Solution Architect; Senior Manager Mainframe Technical Service at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Aug 9, 2020
We offer it as a Cloud solution to our shared clients and we share these devices between multiple clients. That's how we primarily use the solution. I use it for storing mainframe data. It's used throughout the mainframe applications and the flash copies for DR, as well as replication utilities, to move data from one facility to another. We use just about all the features on it.
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I use this solution to lighten the workload. Oracle databases and SQL databases have a high workload in IBM.
We offer it as a Cloud solution to our shared clients and we share these devices between multiple clients. That's how we primarily use the solution. I use it for storing mainframe data. It's used throughout the mainframe applications and the flash copies for DR, as well as replication utilities, to move data from one facility to another. We use just about all the features on it.