Today, IBM had another two announcements on withdrawal from marketing of certain tape related products.
From the first announcement 'Hardware withdrawal: IBM System Storage Tape and Media models and selected features - Some replacements available (ZG11-0248)' I mainly retain the witdrawal from marketing of the mainframe related TS1120 Tape Controller Model C06. This becomes effective November 25, 2011 as it's replaced by the recently announced C07 Model.
There's a second announcement focusing on the 3494 Tape Library : 'Hardware withdrawal: Selected features for IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library - No replacements available (ZG11-0264)'. These withdrawals become effective February 24, 2012. As you might expect, no replacements. And to be honest, I assumed most of these features were already withdrawn from marketing. So, they are now.
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Looking at the list of withdrawals is like a look into the past, stuff like 2 Gbps FICON adapters and 3590 upgrades. I suspect that the stock of upgrade kits to support these features is finally running down so IBM is finally withdrawing them. In every case there is newer technology available.
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