Webinar on Demand

Managing Mainframe Disk and Tape Capacity - understanding who is using what

Webinar on Demand

A webinar by SMT Data


Effective management of mainframe disk is not just about understanding which datasets are taking up space. It is also about understanding which applications or business areas own those datasets.

This webinar is the second part of our “Managing Mainframe Disk and Tape Capacity” webinars. In this webinar we discuss how to understand data in business and application terms, and how tagging datasets with business information allows you to create transparency into who is using how much capacity and for what. The webinar draws on real-world experience from several large mainframe installations doing business mapping of their datasets in order to allocate costs and achieve cost savings.

The webinar was hosted by Steven Thomas, Principal ITBI Evangelist, and moderated by Mary Solomon, VP of ITBI Services at SMT Data.


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Once the processes are in place the next step is compliance reporting. This includes ensuring that we can identify the owners of the data, but also being able to document for the auditors how we identify those owners and that we have tools and processes to identify any datasets without owners.

The final step is Cost allocation and Charge-back which means putting a cost on the storage usage and assigning that cost to the owner.

Transparency into who is using the data supports several things:

Assigning the costs to the business units that are driving those costs, combined with good self service reporting on the cost drivers, leads to behavioral correction and Cost reduction.


Agenda

 

15:00-15:05 Logon & Welcome by SMT Data
15:05-15:25 Managing Mainframe Disk and Tape Capacity: understanding who is using what
15:25-15:30 Q&A
15:30 Thank you for today

Target group

This webinar was specifically targeted:

  • Mainframe Storage Admin
  • Mainframe System Programmer
  • Next generation of mainframe storage analysts
  • IT Management
  • IT Finance
  • Other interested