EMChas unveiled new
software that automates comprehensive failover and restart
operations in multi-site IBM mainframe environments.
EMC said
EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart
(EMC GDDR) software is faster to deploy, easier to manage and up to
50% less expensive than existing products.
EMC said competitor offerings typically require lengthy planning
processes, complex custom scripting, extended debug and test
periods, and expensive, long term service contracts.
It said EMC GDDR software delivers the highest levels of
availability, and assures automated restart consistency across
applications and implementation methodologies via standardised
software.
Financial trading company Euroclear is one of the first firms to
implement the product.
“As a provider of domestic and cross-border securities
settlement and related services, the high availability of our
mission-critical IT systems is a fundamental requirement of
Euroclear,” said Michael Pilkington, managing director and head of
corporate technology at Euroclear.
“Using EMC GDDR, we have taken the availability of our
information infrastructure to a new level, providing greater
assurance that we will be able to continue delivering our services
to clients, even during very severe business-disruption scenarios,”
said Pilkington.
Carl Greiner, an analyst at Ovum, said, “Enterprise customers
are asking for simplified, standardised disaster restart and
recovery functionality that enhances information and system
availability across their critical operations.
“With this new solution, EMC is providing mainframe customers
with a new level of automation, protection and management agility,
and in so doing, is expanding the market for this critical
functionality.”
The product is aimed at users of EMC Symmetrix DMX storage
systems that are combined with mainframe configurations.
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