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Rocket Software, Inc. May 2009 Visit our Website     Subscribe

In the last two months I’ve spoken with many companies about their top concerns and — as you might expect — the economy tops the list. Because of the current economic conditions, companies are looking at ways to reduce their expenses and to do more with less.

Putting the right tools in the hands of your staff will allow them to do more, spend less, and be more effective. We’ve had customers defer hiring new staff and others reallocate staff based on the simple fact that once our application was in place they were able to eliminate so much of the drudge work which simply had to be done and consumed many hours of staff time. When looking at ways to spend less, ensuring that your existing resources are being used effectively and at the proper utilization levels is key.

We recently had a customer defer the purchase of a CDL because we were able to point out the inefficiencies in their setup and processes: they estimated their savings to be around $150,000.

Putting tools in place that can alert you when issues arise, that can predict when you are going to run out of resources; that can automate tasks and actions, and can move you into a proactive management situation will put you well on your way to being more effective in this time of economic uncertainty. Our goal is helping you do more with less and being successful in good times and in challenging times.

Don Becker
Servergraph Business Unit Executive

Featured Article

A Letter from Andy Youniss

This year marks the start of our 20th year as your primary source for enterprise software.

Thank you to all of our licensed customers. Some of you I have known for 20 years, and some of you I’m just getting to know over the past couple. Regardless of your history with Rocket, you have told me that you improve your business each day, each week, each month, each year, by deploying and using our products. And you recognize how unique Rocket is, in that we continue to maintain and enhance every piece of software that you have licensed from us over the past 20 years. We have significantly expanded our product portfolio and professional services capabilities for you over the past few years, and so I want to introduce you to some of the newer products that you should consider taking advantage of in 2009.

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The New Face of Servergraph.com

On May 7, we launched a new iteration of www.servergraph.com. The primary objective of this newly integrated Rocket brand sub-site was to better organize the content to continue to support your information needs in relation to Rocket's Servergraph products and information. We encourage you to take a few minutes to visit the new website.

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Servergraph Supports Veritas Netbackup and Legato Networker

For customers that don’t use TSM, Servergraph has an alternative to the industry leading Servergraph Professional. Data Protection Expert (DPE) provides a single application to report and manage an enterprise backup environment. And it doesn’t matter whether the backup application used is NetBackup, TSM, Networker, or a mix of all three - and existing SGP customers can purchase DPE for their NetBackup or Networker environment and monitor an existing SGP managed TSM environment for no additional charge.

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Finding Savings in Your Shop

Backup and storage administrators are continually challenged not only to increase backup success percentages, but also to uncover wasted storage in their environment. The real challenge is how to identify and correct every inefficiency in an often complicated and overtaxed backup system. Servergraph makes this task seem effortless by utilizing the Trapped Data Report and the Storage Abuser Report.

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Product Tips and Tricks

DPE: Tracking Available Scratch Tapes

Ever had a library miss backups because it ran out of scratch tapes? Worried because your overtaxed operations crew is having trouble managing available tapes? With DPE an automated email report on how many scratch tapes are available in the various servers/libraries in your environment is just a few clicks away.

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SGP: Servergraph and Capacity Planning

One of the biggest challenges Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Administrators face in today’s data protection environment is the proactive management of resources. With data storage requirements growing exponentially, it is a constant battle for Administrators and Capacity Planners to keep up with backup resource trending on a consistent and timely manner. Servergraph Professional can be utilized to graphically depict all these components in a single view for quick capacity analysis.

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In This Issue
A Letter from Andy Youniss
The New Face of Servergraph.com
Servergraph Supports Veritas Netbackup and Legato Networker
Finding Savings in Your Shop
Database Backup and Recovery for DB2 on z/OS
Product Tips & Tricks
Featured Case Study

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Database Backup and Recovery for DB2 on z/OS - Version 2.2 New Features

With Database Backup & Recovery for DB2, you can increase application availability and ensure resiliency with reliable subsystem backups and point-in-time recovery. New features for v2.2 help make your DB2 system backups easier and more versatile than ever.

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