Storage, A Fifty Year Perspective

Project and Program: MVS, MVS Storage Management

Tags: Proceedings , SHARE Phoenix 2019 , 2019

In March of 2019. I will celebrate the 50th anniversary of my first SHARE meeting. At that time, I was a Co-Op student working in system programming at Ashland Oil to pay for my engineering degree at Virginia Tech. I left for my first SHARE to learn about the next release of OS/MVT, talk to other sites about how they were cost justifying the movement of key application data from tape to disk, learn more about the 360/65, and share our experiences about an attempted move of the production LOADLIB from a 2314 volume to a Data Cell. Looking back today, I recall the countless concepts, ideas, and innovations, both failures and successes, that paved the road to where we are today. In this session, I will share those observations, take stock of the state of mainframe data storage, talk about the wicked problems that still defy solution today, and the issues that we will face in future decades.-Pat Artis-Performance Associates

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