The Nexus Storage Gateway from ICM will run FalconStor’s IPStor Enterprise Edition software, which is used to create a single storage infrastructure based on SAN and NAS devices operating over Fibre Channel, IP, SCSI, and iSCSI protocols.
In addition to providing connectivity services, the IPStor software also offers active-active failover, synchronous mirroring, remote replication, dynamic multipathing, and other high availability features for the storage devices in its storage pool, which is why ICM is interested in creating the gateway for the iSeries.
ICM claims that it is the leading independent supplier of services for the IBM midrange in the UK, and it wants to be able to more easily administer the iSeries servers and their storage that it manages on behalf of customers and to schedule the journaling of disk images, mirroring of disk data, and replication of data between systems. ICM has not said when the Nexus gateway will be available, what it will cost, or if it will try to sell it outside of the UK.
