Typical organizations using OS/390 process thousands of tape files daily. The role of tape management is to ensure the integrity of that data residing on tape, and to automate and streamline the protection of this vital corporate resource throughout its life cycle. In addition, today’s tape management solutions must be both scalable and extendible to encompass tape management for the entire enterprise. Critical data resides on dispersed servers and desktop workstations. Many enterprises, in an attempt to protect their distributed data, have made substantial investments in platform-specific, tape management solutions. Today’s heterogeneous environments require a common set of tools to protect distributed data, regardless of where it resides. Because Parallel Sysplex promises unlimited scalable growth and significant performance improvements, increasing numbers of clients are implementing these systems.
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