Luminex Mainframe Virtual Tape - CloudTAPE
A modern mainframe cloud archiving and recovery solution
CloudTAPE enables seamless, secure replication of mainframe virtual tapes to cloud object storage. Delivers next-generation resilience without changing mainframe operations.
Why Luminex CloudTAPE?
- Seamless Integration: Integrates seamlessly with Luminex Mainframe Data Integration (MDI) for hybrid cloud workflows. It also enables hybrid modernization and brings mainframe reliability to cloud-scale flexibility.
- Ease of Recovery: It provides a virtual air-gapped, verifiable, immutable backup that can be easily recalled for DR, compliance, or audit needs.
Ultimate Disaster Recovery & Security
- Protects mainframe data from ransomware and unwanted alteration by creating an unchangeable copy in the cloud with a virtual air gap.
- Optional Ransomware Recovery with InfiniteSnap allows recovering from previous versions for recovery points for precise surgical and catastrophic recovery scenarios.
- Perform Push Button DR validations using cloud-stored volumes, ensuring verifiable recovery compliance.
Win Operational Efficiency and Cloud Flexibility
- Reduces the cost of on-prem storage by automatically retrieving tapes from the cloud when accessed and optionally deleting local copies after replication to free up space.
- Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, or on-prem object storages with scalable, cost-optimized storage tiers. It is fully compatible with existing CGX virtual tape installations and mainframe workflows without any modification
Increased Accessibility Across the Globe
- The cloud storage data centers (nodes) are strategically located worldwide to optimize access and maximize data availability.
- The ability to access data from any location provides enterprises with unprecedented flexibility to recover, relocate or consolidate operations.
Rapidly scale from terabytes to petabytes with multiple mainframes at multiple sites.
Storage can be bundled with our solution, or use your own from your favorite FC or NAS storage vendor.
