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• 04 4Agility

An investment that pays for itself in no time at all.

Beta 55 Storage Optimization Manager is an innovative tool for managing tape storage. It consolidates datasets onto fewer tapes, freeing up tapes, ATL slots and floor space. It also lets you group datasets for better availability. And it adds a high measure to data security and data integrity by completely eliminating manual tape handling. More and more data centers are using Beta 55 to reduce the size of their tape libraries dramatically.

Better handling of archived data.

Minimize tape mounts. Speed up access time. With Beta 55 real-time stacking via DASD.

What Beta 55 can do for your data center:

• Update your tape management system automatically
• Flexible enough to integrate into busy production schedules
• Collision table prevents data contention
• Tailored for large installations with several features for handling multiple ATLs
• Let you migrate seamlessly to newer storage devices and make full use of their increased capacity

Cross-reference your tape management system, MVS catalog, external data manager, and ATL, identifying any inconsistencies Beta 55 works incredibly efficiently by pooling datasets on DASD, then offloading them onto tape when the DASD spool is full or according to pre-defined criteria. This real-time, software-based buffering technique assures tape mounts are kept to a minimum. Furthermore, access time is markedly improved for online-oriented, transaction-heavy applications that need frequent access to the same data, because the data is on DASD, rather than tape. With this feature, Beta 55 offers a viable, more economical alternative to expensive, UNIX-based VTS (Virtual Tape Subsystem) Controller hardware. Keeping certain data grouped or separated makes it much easier to access at a later point. And if you’re running a data service center, keeping client data separated is absolutely critical. Beta 55 gives you a number of options for grouping: By location, volume attributes, or even dataset attributes. With the ‘Automatic Defined Client Stacking’ feature, data service centers can automatically store data from different clients on separate tapes. Important information: functions, features and characteristics of this product are continually being further developed and may therefore change at any time.