VME Support

June 21, 2010 – The rate of enhancement to tape technology has increased dramatically over the past few years. This has provided both increased capacity and throughput, enabling the adoption of small, more cost-effective library solutions, and delivery of significant operational savings. The availability of industry standard devices such as LTO has delivered much improved cost of ownership to all users.As customers update their tape drives to these more modern technologies, the number of older technology tape devices falls below the critical level at which our OEM suppliers are able to provide the appropriate level of support. Exabyte (Tandberg) has announced End of Service dates for the 221L Tape Library devices. As a result, Fujitsu is also unable to provide such support.These tape devices are now approaching the end of their serviceable life and it has become necessary to withdraw support for these devices. For details see MB/10/004 in the Marketing Bulletin section.

June 18, 2010 – Fujitsu tracks the availability of superNOVA host operating systems from their manufacturers. From time to time, new versions are released and Fujitsu develops new VITAE Host Options so that they may be supported. Correspondingly, the older versions are later withdrawn from sale. For details see MB/10/003 in the Marketing Bulletin section.

April 23, 2010 – superNOVA Maintenance Pack 9 is now available and can be ordered from the Fujitsu VME Support website.

April 22, 2010 – Two new VITAE Host Options are now available.

April 15, 2010 – Details of the Support Status of OpenVME Superstructure Products is available in ION S68, which has been updated and published in the ION section.