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
使用當代技術建立業務應用程式並實現業務應用程式的現代化
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
將 IBM 大型主機應用程式、交付過程、存取及基礎結構現代化
將主機應用程式存取現代化:更容易使用、整合、管理,而且也更安全
達到企業內系統互通
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
安全開發、安全性測試、持續監控與保護
Augment human intelligence
適用於資料去識別化和隱私的加密、憑證化和金鑰管理
身份識別與存取管理的整合方法
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
透過關聯、資料擷取與分析功能,偵測已知與未知的威脅
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
以機器學習為基礎,加強終端使用者體驗並提高服務台效率
混合式 IT 的第一個容器化自主監控解決方案
自動管理傳統網路、虛擬網路和軟體定義的網路
探索與管理混合 IT 環境中的組態項目 (CI)。
簡化履行自動化並執行管理
將端對端 IT 程序自動化
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
在整個資料中心自動化佈建、修補與合規作業
在企業內建立、保護和擴展自動化業務流程
Micro Focus 一站式訓練
培養邁向成功的技能
加快速度、消除瓶頸,不斷提升軟體交付能力
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
實現核心業務系統的現代化以推動業務轉型
使用當代技術建立業務應用程式並實現業務應用程式的現代化
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
將 IBM 大型主機應用程式、交付過程、存取及基礎結構現代化
將主機應用程式存取現代化:更容易使用、整合、管理,而且也更安全
達到企業內系統互通
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
為您所有工作的核心提供安全防護,包含營運、應用程式、身分識別與資料
安全開發、安全性測試、持續監控與保護
Augment human intelligence
適用於資料去識別化和隱私的加密、憑證化和金鑰管理
身份識別與存取管理的整合方法
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
透過關聯、資料擷取與分析功能,偵測已知與未知的威脅
Access all products in CyberRes
值得信賴、經過法律驗證、遵循法規和隱私的解決方案
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 IT Operations 與 DevOps 齊頭並進
以機器學習為基礎,加強終端使用者體驗並提高服務台效率
混合式 IT 的第一個容器化自主監控解決方案
自動管理傳統網路、虛擬網路和軟體定義的網路
探索與管理混合 IT 環境中的組態項目 (CI)。
簡化履行自動化並執行管理
將端對端 IT 程序自動化
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
在整個資料中心自動化佈建、修補與合規作業
在企業內建立、保護和擴展自動化業務流程
Access all products in IT Operations Management
制定策略並轉變您的混合 IT。
透過即時分析和搜尋非結構資料,從大數據獲得深刻見解。
賦予團隊強大力量,完整發揮事業潛力
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