Sun ESCON-to-FICON Migration Service The Sun ESCON to FICON Migration Service leverages Sun's experience, proven methodologies, and best practices to offer an end-to-end solution for investigating, justifying, designing, planning, and successfully implementing a FICON solution. Key Benefits Provides an overview of FICON technology and possible benefits to your organization Offers an end-to-end solution to help you investigate, justify, design, plan, and implement a solution Leverages Sun's experience, proven methodologies, and best practices to help reduce risk Provides flexibility and choice so you can create a solution based on your unique requirements Helps you establish high-performance mainframe storage architectures and implement a new FICON environment Resources Sun ESCON-to-FICON Datasheet     Offerings Offerings Key Activities Migration workshop Expert FICON consultants meet with your mainframe storage team to discuss FICON technology and available solutions. A typical migration workshop agenda covers: Business issues and technology constraints that might drive your business to a FICON migration ESCON to FICON migration overview Real client case studies with results achieved Assessment process and possible next steps Architecture assessment Our experts review your full mainframe environment, including channels, switches/directors, remote replication infrastructure, disk, tape, and virtual tape solutions. We then conduct simulation modeling based on SMF/RMF data collected during the assessment to model FICON configurations. A recommendation is developed to provide a performance and cost optimized solution, which includes the design of a FICON infrastructure. Implementation We will deploy the new FICON environment, including cable plant design, project management, hardware gens (IOCP/HCD) and testing. Take the Next Step Contact your local Sun sales representative to learn how you can take advantage of Sun ESCON-to-FICON Services for a smooth migration as you update your storage environment. Contact Sun 1-800-786-0404 (US & Canada) 1-650-960-1300 (International)

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