with luminex corporation . luminex software inc. modern mainframe virtual tape industry mainframe data storage founded 1994 headquarters riverside california united states area served worldwide products channel gateway product family data ware product family website www.luminex.com luminex software inc. is a developer and provider of disk based mainframe virtual tape products and technologies for backup archive and disaster recovery . contents 1 history 2 products 3 operations 4 references history edit luminex was founded in 1994 1 by brian hawley michael saunders and arthur tolsma . 2 in 2000 luminex acquired and merged the data ware product line and technical staff . then in 2002 luminex acquired and merged the polaris product line and technical staff . 3 in 2007 luminex and data domain announced a partnership to provide virtual tape library solutions with deduplication for mainframes . 4 products edit channel gateway is a family of products that provide mainframe access to disk based open systems storage by acting as a tape control unit and presenting the storage as virtual tape drives emulating ibm 3490 3590 via ficon or escon channels . datastream intelligence 5 a feature of channel gateway separates virtual tape data and metadata inline for higher deduplication and compression rates when written to storage with deduplication capabilities such as ibm protectier hp storonce quantum dxi and emc data domain systems . this configuration enables data compression rates upwards of 20 1 6 versus traditional tape hardware compression of 3 1 . 7 data ware is a family of products that provide optical based nearline data access distribution publishing and archiving for mainframe and unix environments . operations edit in february 2008 luminex software partnered with terasystem s.p.a. the largest data storage system integrator in italy as its full service channel partner for its ground breaking channel gateway products in italy spain and portugal . 8 references edit luminex official website luciano adams beige . luminex thrives in transition to virtual tape storage the business press luminex official website data domain and luminex partner to address mainframe users data protection needs luminex datastream intelligence luminex channel gateways replace orange county s mainframe physical tape infrastructure database trends and applications magnetic tape data storage data compression wikipedia luminex partners with terasystem . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title luminex software inc. & oldid 735952583 categories software companies based in californiacompanies based in californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 august 2016 at 05 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view