| Industry | Mainframe data storage |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Riverside, California, USA |
| Area served | Worldwide |
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| 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.
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]
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 rates when written to storage with deduplication capabilities, such as Data Domain systems. This configuration enables data compression rates upwards of 20:1[5] versus traditional tape hardware compression of 3:1.[6]
Data|WARE is a family of products that provide optical-based nearline data access, distribution, publishing and archiving for mainframe and UNIX environments.