Broadcom Inc., a provider of enterprise software for critical infrastructure, recently announced the availability of a new solution that allows companies to store their mainframe data anywhere they want, including the cloud.
Broadcom's CA 1 Flexible Storage solution provides secure, cost-effective mainframe data storage options for hybrid IT environments, enabling customers to achieve dramatic cost savings and protect against ransomware.
“Hybrid cloud promises flexibility and cost efficiency for businesses today and in the future,” said Greg Lotko, senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s mainframe software division. “We are partnering closely with customers and offering significant new product capabilities so they can seamlessly integrate the mainframe with the cloud. The beauty of CA 1 Flexible Storage is that if mainframe customers want to use commodity storage in their data center or write to the cloud, on-premises or off-premises, they can — with no changes to their daily operations or forms.”
Managing data growth
Installed storage capacity for enterprises is growing at more than 27% per year. IT budgets are challenged by this level of growth. Storage teams that were frustrated by limited and expensive options now have new alternatives for success. Typically, a petabyte of storage costs companies $1.4 million annually when it is stored on tape in their facilities. Moving selected data to cloud storage can save you up to 95% of that cost each year.
“With the increasing volumes and costs of data storage, this solution is timely for our business,” said Rick Laneau, GM, Information Technology, Hillsborough County Public Schools. “We will be able to restructure our mainframe storage strategy to include the cloud in a meaningful way, while saving on storage costs and complying with data retention policies – it’s an overall win for us.”
“With CA 1 Flexible Storage, customers have the option to use cloud storage at a potentially lower cost than on-premises systems, but with the security they need for corporate data,” added Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Evaluator Group . “The simplicity of implementation of the CA 1 solution is critical to business operations, targeting cloud storage without operational impact, enabling customers to quickly realize economic value. IT organizations strive to accomplish more with limited resources and CA 1 Flexible Storage is a valuable solution to achieve this.”
Mainframe Storage Solution
- Flexible and cost-effective: CA 1 flexible storage gives businesses the freedom to combine the type of storage that best suits specific data, on-premises or in the cloud, as needed. Businesses can move archive and backup data to the cloud or any other low-cost storage without the need for special hardware or software. This flexibility opens up opportunities to significantly reduce storage costs.
- Efficient: Enterprises can reuse existing CA 1 policy-based automation for all storage types, including their preferred cloud storage. There's no need to reinvent the wheel. CA 1 Flexible Storage ensures that all data eligible for offload is processed using specialized low-cost processors, further minimizing resource consumption. Additionally, internal testing demonstrated that batch backup performance was improved by up to 25% while easing strict capacity requirements.
- Secure: With the threat of cyberattacks growing dramatically, data security is a top concern for IT leaders. CA 1 Flexible Storage offers a comprehensive approach to protecting data by leveraging the latest z crypto hardware accelerator and quantum security algorithms. This allows for dataset (file) level backups. This offers greater protection over other solutions that only provide encryption at the device level, which leaves sensitive information vulnerable to insider threats and external attackers.
Ransomware protection
CA 1 Flexible Storage expands support for immutable backups, meaning they cannot be modified after they are created. This greatly reduces the risk that companies may face due to accidental modifications or ransomware attacks.
Additionally, the solution positions customers to explore the latest IBM z16 and z15 advancements while maximizing the value gained from their current software stack—all without the need for any specialized hardware or z/OS software. non-native.
Existing CA 1 Tape Management customers are automatically entitled to the new CA 1 Flexible Storage solution and can begin taking advantage of these new features immediately at no additional cost.
For more information about Broadcom's CA 1 flexible storage solution, click here.
