Backup and archiving for mainframes and open systems

Although data is crucial across all market sectors, for some organisations, it is the very core of their business – for example stock exchanges, financial services, insurance companies and air traffic control systems. These organisations have the most stringent data protection requirements and usually store essential data on-premises. Fujitsu’s flagship ETERNUS CS8000 - already the most versatile solution of its kind¹, allows customers to optimise their systems as their requirements evolve while providing additional options for consolidating backup and archiving across mainframes and open systems. The administration time and infrastructure cost saved translate to savings of up to 40 percent.

The 7^th generation ETERNUS CS8000 now offers the unrivalled ability to scale capacity from 14 Terabytes up to more than 60 Petabytes - a factor of 400,000 percent. Performance can also be increased from 8TB per hour to a throughput of 150TB per hour - representing 1,800 percent scalability for actual data transfer and recovery operations. In addition, Fujitsu has ramped up the internal processor nodes and flexibility of internal software, increasing the number of available front-end processors nodes in the ETERNUS CS8000 from 10 to 22. This also boosts the number of virtual tape drives available, more than doubling the total from an already market-leading 2540 to approximately 5208. The resulting increase in parallel data streams results in dramatically shorter backup times.

Olivier Delachapelle, Head of Category Management, Data Center Products, Fujitsu EMEIA: “Mainframes continue to be the foundation of many businesses’ critical IT infrastructures as they support the most essential workloads. However, today’s IT leaders are challenged with simultaneously having to reduce IT costs while increasing flexibility. The ETERNUS CS8000 is designed with those objectives in mind - helping customers both consolidate the infrastructure needed to backup and archive data from both mainframe and open systems and easily adapt to accommodate changing demands. In addition, customers can now store data on a combination of disks, tapes and SSDs and benefit from accelerated backup and archive process thanks to the enhanced speed and performance of this latest version.”

The ETERNUS CS8000 now also incorporates support for solid state disks (SSDs) – to improve the performance of the optional deduplication processes and to deliver even greater benefits for mainframe environments. Long-term data can be stored cost-effectively on the ETERNUS CS8000’s back-end on tape – fully managed by the automated Information Lifecycle Management, while faster SSDs can be used for mainframe processes on the system’s backup storage - making the ETERNUS CS8000 even more attractive for mainframe backup, even in smaller environments.