Hi, As mentioned in my previous posts I do not have permission to disclose customer reasons, *but *I'll let myself state that one of the most important reason is the time frame that should be immediately (preferably tomorrow :-) ).
Regards, Arye Shemer. On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:55 PM Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:38:40 +0000, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Why would anyone want to do z/VM backups to a cloud? > >There are lots of great reasons to do that! > > Since there are lots of reasons, can you name 3 beyond those I mentioned? > "Save money? Offsite backup? It's new technology? Don't need to worry > because it's the cloud? They want to say they are cloud enabled?" > > > Also, I understood the request to mean �cloud object storage� as the > target. > > I suspect Ayre is saying cloud but I doubt Ayre has a specific cloud > solution in mind nor implied "cloud object storage". That is certainly one > solution but it's not the only possible solution. I think Ayre wants the > simplest non-confusing solution possible. > > >I see that IBM Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM is listed in the > Product field. > > Maybe that product could have another input/output handler (CLOUDOBJ?), > > Implementing a new feature request takes time (Potentially years). I > suspect Ayre's customer is looking for a shorter time frame. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
