Vantage Storage Intelligence, a core component of the WatchTower Platform for mainframe AIOps, provides centralized management and intelligence for the entire mainframe storage environment. This vendor-neutral solution unifies storage operations across disk, tape, virtual tape, and tape management systems. By automating actions, monitoring, messaging, analysis, and reporting, Vantage reduces the workload on storage administrators and maximizes storage investment. Policy-based automation increases efficiency and productivity in managing growing storage infrastructures, lowering costs and minimizing downtime. Vantage optimizes the utilization of IBM z/OS systems storage resources, improving data protection and high availability while maximizing ROI through cost containment and flexible implementation. Customizable dashboards and reports provide insights into resource utilization, performance tuning, and problem analysis. Granular security ensures secure access to storage intelligence.

○ Features:

• Centralized storage management: Provides a single point of control for all mainframe storage resources.
• Policy-based automation: Automates routine storage tasks, increasing efficiency.
• Vendor-neutral support: Works with various storage hardware and software vendors.
• Optimized resource utilization: Improves the efficiency of existing storage resources.
• Customizable dashboards and reports: Provides clear insights into storage performance and utilization.
• Granular security: Controls access to storage intelligence based on user roles.
• zIIP offload processing: Offloads processing from mainframe general purpose processors.