EMC has announced DLm (Disk Library For Mainframe) release 4.1, their software solution that allows users to store various data types with primary and deduplication storage support. As businesses transfer more and more mainframe data on mobile and cloud platforms and back to the datacenter, mainframe data protection and recoverability are becoming extremely important. DLm offers a much more useful and current solution rather than the traditional protection afforded by physical tape, which is no longer practical.
EMC has announced DLm (Disk Library For Mainframe) release 4.1, their software solution that allows users to store various data types with primary and deduplication storage support. As businesses transfer more and more mainframe data on mobile and cloud platforms and back to the datacenter, mainframe data protection and recoverability are becoming extremely important. DLm offers a much more useful and current solution rather than the traditional protection afforded by physical tape, which is no longer practical.
DLm 4.1 benefits include:
- Simplification of D/R testing for EMC VNX based DLms
- Single drive performance improvements
- Deeper operational insights
- IPv6 Compliance
Mainframe data protection is vital to the data protection continuum, which is the full range of data protection requirements that must be met. Mainframe data exists at the core of virtually every critical financial transaction that is made. EMC believes that effective protection must be optimized around four use cases to achieve best-in-class return on investment, which DLm was specifically designed for: Backup and Restore; Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM); Long Term Data Retention; and “General Work Tapes.”
Storage administrators often have to run Disaster Recovery (D/R) tests under tight schedules. With DLm Release 4.1, EMC has automated potentially complex D/R test configurations for their VNX storage within DLm, simplifying D/R setup with menus executed on the mainframe.
Administrators are always looking to optimize their tape storage. This new release gives storage personnel more operational insight with its new GUI options to view storage usage, performance, and system health. EMC was asked for performance enhancements to match that of streaming tape, as customers continue to migrate off physical tape. Additionally, some datacenters run thousands of sequential jobs to only a few–or even just one–tape drive, which is a very demanding task. As such, DLm Release 4.1 has the ability to achieve up to 80% performance improvement for such environments.
DLm Release 4.1 is now available.
