Mainframes manage 91% of all credit card transactions and operate 68% of the world’s production IT workloads. Yet most businesses still rely on physical tape for mainframe recovery. Girish Dadge, Director of Product Management at Sungard Availability Services joins IT Availability Now to discuss why this recovery strategy is problematic and digs into how Sungard AS plans to make recovering mainframes smoother by adding Dell EMC Disk Library for Mainframe (DLm) to its Managed Vaulting for Data Domain solution. Learn:

·        The state of mainframe recovery today, including what most organizations get wrong and what they should be looking for in a mainframe backup and recovery solution

·        All about Sungard AS’ Managed Vaulting for Data Domain with Dell EMC DLm: What it is, what it does and why choosing this offering will help companies recover mainframes more effectively

Oliver Lomer is a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Sungard AS, where he illustrates business challenges and how technology can solve them through engaging content. Oliver has six years’ experience in marketing, commercial and sales enablement roles in global technology organizations.

Girish Dadge has over 15 years of experience unravelling data backup, restore and recovery challenges, as well as architecting and implementing IT infrastructure and advanced recovery solutions across several industries. He currently serves as director of product management at Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS).