Interlink and IBM Collaborate on Storage Management

Strategic Insights -

Interlink Computer Sciences Inc. and IBM Corp. announced a collaborative effort to enhance the ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager software for MVS (ADSM/MVS), enabling it to operate with Interlink's TCPaccess communications software. This integration would allow customers using Interlink's TCP/IP implementation to utilize ADSM's features for backing up data to MVS mainframes. The new features would provide a high level of security for data throughout distributed networks, catering to customers in open systems environments.

Key Takeaways:

  • Interlink and IBM will collaborate to enhance ADSM/MVS, enabling it to operate with Interlink's TCPaccess communications software.
  • The integration would allow customers using Interlink's TCP/IP implementation to utilize ADSM's features for backing up data to MVS mainframes.
  • ADSM/MVS would provide a high level of security for data throughout distributed networks, catering to customers in open systems environments.
  • Interlink's TCPaccess provides the high-speed network transport between the host and the open systems network needed to back up data from LANs to hosts.
  • TCPaccess enables the MVS mainframe to have direct peer-to-peer network connectivity with the rest of a company's open systems network.
  • Interlink aims to provide enterprise-wide storage management for organizations that demand reliable and regular backup and recovery of distributed information.
  • Interlink's TCP/IP product breadth makes it a valuable partner to customers, enhancing its ability to help plan, build, and support open networks.
  • TCPaccess 2.1 supports more than 5,000 simultaneous 3270 TELNET sessions from more than 5,000 remote hosts.
  • ADSM/MVS, and other members of the ADSM family, provide an automated solution for managing network storage in a multiplatform, multivendor environment.
  • ADSM allows workstation users in such an environment to satisfy their critical needs for backup/recovery and archive/restore services in order to protect their files and directories against mishap.
  • IBM is the first in the industry to provide software needed to conduct automated, centralized backup and recovery operations from server platforms at any level within the enterprise.

Statistics:

  • ADSM/MVS will be available for customer evaluation in the first quarter of 1995.
  • General availability of ADSM/MVS with TCPaccess support is planned for the second quarter of 1995.
  • Interlink employs over 100 people worldwide.
  • Interlink products support more than 5,000 simultaneous 3270 TELNET sessions.
  • ADSM/MVS supports multiple client workstations operating more than ten different platforms in the same network.
  • Client platforms supported by ADSM/MVS include OS/2, DOS, Windows, Novell Netware, LANserver, and Macintosh, as well as AIX and other UNIX-based operating systems.

Sources:

  • Interlink Computer Sciences Inc.
  • IBM Corp.
  • Storage Systems Division, IBM Corp.
  • Lynn Yates, Storage Systems Division vice president, software products, IBM
  • Chuck Jepson, chief executive officer of Interlink Computer Sciences Inc.