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JD Williams
Ensuring recovery in the event of a disaster
The JD Williams story begins in 1875 – Manchester entrepreneur James David Williams founded his own company – JD Williams. Many of the names now associated with JD Williams have a long history, with more than 50 separate trading titles. Most of the major catalogue titles now have dedicated websites, and have several titles that only exist online; just now, around 35% of JD Williams’ business comes through this growing channel.
The JD Williams IT department, acknowledged the issue of being unable to scale due to the increased workload caused by nearly 40TB of new fashion images that are hosted online. The system was also impacting on the smooth running of the mainframe system which was causing business processing to run late, and because of this TSM was never granted the tape resource required to create an offsite disaster recovery copy of the backups.
Silverstring were tasked to consult and redesign JD Williams existing TSM environment with the objective to remove the TSM infrastructure from a mainframe to a windows based environment, increase the data storage capacity from 6 terabytes to 50 (and capable of growth), and guarantee full system recoveries to meet appropriate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) both onsite and in DR.
Silverstring installed Predatar Recovery Tracker to track their data recovery processes and ensure business continuity. JD Williams are now able to restore whole applications in the event of a disaster or individual file restores within a 4 hour window, and provide an all-round service guarantee to the business.
"With Predatar in place, we can now rely on a resilient and efficient platform, and are able to manage our new TSM environment whilst reducing the dependence on manual intervention." Gary Naylor, IT Manager, JD Williams.
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Posted online on May 20 at 13:55:33
Exclusive Silverstring event; how to make dramatic efficiency gains and cost savings across your storage environment http://bit.ly/dfya2x
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Posted online on Apr 20 at 10:47:53
Silverstring announce TSMagic...understand what you are protecting and the compliance and cost implications http://bit.ly/aQXjL0
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Posted by txt on Feb 24 at 02:53:30
The end of another crazy day at #ibmpulse. The predatar stand (needs to be bigger next year) was very busy! Hey we gotta buzz going...
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Posted by txt on Feb 23 at 17:25:04
Predatar's CTO to present live at 1pm in the expo theater. Learn how predatar can help you deliver a more efficient TSM service. #ibmpulse
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Posted by txt on Feb 21 at 21:20:08
Predatar hits 5 petabytes of data under management...
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Posted online on Feb 21 at 18:27:36
Predatar arrives at IBM Pulse, Las Vegas (http://tinyurl.com/6qwdc6) and is proud to be a Silver sponsor.
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Posted by txt on Dec 02 at 22:47:01
Predatar 3.1 released. Now with TPC and SNMP integration
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Posted by txt on Sep 30 at 16:32:28
Predatar 2.5 released. Check out the news here! http://bit.ly/2bmQ6I
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Posted by txt on Aug 05 at 18:55:19
predatar 2.3 soon to be released. over 80 new features or improvements. contact us via the website (predatar.com) for an online demo.
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Posted online on Jun 16 at 08:45:09
predatar 2.2 just 8 days away...tighter integration between modules to further reduce the amount of time managing TSM...
