Listen "Zaac™ Preview - Allowing Mainframe Applications to Access Cloud Data Stores "
Episode Synopsis
Join Vince Re, VirtualZ Computing's CTO, as he shares a brief preview of the power of Zaac™.
Business-critical data is stored in a variety of locations — in the cloud, on SAN devices, or in SaaS applications, just to name a few. Until now, the mainframe has not been empowered with equivalent data access capabilities as these other platforms.
That’s where Zaac comes in. Zaac operates under the concept of “IBM Z as a Client” — allowing mainframe applications to read and write data from other platforms in real time the way a client would.
Zaac Use Cases:
1. Application Modernization
2. Instant Mainframe Storage
3. Mainframe Tape to Cloud
4. Mainframe Data for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Any mainframe application, any type of storage.
Zaac removes the barrier between the mainframe and other data sources, allowing mainframe applications to process and update non-mainframe data as if it were stored locally, no matter where it is.
It provides mainframe applications with real-time, read-write access to any data, anywhere. And it does this without requiring mountains of code or a complex architecture to maintain – the no-code approach lets you access the data directly and maintain that access easily.
Zaac is the only solution that does all this. Any application that can reference local files can reference the cloud or any other non-mainframe data source. That includes apps connecting to low-cost local storage devices sitting right in your own data center.
Best of all, you don’t even have to lose any of the mainframe’s classic strengths. You still have full security and the ability to set policies on what apps can reference what data.
Business-critical data is stored in a variety of locations — in the cloud, on SAN devices, or in SaaS applications, just to name a few. Until now, the mainframe has not been empowered with equivalent data access capabilities as these other platforms.
That’s where Zaac comes in. Zaac operates under the concept of “IBM Z as a Client” — allowing mainframe applications to read and write data from other platforms in real time the way a client would.
Zaac Use Cases:
1. Application Modernization
2. Instant Mainframe Storage
3. Mainframe Tape to Cloud
4. Mainframe Data for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Any mainframe application, any type of storage.
Zaac removes the barrier between the mainframe and other data sources, allowing mainframe applications to process and update non-mainframe data as if it were stored locally, no matter where it is.
It provides mainframe applications with real-time, read-write access to any data, anywhere. And it does this without requiring mountains of code or a complex architecture to maintain – the no-code approach lets you access the data directly and maintain that access easily.
Zaac is the only solution that does all this. Any application that can reference local files can reference the cloud or any other non-mainframe data source. That includes apps connecting to low-cost local storage devices sitting right in your own data center.
Best of all, you don’t even have to lose any of the mainframe’s classic strengths. You still have full security and the ability to set policies on what apps can reference what data.
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