Jerry Percell This is Me

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1. 1. Unisphere Magazine Online

   www.unispheremag.com/5_minute_ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2004   Last Visited: 8/13/2004

   ..... "This is a great day for mainframe," Jerry Percell, product marketing manager at StorageTek, told 5 Minute Briefing. "We've been seeing a shift in interest to higher capacity, and we have the'capacity centric' T9940B tape drive." ..... The T9940B is equipped with a native FICON interface for seamless connectivity and high-performance tape storage in zOS (MVS) environments. With the addition of the dual port FICON interface to the currently available ESCON and Fibre Channel interfaces, StorageTek continues to offer the ultimate in data reliability during heavy-duty, 24 x 7 use. The T9940B offers an unsurpassed solution for data-intensive applications, such as backup, recovery, archiving, and off-site storage. ..... "The mainframe community has such good, solid standards that it's easy to play well with everyone," Percell noted.

2. 2. DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Center - January 10, 2005

   www.databasetrends.com/datacen - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/16/2003   Last Visited: 3/28/2004

   "This is a third generation drive," Jerry Percell, senior product marketing manager, automated tape solutions at StorageTek, told 5 Minute Briefing in an exclusive interview. "We have doubled the capacity and provide the same access speeds and throughput." .... According to Percell, many z/OS-centric data centers are beginning to migrate for ESCON connectivity to FICON, which combines ESCON protocols with Fiber Channel connectivity. Customers moving from T9840 ESCON drives or T9840B FICON drives will have complete media compatibility when utilizing the T9840C FICON, StorageTek officials noted. Moreover, MVS customers transitioning from ESCON to FICON connectivity can double their throughput and gain 10 times more cabling distances for applications such as disaster recovery/business continuity or data transmission to offsite data centers. .... StorageTek's T9840C features a 12-second average data access time, 30 MB/second data throughput for faster backup and restores, and 40 GB/cartridge capacity (uncompressed as well as the company's proprietary VolSafe advanced WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) technology designed to support today's stringent electronic data storage regulatory mandates. "The need for write once technology is increasing," Percell noted.

3. 3. DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Center - March 23, 2004

   www.dbta.com/datacenter/archiv - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/23/2004   Last Visited: 6/22/2004

   "This is a third generation drive," Jerry Percell, senior product marketing manager, automated tape solutions at StorageTek, told 5 Minute Briefing in an exclusive interview. "We have doubled the capacity and provide the same access speeds and throughput." .... According to Percell, many z/OS-centric data centers are beginning to migrate for ESCON connectivity to FICON, which combines ESCON protocols with Fiber Channel connectivity. Customers moving from T9840 ESCON drives or T9840B FICON drives will have complete media compatibility when utilizing the T9840C FICON, StorageTek officials noted. Moreover, MVS customers transitioning from ESCON to FICON connectivity can double their throughput and gain 10 times more cabling distances for applications such as disaster recovery/business continuity or data transmission to offsite data centers. .... StorageTek's T9840C features a 12-second average data access time, 30 MB/second data throughput for faster backup and restores, and 40 GB/cartridge capacity (uncompressed as well as the company's proprietary VolSafe advanced WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) technology designed to support today's stringent electronic data storage regulatory mandates. "The need for write once technology is increasing," Percell noted.