ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化:更易于使用,更易于集成,更易于管理,更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
通过关联、数据引入和分析,检测已知和未知威胁
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化,执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
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培养技能,获得成功
加快速度、消除瓶颈,不断提升软件交付能力
ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
Access all products in application delivery management
实现核心业务系统现代化,以推动业务转型
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化:更易于使用,更易于集成,更易于管理,更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Access all products in Application Modernization & Connectivity
让您的任何工作都以安全为中心;操作、应用程序、身份和数据
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
通过关联、数据引入和分析,检测已知和未知威胁
Access all products in CyberRes
值得信赖和久经考验的合法、合规和隐私解决方案
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
Access all products in Information Management and Governance
使您的 IT Operations 与 DevOps 齐头并进
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化,执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
Access all products in IT Operations Management
制定战略,变革混合 IT。
凭借实时分析和搜索非结构化数据,获得大数据洞察分析。
Consolidate backup approach across six different sites, to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and full regulation compliance.
As part of the pharmaceutical industry, Almac operates in a highly regulated environment, with very strict IT and data backup requirements. With its global headquarters based in Northern Ireland, five additional remote sites are located across the rest of the UK and Ireland. Initially each site accessed production data directly from the HQ facility and, as a result, no long-term retention backup plan was required.
However, as a result of continued expansion, the sites experienced significant growth and several challenges emerged, as Darren O’Neill, Infrastructure Systems Engineer for Almac, explains: “The remote sites began generating their own production data, but we didn’t have a local tape infrastructure for long term backup retention. At our HQ we use Micro Focus Data Protector as our enterprise backup solution, however at our remote sites we opted for a VM backup solution for periodic data replication back to the HQ. Continuing with this strategy at the remote sites, but complying with our production data backup requirements, would need a local tape solution alongside maintenance and support. With our environment growing more diverse using multiple databases, the licensing structure with our previous solution had integration limitations and did not offer the seamless link with HPE StoreOnce which Data Protector included.”
The company and data growth also meant an overall rethink in backup strategies. It took 65 hours to run a full backup of 50TB to two data centers to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. This was performed every weekend and would often cause various challenges for O’Neill, especially in the case of drive or tape issues. Almac looked for a solution to streamline its HQ backup and bring its remote sites in line with long term data retention policies.
The Almac Group (Almac) is an established contract development and manufacturing organization providing an extensive range of integrated services across the drug development lifecycle to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors globally. Services range from R&D, biomarker discovery development and commercialization, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply, IRT (IVRS/IWRS), through to commercial-scale manufacture. The international company is a privately-owned organization which has grown organically over the past five decades now employing over 5,000 highly skilled personnel across 17 facilities including Europe, the US and Asia.
Darren O’Neill – INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Almac Group
Implementing Data Protector at the remote sites ensures StoreOnce Catalyst replication back to HQ and central GUI-based management of all remote backups. The Data Protector StoreOnce Catalyst replication approach is the most secure option, as it will guarantee completion, even when it encounters low bandwidth. Previous remote backups, using copy replication, had the potential to time out without completing.
A capacity-based licensing model is adaptable to company growth and additional remote sites. O’Neill explains why this model works well for Almac: “Capacity-based licensing for Data Protector gives us unlimited integration. We already have almost 60 different integration points and this is growing all the time. Data Protector’s seamless integration with different databases is hugely beneficial. The centralized license administration portal is user friendly and the model is scalable and predictable enabling us to budget for growth.”
Combining Data Protector with StoreOnce as the main target repository for all backups has dramatically improved the backup time. Even though data volumes have doubled to over 110TB, a full duplicated backup now takes just 35 hours because of the concurrent streaming of backup activities.
In addition to halving backup times, O’Neill can see many other benefits: “A consolidated deployment method for any new remote backup environment has made my job much smoother. We have minimized our overall infrastructure footprint and still are able to offer full DR capabilities to our remote sites. We save on associated costs of additional tapes and no longer have the requirement to continuously validate and document change control processes. Our backup success rate has drastically improved and the centralized administration makes it much easier to operate and restore backups.”
He concludes:
Darren O’Neill – INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Almac Group