Harbor Enterprise NSM Product Suite - Features & Benefits

Fast Recovery

• Integrated features (duplex tapes, replication, automatic migration of backup data) provide support for a remote disaster recovery site.
• Uses central server in the data center (i.e. z/OS mainframe) as a backup server, which automatically ensures backup data is sent to the disaster recovery site.
• Leverages the disaster recovery site policies and procedures of the mainframe so that you know your open-systems data is part of the disaster recovery plan.

Scaleability

• Central server (i.e. z/OS mainframe) capacities are utilized for all backup storage.
• Global Backup Policies apply to an unlimited number of clients regardless of their location within the enterprise
• Platform and application support of common operating systems, databases, and email servers ensures one solution throughout the enterprise.
• A single backup solution for the entire enterprise.

Virtual Backup

• Automatic detection of duplicate files decreases storage requirements by keeping one copy of common files.
• File list trimming, file exclusion, and incremental backup minimize the number of files transmitted, significantly reducing the amount of data to be transferred and stored.
• Backup consolidation reorganizes backup data to free up valuable storage space and speed up recovery time.

High Performance

• LAN-less data transfer using ESCON/FICON or SAN technologies for both backup and restore.
• Multiple parallel backup streams provide highest aggregate throughput.
• Compression reduces network congestion.
• The replication of the generic catalogue into multiple copies in the clients enables catalogue processing in parallel.
• Backup-to-Disk improves performance
• Pre-processes backup data to group current files together, eliminating the need to mount multiple tapes at restore time and reducing the amount of time spent searching through backup data to find the needed files. Restore data the way you want to and prioritize what you need most.

Centralized Management

• Automatic backups, managed from headquarters, plus user-initiated restores, eliminate the need for dedicated IT professionals at each field office location.
• Central administration and control provides a single interface to the entire backup system, reducing IT staff requirements and ensuring a unified solution.

Investment Protection

• Integration with z/OS security (RACF, TOP SECRET, and ACF2), batch job scheduling, and storage standards (SMS, HSM) simplifies setup and installation and on-going administration.
• Leverages in-place mainframe policies and procedures. Using what already exists saves on having to hire and train new people and implement new procedures.
• Policy-based solution means information for common tasks is captured into a policy, which is then applied every time the task is performed. Thus, IT staff are freed up from babysitting everyday backup and recovery tasks and can get on with doing other business.