Case Study: a leading transportation company cuts mainframe costs and unlocks cloud analytics with Model9 Cloud Data Manager

Leading Transportation Company Adopts Cloud to Cut Costs and Leverage Mainframe Data for Business Analytics

The leading transportation company wanted to reduce IBM mainframe data center costs, address a growing shortage of tape and mainframe skills, and modernize its secondary storage environment. It turned to Model9 and its Cloud Data Manager for Mainframe as a cloud-based alternative to costly proprietary tape systems.

Model9 implemented Cloud Data Manager for Mainframe as a front end to Amazon S3, enabling backup, archive, recovery, and space management directly from the mainframe over TCP/IP while integrating with DFSMS. The company retired its legacy tape systems, cut data management costs and footprint, saved over 50% on MSU consumption by offloading processing to zIIP engines, and gained better access to mainframe data for analytics with Snowflake.