StorageTek Powers Advanced Archiving with Lifecycle Director(TM) Archive Solution

StorageTek Powers Advanced Archiving with Lifecycle Director(TM)
Archive Solution
Solution for IBM DB2 Automates Information Lifecycle Management to Reduce
Storage Costs and Improve Operational Efficiencies 


NEW YORK, Aug. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SHARE IBM -- As today's enterprise
DB2 databases continue to grow exponentially, database administrators seek the
elusive balance between effective data management and cost efficiency. Finally,
there is a data management yin to the DB2 administrator's yang.

StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE: STK), the leading provider
of enterprise information lifecycle management, today announced the
introduction of its Lifecycle Director(TM) for DB2 archive solution for IBM
mainframe databases. With StorageTek's Lifecycle Director software, DB2
managers in enterprise OS/390 or z/OS environments can automate the transparent
movement of data through its lifecycle to lower-cost storage media while
delivering extremely rapid access to archived data.

"As enterprises' critical DB2 databases continue to grow, the associated
archiving complexities and storage management costs have surged," said JR
Roedel, StorageTek senior director, Information Lifecycle Management Solutions.
 "With Lifecycle Director archive solution we have directly applied our
information lifecycle management strategy to a challenging real-world scenario
and developed an effective solution for archive-enabling DB2 environments to
reduce costs and enhance overall operational performance."

StorageTek developed Lifecycle Director as the industry's leading-edge DB2
archive solution that eliminates the need for users to manually modify the
underlying application code. This resource-intensive process can eclipse the
cost savings and reductions in management complexity promised via competing DB2
archive products and homegrown applications. With its unique, row-level
management and migration functionality, Lifecycle Director delivers archiving
and recall flexibility and automation capabilities with a minimum of setup and
configuration.

   StorageTek's Lifecycle Director enables DB2 administrators to achieve the
   following:

   *  Reduce Storage Media and Management Costs. Lifecycle Director enables
      administrators to automate the transparent movement of older or less
      frequently accessed files from expensive disk storage systems to lower
      cost storage media, including StorageTek Automated Tape Solutions, and
      maintain Nearline(R)-speed data recall. Additionally, Lifecycle
      Director greatly reduces the management costs associated with
      archiving large DB2 databases by eliminating the need to manually
      update the underlying application code and minimizing data retrieval
      times.

   *  Conserve Valuable Disk Storage Resources. By facilitating the
      transparent archiving and recall of data at the individual row level,
      Lifecycle Director can reduce active table sizes by an average of 85
      percent and eliminate the over allocation of disk storage space. In
      this way, administrators can conserve valuable disk storage resources
      and readily accommodate peak data processing and continued data
      growth.

   *  Deliver Rapid Disaster Recovery/Data Recoverability. Recovering large
      tables from disk failures or disasters can mean hours to days of
      downtime, and commonly the most recent and frequently accessed data is
      restored last. With Lifecycle Director, data is available at
      Nearline(R) response times as soon as the application is active at the
      recovery site. Also, its architecture allows the disk copy to be
      restored in 'last in first out' row sequence. Lifecycle Director
      automates the replication of up to four tape copies via single and
      concurrent tape write operations, enabling a broad range of
      onsite/offsite data replication and protection strategies.

   *  Facilitate Regulatory Compliance For applications affected by
      regulatory compliance requirements, Lifecycle Director can be
      configured to automate the migration of data to archival storage media
      based on highly customizable data retention policies. Additionally,
      Lifecycle Director can be used to migrate sensitive data to
      StorageTek's advanced VolSafe(R) WORM (write once read many) tape
      media, designed to support today's stringent electronic data storage
      regulations.



According to Charlie Garry, senior program director at META Group, a leading
provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting, "Database
archival growth has been a costly - but important - challenge to database
administrators for a while. Lifecycle Director offers an interesting approach
and could prove quite valuable to large enterprises seeking a cost effective
way to manage this challenge."

For more information visit StorageTek at booth #827 at the SHARE User- Driven
Training Event and Expo, August 15-20 at the New York Hilton,
http://www.share.org/.

About StorageTek

StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through its
information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage with
the value of information. The company's innovative storage solutions manage the
complexity and growth of information, lower costs, improve efficiency and
protect investments. For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/, or
call 1.800.877.9220 or 303.673.5151.

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