Mainframe Cloud Backup with FlowZ: Cheaper, Faster, Off-Site
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Vince Re discusses how VirtualZ Computing utilizes FlowZ for efficient and cost-effective mainframe-to-cloud backups.
How cheap and how fast can mainframe-to-cloud backup actually be? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re shows how VirtualZ backs up its own IBM Z mainframe — system backups, source code, and operational logs — by streaming them straight to cloud object storage with FlowZ, VirtualZ's no-code tool for using Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Google Cloud as mainframe backup and archive storage, for pennies a month. Vince Re explains exactly how it works: FlowZ makes cloud object storage look like a normal output target to z/OS, so the mainframe writes to the cloud as if it were a local device — with no custom code and nothing running on the cloud side. He also answers the objection everyone raises about cloud backup: isn't the network too slow? It isn't, and he walks through why. In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing: - How cloud object storage becomes a native mainframe output target with no custom code - Real numbers on volume backup speeds and compression, mainframe to cloud - Why network bandwidth is not the bottleneck most teams assume it is - How the approach scales from a small shop to a site moving terabytes a day - Replacing fragile, expensive local tape…
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