Storage Management

Rocket Arkivio

ARKIVIO auto-migrator

Arkivio auto-migrator is an agentless data migration tool that allows organizations to painlessly transition to a consolidated file services environment based on the Hitachi NAS Platform. Arkivio auto-migrator can migrate data from any CIFS- or NFS-based file server or NAS device to the Hitachi NAS platform.

ARKIVIO auto-stor

ARKIVIO auto-stor is an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) software solution that effectively manages the explosive growth of unstructured data by integrating data and storage discovery, contextual classification, and automated management into one intelligent file system archiving solution. The software collects and analyzes detailed information about storage usage and the criticality of data within its lifecycle in order to classify and prioritize data and storage resources. Additionally, the solution enables administrators to create policies that automate data management (migration, move, copy, retention, and clean-up) to consolidate and optimize resources across a heterogeneous storage environment and improve operational efficiency.

ARKIVIO auto-xplor

ARKIVIO auto-xplor enables IT managers to collect detailed information about each device, volume, and file in a heterogeneous storage network, without requiring installation of server agents. When combined with Arkivio professional services, the solution enables IT managers to implement a detailed storage audit that gathers critical information and produces in-depth reports about the data storage environment. ARKIVIO auto-xplor identifies under-used storage, as well as volumes that are reaching full capacity in order to determine your precise storage requirements and avoid out-of-capacity occurrences. The solution also collects information about the value of your data over its lifecycle, such as space consumption by file types, last access, or modification time. By identifying and migrating less frequently accessed data off primary storage, IT managers can reduce the time required for backup and disaster recovery.

Rocket Mainstar

Mainstar Backup and Recovery Manager Suite

Mainstar Backup and Recovery Manager Suite for z/OS provides centralized backup, recovery, and application discovery.

Mainstar Catalog BaseLine

Mainstar Catalog BaseLine for z/OS supports disaster recovery on IBM System z (mainframe). It supports an empty catalog methodology at the disaster recovery site. The empty catalog methodology is cleaner, simpler and less prone to errors than taking populated catalogs and spending valuable time and resources cleaning out unwanted catalog entries. Catalog BaseLine backs up and recovers the necessary catalog structure including necessary ALIAS entries and all required information necessary to re-create and reconnect the enterprise's ICF User Catalogs to one, or to multiple master catalogs. Catalog BaseLine extracts and builds the necessary GDG Bases to re-create the enterprise's GDG Base definitions at the recovery site. With Catalog BaseLine, you can help ensure your system catalogs are ready for data recovery with the contents you expect them to have when the process begins.

Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus

Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus for z/OS delivers powerful features to help you audit, diagnose, recover, manage, and access your data assets, even in the event of unforeseen problems ranging from human errors to natural disasters. Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus provides 24X7 data access that can help you backup, recover, and forward recover integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalogs and virtual storage access method (VSAM) volume data sets (VVDS) quickly, safely, and comprehensively. You will achieve significantly better VSAM performance and identify direct access storage device (DASD) space savings by utilizing the MAP command for both VSAM KSDS and ICF catalogs. You can audit your basic catalog structure (BCS), VVDS, and volume table of contents (VTOC) structures with fix commands automatically generated for correction of all identified error conditions. Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus provides effective day-to-day ICF catalog management that can help you search across catalogs, volumes, or system-wide using over 100 data set attributes,  create data set reports from catalog and VTOC information with ease, and SIMULATE major commands, such as forward recovery and MERGECAT, to document procedures and verify results before executing them.

Mainstar CDS Expert

Mainstar CDS Expert for z/OS is a multifunctional control data set management tool providing you with the ability to perform required control data set maintenance while the DFSMShsm started task is active. No application outage is required to maintain your data. This product reduces the possibility of control data set corruption caused by human error. CDS Expert also provides additional key functionality so users can increase CDS size, alter attributes, change volumes and more. CDS Expert provides a highly interactive and flexible method of managing and reporting on DFSMShsm control data sets. This product enables you to perform a control data set reorg, enlarge a control data set, modify file attributes, and move a control data set to a new volume while the application is active. It also enables you to run automated tasks, and access DFSMShsm reporting tools.

Mainstar Database Backup and Recovery for DB2

Mainstar Database Backup and Recovery for DB2 on z/OS is a storage-aware backup and recovery solution that integrates storage processor fast-replication facilities with DB2 backup and recovery operations to allow instantaneous backups, reduce recovery time and simplify disaster recovery procedures while using less CPU, I/O, and storage resources.

Mainstar Database Backup and Recovery for IMS

Mainstar Database Backup and Recovery for IMS on z/OS is a storage-aware backup and recovery solution that integrates storage processor fast-replication facilities with IMS backup and recovery operations to allow instantaneous backups, reduce recovery time, and simplify disaster recovery procedures while using less CPU, I/O, and storage resources.

Mainstar Fast Table Space Refresh for DB2

Fast Table Space Refresh (FTR) for DB2 on z/OS clones DB2 table and index spaces quickly by data set, using any fast or slow copy facility. FTR automates manual processes, such as object ID translation between source and target subsystems. FTR is a selectable feature of Mainstar VCR.

Mainstar FastAudit

Mainstar FastAudit for z/OS delivers a set of auditing commands that supports the health of the control data sets. FastAudit helps you keep your IBM System z environment trouble-free with fast, accurate, and flexible audits. With FastAudit, storage administrators can maintain healthy metadata environments and prevent temporary or permanent loss of data access. FastAudit provides extremely fast and accurate audits and diagnostics, as well as automatic corrective actions to resolve error conditions.

Mainstar HSM Reporter/Manager

Mainstar HSM Reporter/Manager for z/OS provides accurate daily and historical information. Details provided in the Health Reports allow your storage administrators to know what scheduled DFSMShsm work was completed and what was not completed.

Mainstar Rapid Database Refresh for IMS

Mainstar Rapid Database Refresh (RDR) for IMS on z/OS clones IMS databases quickly by data set using any fast or slow copy facility. RDR also reduces manual steps.

Mainstar Storage Manager

Mainstar Storage Manager for z/OS creates an interactive, analytical representation of your site's entire DASD population, collecting and sorting DASD volume and data set information. You can drill down to specific detail without combing through reports. In addition, Storage Manager offers flexible reporting options that present DASD volume and data set information in online or batch reports, formatted in any sequence or combination. Summary reports enable a quick evaluation so that corrective actions can be taken against selected data.

Mainstar SYSchange

Mainstar SYSchange for z/OS protects your system software with a secure and accountable process for implementing member changes and automates changes between sites.

Mainstar VCR for DB2

Mainstar VCR for DB2 on z/OS clones DB2 subsystems quickly by volume-level, using any fast copy or onsite mirroring tool. VCR also takes care of updating all of the cloned DB2 internals, resulting in a clone that is ready in minutes versus days.

Mainstar VSAM Manager

Mainstar VSAM Manager for z/OS analyzes logical record to CI relationships to check for potential efficiency problems, requested and achieved distributed FREESPACE within CIs and CAs, and DASD space utilization of the data set. It also provides information that identifies where record insertion activity is occurring within the file to show where CA splits have been done and how many are at each location.

Rocket Servergraph

Servergraph Professional Chargeback

Servergraph Professional Chargeback provides a totally flexible and customizable billing model by allowing companies to create separate billing rates for different tape media, onsite versus offsite storage, or by quota levels. Servergraph performs completely automated billing by application based on network usage (amount of data being moved across the network), occupancy (amount of disk space taken up in storage), or a hybrid of both. From setting up a basic billing model to a complex one Servergraph makes it easy for your organization to choose the metrics that best apply to your environment.