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IBM
Systems Magazine Covers Game Changing Mainframe Tape
Migration Strategy
- Eliminates the
need for host cycles and host software during
migrations.
- Shaves months
off a migration!
- Saves
thousands of dollars!
Click on the IBM
Systems link below to follow coverage by IBM Systems
Magazine and learn more!
SecureAgent's
new Tape Migration Engine alters the landscape of how
mainframe tape and tape library migrations can be
implemented. It does this by eliminating any
involvement from the mainframe host.
It uses no expensive mainframe cycles, no
expensive third-party tape copy software, and no expensive
migration management.
The
SecureAgent Migration Engine does all the work of the
migration by replacing the mainframe's role of requesting
tape mounts for the migration. The Migration Engine
is directly FICON attached to the target library as an
additional LPAR and appears to the library as a mainframe
host. The Migration Engine issues tape mount
commands and directly reads VOLSER tape ranges
simultaneously copying them.
Throughout
the migration process, the mainframe host has no awareness
of the Migration Engine and continues with its normal
operations. At the completion of the migration
import, the SecureAgent Migration Engine can then be FICON
attached to the mainframe host and becoming the new
Virtual Tape Library, and the original tape infrastructure
can then be decommissioned.
The
entirety of the mainframe tape data read by the
SecureAgent Tape Migration Engine is simultaneously
compressed and encrypted before being stored on
disk. The Migration Engine can also immediately
begin securely replicating the newly migrated data to a
remote SecureAgent VTL if protecting redundant copies at
various geographic locations is a requirement.
This new SecureAgent mainframe tape migration strategy
provides the fastest, most economical and most secure
method of moving out of an existing tape library and into
a new state of the art SecureAgent VTL.
If
you would like to speak with a SecureAgent Engineer please
call +1 918.971.1600
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