CA Technologies has released CA Cloud Storage for System z, which when used with  Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage and the Riverbed® Whitewater® cloud storage appliance, helps customers lower storage costs to pennies per gigabyte (GB). It also improves DR readiness. The new solution is designed to help customers drive down the cost of storing data processed on IBM System z by backing up the data and archiving it to the cloud.

“This innovation not only shrinks data storage costs and eliminates expensive, purpose-built robots and disks, it also delivers the elastic capacity and flexibility the Dynamic Data Center demands to respond to business needs across the enterprise,” said Chris Wilson, Vice President, Mainframe, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies.

CA Cloud Storage for System z is designed to: 

• Cut storage costs by taking advantage of the efficiencies cloud use offers such as capacity on demand and reduced dependency on storage media.
• Speed ability to access, store, retrieve and recover storage data, increasing velocity to seconds from the hours or days physical media recovery can take.
• Reduce data center risk by storing data securely off-site, while addressing regulatory guidelines for long-term data retention.
• Seamlessly operate with current applications that store and retrieve data without programming changes.
• Automatically reduce storage size and network bandwidth requirements with powerful de-duplication algorithms and the number of bytes sent into the cloud.