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Managing data growth for enhanced System z™ performance and improved mainframe utilisation.

System z™ servers are built to deal with staggering amounts of data. They allow more complex and volatile workloads, higher levels of application integration and accelerated information flows.

But no matter how robust and scalable your system, unmanaged data growth can place unprecedented demands upon underlying servers and databases, negatively impacting your ability to provide superior service and support. The effects can slow application performance, strain financial and technical resources and jeopardise completing business-critical processes on time.

And as running enterprise ERP, CRM and custom applications on System z™ drives your business, the impacts can be catastrophic.

IBM® Optim™ is an industry-leading data management solution and is deployed in a number of System z™ environments, including Norwich Union & Allianz Seguros.

We have produced a number of FREE resources to help you to find out more about how System z™ users can manage data for enhanced application performance and increased mainframe utilisation.

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Strategies For Managing Data Growth On System z™

Bloor Research Paper
- Philip Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research

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Control Data Growth Before It Controls Your Business

- IBM® White Paper April 2008

 

IBM Optim

IBM® Optim™ offers comprehensive data management capabilities to help System z™ users implement Information Lifecycle Management strategies for data in their databases and applications.

Organisations across a range of sectors have implemented IBM® Optim™ and benefited from:

  • Enhanced business performance
  • Increased mainframe utilisation
  • Increased application performance
  • Reduced data storage costs
  • Reduced disk space
  • Reduced time spent on financial and technical resources
  • Reduced migrate/upgrade time for critical business applications

Reduced system downtime

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