The combination of GFS/ZCL and Stonebranch UAC technologies enables the creation of a robust, efficient, and automated disaster recovery solution for mainframe environments:
Continuous Copy to the Cloud
GFS/ZCL ensures that critical z/OS data is continuously (or on demand) sent to the cloud, with security, compression, and metadata preservation. This creates a resilient backup that is prepared for unexpected events.
Automated DR Orchestration
If a disaster occurs (e.g., hardware failure or data center outage), Stonebranch UAC springs into action, detecting the event and automatically triggering clear workflows: incident creation, data restoration from the cloud via GFS/ZCL, infrastructure reconfiguration, traffic redirection, and operations validation.
Agile and Reliable Recovery
By eliminating manual processes and with multi-cloud redundancy, this integration significantly accelerates RTO (recovery time objective) and reduces RPO (recovery point objective), ensuring business continuity without operational losses.
Visibility, Governance, and Auditing
All activities are automatically documented with dashboards and reports, providing readily accessible governance and compliance for post-incident inspections and analysis.