INNOVATION’ s Non-Disruptive Data Protection, Business Continuance and SRM Solutions

INNOVATION Data Processing, Inc. announced that current releases of its non-disruptive business data protection, business continuance and storage resource management solutions are shipping with support for the new IBM  System z10 mainframe and just announced z/OS 1.10 operating system; ready to help enterprise customers of all sizes improve availability, survivability, security and employ ‘green’ technologies.

"Our customers tell us they need 24x7x365 availability, the capability to sustain application growth, meet privileged information protection responsibilities and contain cost", said Thomas J Meehan, INNOVATION Data Processing, Vice President, Advance Technology. "And that is exactly the features we see IBM providing in the new IBM z10 processors and z/OS 1.10 operating system. This is an announcement of a significant delivery. There is a lot under the covers in this release of the z/OS that is laying a foundation for the future. Consequently depending which INNOVATION products they are running, z/OS 1.10 customers may have to come up on new release. Our solutions make it happen but its IBM System z hardware and z/OS software providing the facilities our solutions employ to consolidate and conserve resources, improve scalability, boost performance, improve usability, prevent unauthorized access and preserve uninterrupted access to data." Meehan adds.

Working together with IBM, to deliver IBM ServerProven, IBM System Storage Proven and IBM Information On Demand Specialty qualified solutions that allow customers to meet the ever increasing challenges of an on-demand business environment, INNOVATION tests all its software on IBM storage and z/OS software releases that support the new z10 models. All components of the FDR Suite for z/OS (FDR (Fast Dump Restore), ABR, FASTCPK), FDRERASE for z/OS, FDREPORT and FDRVIEWS data protection and storage resource management solutions, the FDRInstantBackup (FDRINSTANT and ABRINSTANT) and FDRPAS non-disruptive business continuance solutions, FDRMOVE real time DASD volume consolidation, UPSTREAM/Reservoir Suite for Enterprise UNIX, Linux and Windows data protection, IAM for VSAM application acceleration and the FATSCOPY Tape Media Migration solutions all provide support for the new z10 models and for the z/OS 1.10 release of the operating system.

Information on product releases required to support z/OS 1.10