Pricing
Cloud storage as native mainframe disk — elastic, secure, and ready on demand.
Spin capacity up or down in minutes, choose your cloud provider, and deploy out of the box with no code.
$250,000 / year
Base license includes 500 TB transferred at $0.042/GB.
Additional transfer and cloud storage drivers are priced separately.
What’s Included in Each Zaac™ License
Zaac lets mainframe applications use cloud storage as if it were locally attached DASD. The base license is priced by the data you transfer annually, plus the cloud storage drivers you choose.
Storage & Architecture
Cloud storage as a local 3390 volume
Cloud storage looks, acts, and behaves like any other locally attached DASD.
Virtual disk and virtual tape
Virtualize disk or tape — create as many as you want across your environment.
Not limited to sequential or tape
Host a Db2 database or vendor products doing low-level EXCP-style I/O.
Mix providers and storage classes
Route to different cloud providers and storage tiers across your environment.
Operations & Economics
Elastic, on-demand capacity
Spin up terabytes in about ten minutes; release them when you’re done.
Significant savings vs. traditional storage
Replace physical DASD with cost-efficient cloud storage.
No-code, out of the box
Patented technology installs and runs without re-architecting.
Mainframe security & reliability intact
The flexible storage distributed teams enjoy, without compromising IBM Z.
Volume-Based License
Base License & Data Transfer
Zaac is licensed by the volume of data transferred through it each year — not by MIPS, seats, or LPARs. The base license includes 500 TB of transfer; cloud storage drivers are added separately.
App Store Model
Pay Only for the Drivers You Need
Zaac uses an App Store model: a base license plus cloud storage drivers you add as your environment grows. Each driver is licensed separately at a flat annual rate, with no data transfer costs.
Included in the base license:
Includes 500 TB of annual data transfer, virtual disk and virtual tape support, and no-code deployment out of the box.
Why Zaac
Storage That Scales on Your Schedule
Mainframe storage has always meant planning, procurement, and physical hardware. Zaac brings the elastic storage distributed teams have enjoyed for years to IBM Z.
Traditional Storage
Buy hardware up front
New Dell, IBM, or Hitachi DASD means capital outlay and lead time.
Capacity sits idle
You provision for peak and pay for storage you rarely use.
Tape or sequential limits
Many cloud-storage approaches only handle tape or sequential data.
Slow to expand or retire
Adding or decommissioning storage is a project, not a moment.
The Zaac Model
Spin storage up in minutes
Allocate terabytes in about ten minutes — no hardware to buy.
Pay for what you use
Release capacity when you’re done and save significantly vs. physical DASD.
Disk, tape, and beyond
Not limited to tape or sequential — even host Db2 or low-level EXCP I/O.
Mix providers and classes
Route to any cloud provider or storage class, all from one environment.
Pricing That Works the Way You Do
Zaac gives you volume-based transfer pricing, flat-rate cloud storage drivers, and elastic capacity — without hardware cycles or paying for clouds you don’t use.
Volume-based licensing
Zaac is licensed by the data you transfer through it — not by MIPS, seats, or LPARs. The base license starts at $250,000 and includes 500 TB of transfer; additional transfer is priced per customer.
An App Store, not a suite
Add only the clouds you use, from Google Cloud Storage to AWS S3 to Azure Blob — each licensed separately at a flat rate with no data transfer costs. Mix, match, and expand as your needs grow.
Elastic by design
Spin cloud storage up in minutes and release it when you’re done, cutting storage costs substantially versus physical DASD — the flexible storage distributed teams have enjoyed for years, brought to IBM Z without compromising its security or reliability.
Make Mainframe Storage Elastic. Spin Up Capacity When You Need It.
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