IBM announced that, for the first time, it is adding a deduplication appliance to its System z mainframe server. The new feature sports a rather verbose moniker: System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z.
– One doesn’t often hear the IT terms quot;mainframe quot; and quot;deduplication quot;
used in the same context, or even the same sentence. But IBM is now
connecting those dots.

IBM said Feb. 24 that, for the first time, it is adding deduplication
to its System z mainframe server. The new…