Features & Benefits

VTF Mainframe enhances recoverability, business continuity, performance and manageability of your network resources. It improves business productivity, offers a greater return on investment, and enables you to automate manual tasks – increasing your operational efficiencies.

Performance	•	Enables management of tape-based data as disk-based data z/OS requirements
	•	Faster application re-starts from virtual tape contained on disk
	•	Shortens the batch window
	•	Improves data center and end-user productivity
	•	Improves elapsed time of tape-based jobs without conversion efforts
	•	Increases productivity by removing the constraints of tape
	•	Accelerates disaster recovery operations using virtual tape on disk storage
	•	Automates tape operation, eliminating manual processes associated with tape-dependent jobs

Ease of Implementation	•	Operates with standard disk storage subsystem hardware
	•	No application changes or additional operators are required
	•	Completely transparent to the host, applications, tape management systems and users

Scalability	•	Relieves the mechanical nature and physical constraints of tape

Total Cost of Ownership	•	Provides lower TCO benefits of disk while still using tape
Total Cost of Ownership	•	Physically moves virtual tapes to a remote location by remote mirroring or e-vaulting

Reliability	•	Achieves business continuity when coupled with a disk storage subsystem capable of remote mirroring
Reliability	•	Provides robust disaster recovery solutions for virtual tape, when integrated with remote disk mirroring solutions


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