Can your data center handle expanding SLAs, shrinking backup windows, and SEC compliance?
Fast response times are critical to meeting competitive service level agreements (SLAs) and to satisfying a growing array of regulatory requirements. The Mainframe Data Library (MDL) reduces your dependence on tape-based archive technology.
Respond quickly to SEC requests.
When you need to initiate fast, efficient electronic discovery for SEC compliance, the MDL can fulfill tape mount requests with sub-second response times and maintains relative block offsets to get to fixed content quickly, so end-to-end transactions can be completed in seconds.
Meet and exceed service level agreements.
To help you balance service level agreements and shrinking backup windows, a single MDL can provide over 1,000MB/s throughput, and multiple MDLs can be combined for even higher performance. Dynamic scaling lets you add additional channels or backend storage without interrupting tape processing. And because the MDL is a true VTL for mainframe environments, you don't have to wait for a tape drive, or be delayed by robotic mechanics and tape rewinds.
Stay SEC-compliant with low-cost disk solutions.
Native support for compliant storage from EMC (Centera), Network Appliance (SnapLock), and Hitachi's Content Archive Platform (HCAP) allows you to deploy low-cost disk solutions that meet or exceed SEC directives regarding maintaining data in its original form. And with the MDL's sub-second mounts and time-to-first-byte capability, you can store massive amounts of data and retrieve it quickly, without expanding your primary DASD storage pools.
Avoid re-architecture of your fixed-content applications.
Fixed-content applications such as Mobius, On-Demand, and ImagePlus are historically slow once the data migrates to tape and it becomes necessary to access this data by a batch process. Developers are pushing users to revamp their applications and access this data via TCP/IP, but you can gain comparable response-time improvements from your existing batch applications by replacing your tape infrastructure with the MDL.