IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7700

Highlights:

• Helps reduce the cost of data protection, including power, maintenance, operations and support staff
• Helps automate and reduce the complexity of IT operations using advanced policy management
• Supports business continuity through grid connectivity and automated replication
• TS7740 can help accelerate backups and restores by using a tiered hierarchy of disk and tape to make more efficient use of tape drives
• TS7720 provides a cache-centric solution for frequently accessed data

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To help maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, businesses need an infrastructure that can help manage data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive life cycle. Tape still provides the lowest total cost of ownership alternative for securely storing long-term archives for recordkeeping and disaster recovery. As data centres and data stores grow, tape operations can become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times and higher management overhead and costs.

IBM virtualisation Engine TS7700 is the solution

The IBM virtualisation Engine TS7700 is a family of mainframe virtual tape solutions that optimise tape processing and business continuance. Through the use of virtualisation and disk cache, the TS7700 is able to operate at disk speeds while maintaining compatibility with existing tape operations. One of the TS7700 configurations completely eliminates physical tape through the use of a deep disk cache repository. The other offers a fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape which takes advantage of both technologies to deliver performance for active data and best economics for inactive data. Lastly, the two technologies can be combined to provide a flexible policy-managed configuration that offers the benefits of both configurations. Deploying this innovative subsystem can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.