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According to the company, Data-Shield offers a range of FICON migration services to help customers manage the process efficiently, at the same time avoiding the disruption and cost of upgrading the entire infrastructure to FICON.

For customers who need FICON connectivity, channel extension over ESCON or Fibre Channel over IP distance extension, the EMC Select program offers CNT products that have been tested in specific configurations.

The de facto standard in mainframe environments, the FICON protocol improves access performance by alleviating input/output bottlenecks.

The company claims that the new tape drive can be connected via the FICON interface to servers in the IBM zSeries product family.

The Symmetrix z8000 series delivers superior price/performance levels for mainframe storage applications in FICON and ESCON environments.

SANtegrity Binding is the first open authorization technique for SANs, a necessary element for implementing cascading in FICON environments, and extendable to open-system environments for applications where high-integrity storage networks are essential.

Brocade said its SilkWorm 48000, a 256-port SAN director, is qualified for FICON connectivity at 2Gb/s to networked storage in IBM zSystem 9-109 and eServer zSeries computing environments.