Amdahl Software & Services Enables Large-Scale Data Migration While Running Businesses As Usual.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 22, 2000 TDMF TDMF Transparent Data Migration Facility TDMF Time Division Matrix Function Allows Acxiom to Move 7.5 TB of Data in Record Time Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today announced the successful completion of a major data migration service for Acxiom(R) Corporation and one of its largest outsourcing clients, while both companies ran business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets as usual. Using TDMF(TM) data management software and Amdahl Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , Acxiom was able to move 1,764 volumes and 7.5 TB of data in five days of continuous transmission, with only a brief outage for system cutover (communications, networking) cutover - /cut-ov*/ Switching from an old (hardware and/or software) system to a replacement system, covering the overlap from when the new system is live until the old system has been shut down. , finishing ahead of schedule. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ron Byczynski, Group Leader for Business Integration with Acxiom's Outsourcing Division, "We have used TDMF with other clients and had great success before. However, this particular migration required surgical precision to maintain high availability. The Amdahl Services team did a flawless job with a comprehensive project plan that was audited, validated and meticulously managed. Our client is delighted with the results. Amdahl helped us deliver excellent results for our customer and made us look good in the process." TDMF is a software tool for fast, non-disruptive S/390 data migration and point-time copy. TDMF is a completely transparent, vendor-independent and model-independent data migration utility. Amdahl Software provides leading-edge software solutions to companies that demand e-business performance and application availability across the enterprise. Amdahl Software is the vendor of choice in the areas of data protection, migration, replication, performance, application availability, disaster recovery, SAN management and business continuance. Amdahl Services Division provides technology infrastructure services to assist customers in deploying and managing mission-critical computing for their large-scale enterprise IT environments. Amdahl Services expertise is in systems management, availability and optimization services for S/390, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT platforms. Acxiom Corporation, the global leader in real-time, multi-channel Customer Data Integration, enables businesses to develop and deepen customer relationships by creating a single, accurate view of their customers across the enterprise. Acxiom achieves this by providing data integration technology, database management services, and premier customer content through its AbiliTecSM, Solvitur(R) and InfoBaseTM products, while also offering a broad range of information technology outsourcing Information Technology Outsoucing or ITO is a company's outsourcing of computer or Internet related work, such as programming, to other companies. It is used in refence to Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, which is the outsourcing of the work that does not require so much services. Acxiom and Solvitur are registered trademarks of Acxiom RTC See real time clock. , Inc. InfoBase is a trademark and AbiliTec and Acxiom Data Network are service marks of Acxiom Corporation. Amdahl and TDMF are registered trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. Amdahl Corporation: http://www.amdahl.com Acxiom Corporation: http://www.acxiom.com |
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