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Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF)

Migrate data without disruption in heterogeneous, multi-platform environments, locally or over distance, to support continuous application availability

Overview

If you need to migrate data without disrupting business applications, regardless of platform, distance or vendor hardware, IBM offers Softek TDMF, a host-based unified data migration solution for both open systems and mainframe environments. Softek TDMF is a proven solution for heterogeneous environments and is ideal for technology refresh, server/storage consolidation, data center relocation/consolidation, and implementing tiered storage. No additional hardware, prerequisite software or firmware is required.

Softek TDMF technology

Nondisruptive data migrations, regardless of storage hardware for both mainframe and distributed system environments

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With a ten-year track record of reliability and used by more than 60% of the Fortune 1000 companies since 1996, the Softek TDMF offering has become an industry leader in moving data. The products are available in the form of a software license, a project service engagement or an element of a managed service agreement.

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Highlights
  • Migrates data nondisruptively  while applications are still online for business use
  • Supports heterogeneous environments, simplifying management and reducing training, licensing and maintenance costs
  • Enables easier implementation of tiered storage and provide greater flexibility to move data
  • Validates to protect against data corruption
  • Balances I/O activity to optimize application performance during data migrations
  • Enables a repeatable standardized methodology for data migration regardless of platform or storage hardware

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Features - function - benefits
 Feature Function Benefit
 Storage-vendor independence Host-based software migrates data across leading storage environments Supports flexibility in conducting a technology refresh with TDMF z/OS and provides negotiating power
 Flexible migration optionsProvides control over input/output (I/O) rate an centrol processing unit (CPU) overhead for read/write, pacing/throttling, tunable copy and replication rate, and adjustable block size of each read/write Enables online migration activity while maintaining optimal application performance and service levels. With TDMF UNIX, this is accomplished via adjustable copy concurrency for speed.
 Resilient architecture Current state of migration is maintained, regardless of graceful or nongraceful shutdown, to help ensure continued, recoverable migrations Migration process can continue in the event of server shutdown and restart

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