ETI-NET brings together the best features of its BCOM^® and EZX-BackBox^® products to offer the new EZX-Gateway^®. EZX-Gateway provides Fibre channel-based, zero latency file transfer between HP NonStop and IBM mainframes without the need for expensive network bandwidth.  Extending NonStop fundamentals of fault-tolerance and linear expandability, EZX-Gateway ensures that data is reliably transferred across systems with minimum complexity and system overhead within the available time window, no matter how massive the data quantities involved.

 

EZX-Gateway provides an easy-to-implement solution to the real-world problems faced by the multi-platform application architectures in banking, retailing, telecommunications, stock exchanges, and hospitals, where large volumes of online data must move into an IBM mainframe on a daily or hourly basis.  By exploiting HP StorageWorks XPä Disk Arrays as shared repositories for the data to be exchanged, EZX-Gateway is able to construct an end-to-end transfer environment that affords new levels of performance while continuing the reliable operation and ease-of-use traditionally associated with all ETI-NET products.

 

Perhaps more important than speed is the ability of EZX to manage the transfer across platforms in a unified and simple way - from a single NonStop-based management application. The EZX product incorporates all the mature management functionality of ETI-NET’s BCOM for control and monitoring of movement of files via multiple fibre-channel based data-mover subsystems using EZX-BackBox, ETI-NET’s field-proven tape virtualization engine.

 

Issues Solved by the EZX-Gateway

·        Ever growing volumes of data to move to and from mainframes each night or hour.

·          Ever shrinking time windows to accomplish the transfers.

·          No path for linear growth as data volumes grow over time.

·         No tolerance for failures in transfers that would result in violation of time windows.

·          Overloaded corporate LANs

·     High TCP/IP processing overhead in NonStop and mainframe systems.

·          Complex management of transfer process on disparate systems.

·          Inaccessible data until transfers complete.

·          ASCII-EBCDIC translation

 

EZX Gateway Advantages

·          Shared use of SAN-based storage across multiple systems

·          Expandable to multiple terabytes per hour

·          Fault tolerant design with context-free data-mover subsystems.

·          Dynamic routing of transfers for load balancing.

·          Zero latency transfers to IBM datasets

·          Unified management of transfers across multiple systems.

·          User-friendly browser-based management.

·          Tape-based data transfer model for compatibility and simplicity.