eWeek: Sistina, Mainline Team on Linux on the Mainframe

“Storage company Sistina Software and solutions provider
Mainline Information Systems Inc. have formed an alliance to
deliver a Linux-based data-sharing solution for the IBM S/390 and
zSeries platforms.

“The companies have ported the Sistina Global File System (GFS)
to the IBM eServer zSeries platform for the SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server. Sistina’s GFS is an enterprise-class cluster file system on
Linux that enables data-sharing solutions for organizations
requiring high performance, scalable and robust storage
solutions.

“‘GFS allows a customer to avoid dead-end architectures by
allowing them to incrementally add more compute power and more
storage and I/O capacity without having to stop and re-architect
the application environment,’ said Joaquin Ruiz, vice president of
product management at Sistina, in an interview…”

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