deployment and delivery of advanced IT infrastructure, virtualization and cloud solutions. With more than two decades of experience, Entisys360 has become a trusted advisor to some of the most prominent companies in California. Offering comprehensive Professional Support Services, complementary managed services, consulting and engineering services—Entisys360 serves mid-tier and enterprises within the healthcare, financial services and legal services sectors, as well as educational institutions and government agencies. Entisys is one of multiple companies awarded California Enterprise Technology Contracts by the State of California. California state and participating local government agencies can now source enterprise technology solutions from Luminex at pre-negotiated contract pricing.
Recovery Point (hidden with custom CSS)
Recovery Point is a national provider of IT solutions focused on business continuity, disaster recovery, managed hosting and robust, carrier neutral network services. Delivered from the most secure and resilient recovery facilities in the industry, Recovery Point helps clients plan and execute robust recovery testing programs and recover business operations quickly and economically in the event of a significant, unplanned interruption of IT infrastructure. Recovery Point and Luminex have formed a strategic partnership to bring Mainframe Cloud Recovery as a Service featuring Luminex’s mainframe virtual tape solutions.
Cognizant (hidden with custom CSS)
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Their unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
GlassHouse Systems (hidden with custom CSS)
Established in 1993, GlassHouse Systems provides mainframe infrastructure assessments, project management, planning and pre-sales services, in addition to IaaS and RIMS. GHS’ highly trained and certified technical teams design, build, and implement a wide array of robust mainframe solutions for some of the largest enterprises within the US and Canada.
PSR (hidden with custom CSS)
For 40 years, PSR has focused on mainframe services and sales and is recognized for its mainframe systems programming expertise. In addition to providing hosting, hot sites and disaster recovery centers, PSR is an authorized reseller of Luminex Mainframe Virtual Tape solutions, including CGX and MVT, and is a Luminex Authorized Disaster Recovery Center (ADRC).
International Resellers
Hitachi – Sub-Saharan Africa
Hitachi – Sub Saharan Africa (formerly Shoden Data Systems) is a full service provider of Hitachi storage solutions.
Mainframe Virtual Tape Solutions
Private Cloud Storage for Mainframes
Kladann Informática Ltda (hidden with custom CSS)
Kladann Informática Ltda, has provided the Brazilian market with data processing equipment and services since 1989. Kladann specializes in the IBM System z platform, providing the technical and business knowledge necessary to deploy virtualization and automation solutions for tape libraries on IBM System z. Kladann has partnered with Luminex since 2003, is an authorized Channel Gateway X (CGX) reseller and is prepared to provide a complete solution and comprehensive analysis that involves the client’s needs, data migration, hardware maintenance and detailed monitoring after installation.
Speed Computing (hidden with custom CSS)
Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Speed Computing has been a Luminex reseller for mainframe virtual tape solutions since 2009. As an authorized reseller of Luminex Channel Gateways (CGX), Speed Computing has the expertise to provide consulting, installation assistance and support for Luminex solutions in Taiwan.
Data Sciences Corporation (hidden with custom CSS)
Data Sciences Corporation is a provider of storage, backup and disaster recovery services and solutions throughout South Africa and is an authorized Luminex reseller to integrate, resell and support Luminex mainframe virtual tape solutions.
Intercom (hidden with custom CSS)
Intercom has been a worldwide provider of channel and storage solutions for the IBM mainframe environment since 1975. Based in Germany, Intercom resells Luminex’s Mainframe Virtual Tape products throughout Europe and abroad.
Solvan (hidden with custom CSS)
Solvan is a leading provider of full service IT and data protection solutions for SAN, NAS and traditional LAN environments in Mexico and Central America. Solvan is an authorized reseller of EMC|Data Domain, Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade and Luminex’s Mainframe Virtual Tape Channel Gateways.