Secure Data Management

• Backup/Recovery Management
• Tape Management
• Vault Management
• LotusNotes/Domino Hot Backup
• iSeries Client for Open Systems
• Windows Backup Client

Compliance and Security

• Hierarchical Storage Management
• Tape encryption
• Spooled File Management
• Enterprise Media Management

Automation and Efficiency

• Event Management and Paging
• Job Scheduling
• Report Management and Distribution

Product Directory

LXI Tape Management System (TMS)

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• Track all tape activity without special commands or processes
• Complete tape protection—even in restricted state
• Media retention based on days or generations
• Protect media from unauthorized use
• Extensive network management for centralized control
• Device resource sharing and automated tape library support
• Comprehensive tape pool support

A member of the MMS® product family, MMS/tms™ helps corporations world-wide protect their most precious resource—data. Designed to meet the growing media management needs, the tape management module allows organizations to track all tape activity, report on its status, and control every step of the Media Lifecycle.

WITH MMS/tms, YOU CAN:

• Track all tape activity from multi-system or multi-platform environments
• Protect media in multi-system or multi-platform environments
• Share device resources in multi-system or multi-platform environments
• Maximize tape capacity by consolidating active data
• Duplicate and eject backups from automated tape libraries automatically
• Find data quickly, down to member level, via extensive inquiries and reports

LXI’s tape management solutions protect corporate business-critical data across the enterprise, including the iSeries, UNIX, AIX, Linux, and Windows. Data availability is critical for successful recovery, and in the Information Lifecycle MMS/tms provides end-to-end data protection. From creation to expiration, tools are provided to simplify, prioritize, automate and protect data at every stage. Quick access to saved data, extensive inquiries and reporting capabilities, protection from accidental overwrites gives corporations full confidence of knowing that the data will be available in case of a disaster. Maximize the throughput of your iSeries storage investment, improve administration and simplify overall management by implementing LXI’s backup and recovery and vault management solutions, and learn how our intelligent backup ensures that all your data resides on tape media.

TAPE INTERCHANGE

• Compliance with ANSI standards
• Complete compatibility with all mainframe systems
• Ability to read or write in either EBCDIC or ACSII format
• Supports multiple file tapes and multiple tape files
• Ad-hoc tape reading/writing not related to backups

TMS™ tape interchange allows mainframes and disparate platforms to share data through standard labeled or non-labeled tapes. TMS is fully compliant with ANSI tape labeling standards for tape labels, including header and trailer labels, extended volumes, and multiple file volumes.

WITH TMS/ix TAPE INTERCHANGE, YOU CAN:

• Create tapes for legacy systems
• Meet compliance requirements for record retention
• Write tapes at vendor rated throughput speeds
• Utilize standard UNIX buffering, double buffering, or asynchronous I/O
• Read and write disk images as well as standard UNIX files

TMS/ix tape interchange enables customers with large non-backup related tape processing requirements to have the same abilities as legacy mainframe systems. Extremely powerful and high performance tools make ad-hoc tape handling easy.

OPERATIONS CONSOLE

• Monitor tape jobs and device status
• Monitor and control system and user messages
• Redundant design for workload distribution and management

TMS/ix™ operations console helps corporations world-wide automate and manage their storage environments. Designed to meet the growing media management needs, the operations console allows organizations to easily monitor and manage multiple systems’ tape operations from a single workstation.

WITH TMS/ix DEVICE, OPERATIONS CONSOLE, YOU CAN:

• Respond to mount and dismount messages for standalone drives
• Manage all registered devices
• Display status of all active tape jobs and devices in the network
• Display activity statistics
• Display detailed error log in real time
• Monitor job and device throughput
• Interface with mount request display boards
• Define custom mount and dismount user exits

In complex multi-system, multi-platform environments, great demands are placed on the operators and librarians to monitor and manage day-to-day tape processing activities. The operations console feature in TMS/ix provides a simple interactive display that allows operators to monitor active jobs, control device utilization, answer messages as well as display error logs and activity statistics. From a single session all tape jobs and devices can be monitored and controlled, centralizing and simplifying the operator’s duties.