The Computer Room/Tape Library provides operational support for all centrally located computing systems including:

• zOS
• zVM
• IMS
• DB2
• USCAN
• VIP
• OnDemand
• Content Manager
• TSO

For a more complete list see: http://uts.sc.edu/ars/handouts/software.html

Hardware for these systems include:

• Hitachi 9980V Storage Array Subsystem (50 TB RAID-5 Storage)
• Hitachi AMS storage Array Subsystem (120 TB RAID-5 Storage),
• 2 Cisco 9509 Fiber channel directors,
• 2 CISCO 9513 Fiber channel directors (to provide a storage area network for up 432 network ports).
• (220) Infrastructure to hosted servers attached to the Storage area network, network with UPS power.
• Operating systems supported: Solaris, Windows, Linux, and Novell
• (1) IBM 3494 Automated Tape Library with (10) 3590-B1A Tape Drives (1000 cartridge capacity, 60 GB/cartridges compressed) on the native side and
  (6) 3590-H1A Tape Drives (1200 cartridge capacity, up to 180 GB/cartridge compressed) on the virtual side.
•  (1) SCANTRON Clarity

Computer room personnel operate twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. They work with various groups on such items as: data communication problems, backbone problems, hardware and software problems. This group also maintains the Tape Library which houses approximately thirty thousand real and virtual tape volumes with a mixture of IBM type tapes and cartridges. This area is staffed on a rotating basis by the first shift Computer Room staff.