Industry Mainframe data storage Website www.luminex.com | Area served Worldwide Founded 1994 | |
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Products Channel Gateway product family
Data|WARE product family Headquarters Riverside, California, United States Profiles | ||
Luminex Software, Inc. is a developer and provider of disk-based mainframe virtual tape products and technologies for backup, archive and disaster recovery.
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History
Luminex was founded in 1994 by Brian Hawley, Michael Saunders and Arthur Tolsma.
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.
In 2007, Luminex and Data Domain announced a partnership to provide virtual tape library solutions with deduplication for mainframes.
Products
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, 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 versus traditional tape hardware compression of 3:1.
Data|WARE is a family of products that provide optical-based nearline data access, distribution, publishing and archiving for mainframe and UNIX environments.
Operations
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.