I wrote: > IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS David Crayford wrote: >That’s one of our products. Our team was only talking about >it this week. One of the team had just returned from customer >visits in SE Asia and quite a few muti-national banks are using >CTC so they can recover to data centers in different countries >continents. Everybody uses AWS S3. As you already mentioned, >you can use zones and also replicate to other zones in different >locales.
Amazon (AWS) S3 is one of the popular choices, but to be clear you don’t have to use Amazon specifically. Or a public commercial cloud. The cloud object storage APIs are reasonably well standardized, and IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS has broad coverage. The first release of IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS debuted over 7 years ago (as I write this). And Transparent Cloud Tiering in some form extends as far back as the IBM DS8870 storage systems. Anyhow, cloud storage options for z/OS have been available for several years. >When my previous company were acquired by Rocket Software >we used AWS S3 to migrate our storage to the new machines. >Modern internet bandwidth’s are orders of magnitude faster than >what they were a decade ago. The entire process was seamless. >In the old days we would have to dump everything to tape and put >it on plane! Some of the cloud object storage providers can accept data on physical media and/or can send your data back to you on physical media. For a fee, of course. Medium and large organizations frequently have dedicated private network links between their data centers and public commercial cloud data centers. There are several networking companies that provide these services, for example Megaport and Equinix. The list for IBM Cloud Direct Link service is available here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-locations#connect-locations ————— 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
