BMC Software Inc. rolled out a new Web-based console for mainframe backups this week. The Houston.-based company says its new Web-based GUI allows data center pros to view all recovery events on the same screen, to better prevent database and system problems before they affect the business.

BMC also rolled out Impact Integration for z/OS, a change management monitor that sends BMC's Service Impact Manager data about events in the mainframe environment.

"Organizations are looking at a more flexible infrastructure -- including on the mainframe -- and it's great that you can change the infrastructure so rapidly in comparison to the past," said Sageza Group analyst Tony Lock. "The traditional approach to IT is 'don't touch it if it isn't broken.' But with business pressure today, that's not a tenable situation."

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