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Mainframe Solutions

EMC Mainframe Solutions keep your data highly available while improving the efficiency of operational and data management. Count on Mainframe Solutions’ for high performance Enterprise Flash Drives, continued operations during planned and unplanned outages with automated disaster restart, local and remote replication, and automatic transfer of workloads from one Symmetrix system to another.

You can efficiently manage server and storage resources across your enterprise. Tightly integrate software and utilities with applications and databases, and optimize your mainframe applications and database environments.

Key Benefits
  • Optimized mainframe environment — Ensure high availability and improve operational and data management efficiency.

  • Improved data availability — Maintain a powerful competitive advantage by having your data more available.

  • Increased operational efficiency — Improve utilization and reduce costs with EMC storage management software.

  • Ensured compatibility — Benefit from EMC's licensing agreement, which ensures compatibility with all z/OS and OS/390 environments.

  • Enterprise Flash Drives — Achieve the industry's highest IOPS and lowest latency—accelerating response times up to 10x for your demanding applications.

EMC will help you build your solution with the following products, services, and partners:
  • AutoSwap - EMC AutoSwap moves application workloads from one EMC Symmetrix system to another without disrupting operations—providing z/OS and OS/390 mainframe users with non-disruptive application failover during outages.
  • Catalog Solution - EMC Catalog Solution manages, maintains, and recovers your mainframe catalog environment—ensuring system and data availability with automated diagnostics and repair, catalog update management, and flexible reporting.
  • Disk Library for mainframe - EMC Disk Library for mainframe enables customers to replace their physical tape libraries with a disk-based product for cost savings and higher performance and reliability.
  • EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart - EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR) provides complete, automated restarts for your mainframe operation after planned or unplanned outages.
  • InfoMover - EMC InfoMover combines flexible information transfer with sharing capabilities to help you access vital business data by mainframe, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows NT systems.
  • Performance Essential - EMC Performance Essential is an integrated server tuning and data management facility for z/OS environments that dramatically improves overall system performance.
  • SRDF/Asynchronous - EMC SRDF/Asynchronous is a remote mirroring solution that uses SRDF/A Delta Set architecture to replicate data remotely with no effect on production applications.
  • SRDF/Data Mobility - EMC SRDF/Data Mobility copies and moves data globally between EMC Symmetrix networked storage systems—so your information is always available, anywhere.
  • SRDF/Synchronous - EMC SRDF/Synchronous performs synchronous, remote replication of production data from one EMC Symmetrix networked storage system to others—with zero data exposure.
  • Symmetrix DMX-4 - Get 4 Gb/s performance, advanced security, and energy efficiency in an easy-to-operate storage system.
  • Symmetrix DMX-4 950 - EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 950 is an entry-level, high-end storage system that enables you to consolidate data, host applications, and storage tiers—reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
  • Symmetrix Management Console - Simplify day-to-day management of your EMC Symmetrix storage with this powerful, easy-to-use browser-based management tool.
  • TeraSAM - EMC TeraSAM transparently segments large VSAM files to make them more manageable—for faster backup, recovery, and reorganization.
  • TimeFinder/Clone - EMC TimeFinder/Clone creates pointer-based, full-volume clones of EMC Symmetrix DMX volumes for online restores, data warehouse refreshes, backups, and volume migrations.
  • TimeFinder/Snap - EMC TimeFinder/Snap creates economical, pointer-based, space-saving snapshot copies of EMC Symmetrix DMX storage volumes.
  • VSAM Assist - EMC VSAM Assistant manages and maintains VSAM datasets at a high level of performance through two simple commands (DUMP and RESTORE), eliminating the need for extensive technical experience.
  • z/OS Storage Manager - EMC z/OS Storage Manager delivers extensive storage resource management capabilities - purpose-built for your mainframe environment. Discover and monitor EMC Symmetrix storage volumes, set alerts, and more.
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