I’m not aware of any pure software-based option from IBM or any other vendor that fits your/their description. However, IBM fairly recently introduced a “baby” TS7700 model that’s customer rack mounted. If they’re concerned about consuming another whole frame footprint it’s not that big. And the hardware-based approach has its advantages, notably lower processing impact(s) on the z/VM environment(s).
If they’re willing to relax their z/OS “ban” then I think it can be done with a pure software-based approach, but I’d have to double check. There are hypothetical “Roll Your Own” approaches involving Linux. I suppose for example you could configure the storage system to take point-in-time copies then use a Linux LPAR to back those PITCs up to cloud object storage, highly preferably encrypted before transmission. Not ideal IMHO, and I don’t see how you’d get incremental backups that way. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
