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| TimeFinder Helps You Improve Your Organization's Productivity and Enhance Online Business Continuity Faster access to the increasing volume of information that floods businesses is becoming a prerequisite for survival in today's connected world. E-businesses are discovering that their customers are intolerant of delay and demand immediate access to information. TimeFinder meets these requirements, creating valuable time that businesses-both traditional and electronic-can leverage to exploit unlimited opportunity and satisfy infinite need.Revolutionise the way you do business - Exploit your information systems in ways you never imagined-with TimeFinder TimeFinder Enables Realtime Business in A Global Economy. TimeFinder, unique software for mainframe, open systems, Windows NT, and AS/400 platforms, keeps your business running at full capacity even during scheduled outages. It allows system and storage administrators to create, in background mode, independently addressable Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs) for mainframe and open system information storage. The BCVs are mirror images of active production volumes that can be split from the production volumes, with no impact to the production host. The BCVs can be used to run tasks that otherwise cannot be performed without seriously impacting production availability. This parallel processing capability offers workload compression and significantly increases productivity while maintaining continuity needs. Once the BCV task is complete, the volume can be resynchronized with the production volume, reassigned to another production volume, or maintained "as is" for another task.Increased Data Accessibility TimeFinder's new Multi-BCV function allows up to eight separate BCV relationships to be paired with a single standard volume. This enables restores to be performed incrementally from any one of eight volumes to accelerate restore time. Multiple copies of BCV data can be used for other purposes such as testing , back-ups, data mining , and loading of data warehouses. In addition, Mirroring on a RAID 1 or RAID-S protected volume is provided. When TimeFinder is used with Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF ), BCVs may reside on both the source Symmetrix system and a remote target Symmetrix. TimeFinder batch utility commands across SRDF links enable remote management of BCVs, making it easier to create and manipulate BCVs from a central location. The new Instant Split function enhances performance by making a BCV immediately available to host systems. Instant Split allows important tasks against mirror volumes to start sooner than ever before. Once a split command is executed, the BCV is available to the host for immediate use, saving valuable production time since customers no longer have to wait for the split to complete. TimeFinder includes a Snap utility, designed to duplicate datasets and volumes within a Symmetrix® environment at a point-in-time. This utility offers enhanced support for OS/390 SMS data structures and can create multiple copies of datasets or volumes concurrently. TimeFinder advantages can be achieved from both single Symmetrix and SRDF-capable Symmetrix installations. BCVs can be locally mirrored and/or used as an SRDF source. BCVs are established to help solve issues related to competing workloads, application testing, and data warehouse creation and usage, thus increasing the usefulness and value of your enterprise's information resources.
Winning the "Race-to-Sunrise" For global enterprises or government agencies, the amount of time available for backups is typically squeezed both at the front and back ends. TimeFinder puts an end to this crunch. With TimeFinder, backup operations are performed against BCVs, leaving the production copy fully available for regular business needs. Applications and systems that would normally shut down, or at best slow down, remain up and running , earning revenue and serving customers. Alternatively, systems may now accommodate additional applica-tions, gaining further productivity from your existing investment. A Backup Strategy That Works Smarter, Not Harder TimeFinder makes the often tedious backup function more streamlined and efficient. Backup operations can be conducted on BCVs at any point in time and as frequently as desired. Limitations and risks imposed through partial backups are drastically reduced. Normal procedures can be used to back up the BCV contents onto tape while your applications continue providing full service. Mainframe- and open systems-independent software vendors (ISVs) can integrate TimeFinder with various application management tools to non-disruptively obtain a point-in-time copy of application data. This enables activities such as database backup, recovery, and reorganization to be performed automatically and efficiently using fewer host resources. Integration with open systems management tools provides TimeFinder users with the ability to manage volumes, including BCVs, from a single platform.Load or Update Data Warehouses with Ease By using BCVs as the data warehouse load source, business continues as usual even as the warehouse is populated with information or refreshed. Since updates are not disruptive, they can be made more frequently, providing a more accurate basis for data analysis and smarter, more timely business decisions. "What if" scenarios can be run on more up-to-date information, which can result in more accurate predictions. This capability is enhanced even further when TimeFinder is used in conjunction with other Symmetrix software products. InfoMover allows you to manage file transfers between any combination of UNIX, Windows NT, and mainframe systems without disruption, enabling easy and frequent updates to open systems information while critical business applications simultaneously generate revenue. EMC Data Manager (EDM) offers high speed backup of Symmetrix-based data to tape. EDM's integration with TimeFinder delivers non-disruptive backup of the world's largest databases.Rapid, Reliable Application Testing E-commerce demands uptime, rapid application development, agility, and speed. With TimeFinder, a variety of applications can be tested with real data, not simulated or test data, enabling rapid, reliable application testing. TimeFinder lets you create BCVs with mirrored copies of information that can then be applied to new or modified applications to obtain real-world results. Alternatively, you can establish a BCV-mirrored database of information and then modify the data to test the result. In every case, applications can be developed and debugged faster and installed with a proven performance and organizational benefit. Continuous Business from Business Continuity EMC's SRDF is the industry's premier business continuity solution. It mirrors data transaction for transaction, from a source Symmetrix system to a target Symmetrix located across the hall or across the globe. In an SRDF environment, TimeFinder allows BCVs to act as SRDF source volumes for the SRDF mirroring function. Local or remote BCVs can be used for data mining, e-business content delivery, application development, testing, backups, or numerous other uses.
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