The Business Continuity and Innovation of Hybrid Clouds

Organizations of all types and sizes accumulate a plethora of information. Most organizations store it — balances, reports, outputs from external sources, and various files — on hardware devices that are usually expensive Mainframe disks – Zsystems. The information is collected and preserved for years – regulations require preservation for 7 years, but many organizations, especially financial ones, retain data for up to 10 years. This is data with growing volumes, and its preservation becomes increasingly costly. However, there are alternatives that are much better and much cheaper.

Cloud Storage

Rocket Cloud Connector enables lowering storage costs and swiftly and efficiently recovering information in crashes and disasters, thus creating optimal business continuity.

RCC, operating on an S3 environment or similar object database environments, allows organizations significant storage cost reductions and ensures that their sensitive business data remains accessible, secure, and not prone to loss.

Methods of preserving and storing data on Mainframe inputs and systems may be high quality and stable. Yet, they are also expensive and complex and require complex maintenance due to a significant lack of skilled human resources proficient in handling them. As a result, different business entities encounter difficulties in adopting new technologies and delays in adopting tools for data analysis, data processing, and business intelligence.

RCC’s innovative yet simple solution allows organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud, manage their critical business data, and easily transfer it to the cloud. This intelligent process enables them to leverage the benefits of the most innovative technology in the field and achieve robust and important business continuity.

Rocket Cloud Connector and the new tape technologies allow a quality transfer process of z/OS® data from On-prem and data stored on tapes to the cloud or other local storage. All this enables significant cost savings and provides flexibility in data recovery processes for any DR site in disaster recovery scenarios.

Advantages:

Hybrid cloud support

Transfer and migration of Mainframe data and inputs to cloud storage – private or public – or on local storage devices.

Preservation of workflow processes

Existing workflow processes are not fundamentally changed. They simply target a new destination – cost-effective inputs instead of expensive ones used until now.

Accelerated processing time and reduced dependency on processors

Using zIIP processors saves MIPS costs and allows extremely fast use of business data.

Data recovery from anywhere

When data is stored and preserved in the cloud, their recovery becomes easy and simple in processes that can be performed anywhere.

Transparent data transfer

Using modern inputs, all data moves to the cloud easily, efficiently, and transparently, allowing it to be seen precisely as in local storage usage.

High-level security

In the data transfer process to the cloud via Rocket Cloud Connector, advanced encryption is used for high-quality and important data security.