Real workloads, not benchmarks
Every study starts from the RMF or CMF reports and DCOLLECT extracts your own systems produce. The picture is yours, not a lab's.
About Technical Storage
We measure real workloads. Since 1997.
Technical Storage is a team of z/OS storage specialists. We have analysed our customers' own data for thirty years, and zPulse is what that work became.
Our approach
Measure first, then decide.
Storage investments are large and the claims that justify them are easy to make. We help you check them against what your machines actually do.
Specialists who read the results
A study is only useful if someone can say what it means. Our experts read it with you and tell you what to change, and what to leave alone.
Your budget and your goals
We size recommendations to your strategic objectives and your budget, and we say what a change is likely to cost and to bring.
Since 1997
Thirty years, one line.
The orange arc of our original logo is the thread. Each tool we built added to it, and zPulse brings them together.
1997
Technical Storage is founded
A z/OS storage specialist company, with its own data center and one idea: measure on the customer's real workloads.
2000
EADM
Easy Analyse Disk Mainframe: the I/O profile and response time of your disks, from RMF and CMF reports.
2005
EATM
Easy Analyse Tape Mainframe: your tape management data, and the fill rate of real and virtual tape.
2008
EAMC
Easy Analyse Mainframe Check: the MSU and MIPS profile of each LPAR.
2012
EATC
Easy Analyse Tape Check, built on EREP data.
2018
RTD z/OS
RealTime Defrag for z/OS, from our partner Interchip: disk space optimised around the clock.
2026
zPulse
Disk, tape, CPU and space in one application, built on thirty years of studies.
Where it started
A founder who wanted proof.
Technical Storage was founded in 1997 by a mainframe storage engineer who had seen too many performance claims go unchecked. The motto he chose is still ours.
Our motto
Trust… but verify.
When a manufacturer announces a faster array, we do not argue. We measure the response times, the capacity and the cost, on your workload, before and after.
The team
z/OS experts, in the room with you.
Our people have spent their careers on DASD, tape and CPU performance. They run your study in zPulse and present the results themselves.
More than thirty years of z/OS storage
Our team has worked on MVS, OS/390 and z/OS storage through every generation of the platform.
From one team to your team
A study is also a hand-over. We keep your knowledge inside your company and transfer the skills to your production and systems teams.
We train the next generation
Young engineers join our performance team for training. One of our trainees did well at IBM's Master the Mainframe world event.
Credentials
Recognised by the community we work in.
IBM Partner
Technical Storage is an IBM Partner.
GSE member
We are a member of GSE, the user association for IBM Z and z/OS professionals.
Present at SHARE
You can meet us at SHARE, the IBM Z user community's conference.
- Founded
- 1997
- Customers
- 10+
- of z/OS storage
- 30 years
Get a free study of your own data
Send us an extract. A Technical Storage expert runs it through zPulse and walks you through the results.