While I completely agree with Glenn that there are many ways to move data to the cloud, the one that thing that keeps getting left out is ENCRYPTION. To believe that "encryption at rest" or "encryption in transit" is enough is completely wrong and short-sighted. Look at what has happened to MicroSoft's own SharePoint. While "encryption at rest" might be sufficient for family photo albums, it should never be assumed to be sufficient for Corporate Mainframe data. IBM has been pushing Pervasive Encryption for years now, which means encrypting the data at-home with an application specific encryption key (so payroll and warehouse don't use the same encryption key). This needs to be done on all MF Data being stored in the cloud as well. Currently, CA 1 Flexible Storage is the only way to encrypt your tape date AS it is being created. So, you can move the data to the cloud with the safety of knowing it was encrypted at home (with the keys stored in your Mainframe CKDS database) before it leaves home. That allows you to store in the cloud with safety. Russell [email protected] CA 1 Flexible Storage Programmer On Monday, July 21, 2025 at 10:57:33 AM CDT, Glenn Wilcock <[email protected]> wrote:
There are many vendors that have cloud-based tape emulation solutions. For IBM, we offer IBM Cloud Tape Connector for tape emulation and DFSMScdm - Cloud Data Manager for leveraging cloud object storage as another tier of storage for z/OS data. If you belong to SHARE, the various vendors regularly present their solutions. Also, DFSMSdss and DFSMShsm target cloud object storage directly leveraging S3 protocals, so no additional software is needed for backing up and migrating data to cloud. Glenn Wilcock DFSMS Chief Product Owner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
