An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
We last covered VirtualZ Computing in April 2021. Since that time, the company has matured its Lozen mainframe data access product.
Lozen enables organizations to mount VSAM files (as well as files in other mainframe-centric storage methods) as virtual NFS-compatible volumes, providing cloud-based applications access to mainframe-based data in real-time.
Alternative approaches to accessing mainframe data require copying of the data or moving more than is necessary, typically via synchronization operations that are both slow and expensive in terms of mainframe processing.
VirtualZ addresses these issues. Furthermore, Lozen operates on the mainframe zIIP processor to further reduce mainframe MIPS costs.
Next up from VirtualZ: Zaac. Zaac provides mainframe applications with real-time access to cloud-based data – essentially the reverse of Lozen.
Zaac will open up Amazon S3 data (as well as any other cloud-based data source) to mainframe apps, breathing new life into such applications while extending the value of cloud-based data for organizations with mainframes.
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