Presentation
From Backup File to Analytics Asset: Rethinking What Your DR Infrastructure Is Actually Storing
Contributors
Event Type
Technical Session
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Hybrid Cloud
Storage Management
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
TimeThursday, August 2010:30am - 11:30am EDT
LocationRoom 309
DescriptionMainframe backup and recovery infrastructure is designed around one scenario: restore the database if something goes catastrophically wrong. In practice, those backup files — sitting in object storage, accumulating daily — represent something more valuable than a restore point. They are timestamped, authoritative, point-in-time snapshots of your most critical business data. This session explores how organisations can derive analytics value from existing DR infrastructure without changing backup schedules, adding z/OS footprint, or compromising recovery objectives. We will cover the conversion of backup files to open formats for historical analytics, the use of backup snapshots for regulatory point-in-time reporting, the role of backup-derived data in ML training datasets, and the governance requirements for treating backup outputs as analytics inputs. The session includes a frank discussion of where this approach is appropriate and where it introduces risks that should be managed.
Contributors
Product Manager