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Mainframe Data Management Modernization
Today’s enterprise mainframe customers face the challenge of modernizing data management while preserving the proven reliability of mainframe systems in a cloud-centric, data-driven business world. For decades, mainframes have been the backbone of enterprise IT, delivering unmatched stability for mission-critical workloads.
Yet, the proprietary nature of mainframe technology and practices often limits integration with modern cloud architectures, scalable object storage, and contemporary tools and applications. These constraints make it difficult to meet growing demands for scalability, cyber resiliency, operational efficiency, data integration, and new regulatory compliance requirements. Modernizing data management is essential to bridge this gap, enabling enterprises to leverage cloud flexibility, enhance security, and ensure compliance while maintaining the trusted reliability of mainframe systems.
Modernizing data management is essential to enable enterprises to leverage cloud flexibility, enhance security, and ensure compliance.
Modernize Data Management
SCALABILITY
RESILIENCE
DATA INTEGRATION
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
BMC Software’s AMI Cloud modernizes mainframe data management by delivering scalability, resilience, data integration, and regulatory compliance in today’s cloud-centric world. As a key component of BMC’s Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) portfolio, which supports AIOps, DataOps, DevOps, SecOps, and automated workflows, BMC AMI Cloud ensures seamless operations, streamlined data management, and robust cyber resilience in hybrid cloud environments.
By combining the proven reliability of mainframes with the agility of cloud technology, it enables immutable backups, effective disaster recovery, and seamless data integration with modern cloud applications for AI, business intelligence, and analytics, empowering businesses to gain smarter insights and stay competitive.
Protect Your Mainframe Data
As ransomware and data breaches become more advanced, protecting mainframe DASD and tape system data is essential. BMC AMI Cloud delivers robust security, ensuring your data stays safe and operations remain resilient against cyber-attacks. Our immutable object storage prevents unauthorized changes, keeping data secure with encryption, both in-flight and at rest, to safeguard sensitive information throughout its lifecycle. The solution protects against accidental deletions and corruption, ensuring IT teams maintain continuity during disruptions. With versioning, object locking, and end-to-end encryption, your data is shielded from loss.
For disaster recovery, an air-gapped third copy isolates data from network attacks, maximizing security. The solution’s advanced capabilities like surgical recovery can restore specific data quickly using predefined rules, minimizing downtime. The solution also supports cyber forensics for legal compliance and integrates with mainframe security software, adhering to Security Access Facility (SAF) standards. In today’s threat landscape, BMC AMI Cloud provides enterprise-grade protection, seamless integration, and advanced recovery to keep your mainframe data secure and resilient.
Regulatory Compliance for Data Management
BMC AMI Cloud helps organizations meet regulatory standards, secure critical data, and maintain operations with robust backup and fast recovery.
In today’s era of strict data compliance regulations, ensuring compliance and resilience is critical. BMC AMI Cloud helps organizations meet regulatory standards, secure critical data, and maintain operations with robust backup and fast recovery. Using object locking and versioning, our solution ensures secure, compliant data retention.
Automated periodic recovery tests guarantee data is always recoverable, keeping your organization prepared for audits and enhanced preparedness. Encrypted immutable backups protect against compromise, ensuring data integrity. Our solution provides backup, archiving, space management, and disaster recovery, optimizing object storage while maintaining compliance.
Air-gapped backups and rapid restore ensure you are compliant for data protection and accessible. In disasters, data is restored from public object cloud storage without mainframe exposure, ensuring secure recovery. Protection against deletions and corruption maintains operational continuity. With BMC AMI Cloud, you get the modern tools and technology to meet regulations, safeguard data, and recover quickly.
Simplify Mainframe Data Management
Managing mainframe data can be complex, but BMC AMI Cloud simplifies it with modern software tools and technology by connecting your data to on-premises or public cloud object storage. Move data efficiently, cut costs, and maintain compatibility without disrupting operations. BMC AMI Cloud redirects tape or VTL data to object storage without changing applications or JCL. It skips disk staging for faster, streamlined transfers, while boosting performance.
The solution works with any cloud—AWS, Azure, GCP, HCP, or IBM—and supports all DASD and tape systems. Automatically discover and migrate active and historical data to the cloud effortlessly. Our solution uses parallel processing, compression, and load balancing, data transfers for quick and efficient operations. Offload processing to zIIP engines to reduce mainframe CPU costs and no extra hardware or software is needed for direct-to-cloud transfers.
Our solution uses Cloud Data Sets (CDS) to enable fast, parallel read/write access, enhancing throughput. BMC AMI Cloud can operate alongside existing backup software to support a smooth phased migration plan. Manage data with modern tools for retention, expiration, and lifecycle policies, ensuring compliance and restore data directly from object storage using a standalone program, independent of the mainframe. It is fully compatible with IBM DFSMS, and no policy changes are required supporting uninterrupted business operations. Simplify mainframe data management with BMC AMI Cloud, save time, reduce costs, and ensure reliability.
Move data efficiently, cut costs, and maintain compatibility without disrupting operations.
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