Harbor Enterprise Network Storage Manager (NSM) on z/OS is high-performance, enterprise data backup and recovery software hosted on the z/OS mainframe. Harbor Enterprise NSM on z/OS provides a scalable, reliable, and robust platform for managing rapidly increasing volumes of corporate data, shrinking backup windows, and multiple open-systems platforms.

In today's enterprise data center, it is not unusual to find many UNIX, Windows, Netware, Oracle, SAP, and email servers co-located with the corporate mainframe. On all platforms in the data center, data growth and storage use has increased dramatically. And, as always, data must be backed up and made available for quick user-requested restore. The large increase in open-systems storage and resulting increase in backup requirements are overextending the capabilities of earlier backup procedures and storage equipment.

The z/OS mainframe has, over the last 25 years, perfected backup and recovery. Applying a proven mainframe production solution to open-systems backups will ensure data is safe and recoverable, and at the least cost.

• Using the mainframe as the backup server automatically provides 24x7 availability.
• Using the mainframe as the backup server automatically provides sharing of tape devices for open systems backups.
• Using the mainframe as the backup server automatically puts open-systems backups into the hands of experienced storage specialists.
• Using the mainframe as a backup server automatically ensures open-systems backup data is sent to the disaster recovery site.
• Using the mainframe as a backup server automatically ensures sufficient scalability to handle future growth.
• Using high-bandwidth technologies, ESCON, FICON or SAN, automatically achieves fastest single-stream throughput.
• Using multiple high-bandwidth connections to multistream open-systems backups will achieve the highest aggregate throughput.
• Using the same high-bandwidth technology for restore ensures restore time is as fast as backup time.
• Leveraging existing IT infrastructure and z/OS technology keeps the total cost of the solution to a minimum.

With Harbor Enterprise NSM, Beta Systems offers a backup and recovery solution to address current performance and growth issues in customer sites enabling cross-platform deployment of the storage resources available in the data center. The new architecture of Harbor Enterprise NSM can handle Thousands of file servers and Terabytes of storage.