The newest edition of this unique report is filled with survey findings from over 4,000 individuals responsible for the resilience and protection of AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments. Discover if and how your peers are meeting recovery-time and recovery-point objectives, disaster recovery plans and more. Read more.

Journaling? RAID? Vaulting? Mirroring? Know your data protection and recovery options! Download this information-packed 29-page report that reviews the spectrum of IBM i (i5/OS) and AIX resilience and recovery technologies and best practices choices, including the latest, next-generation solutions. Read more.

This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution. Readers can quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT strategy. Read more.

With the ever-increasing reliance of businesses upon their IT systems and electronically stored business data comes an equivalent increase in management’s duty to eprotecting them against all causes of loss or damage. This white paper will address the assessment of threats to your IT operations, inclusive of systems, applications, and data, and will guide you through the process of developing solid numbers around the potential costs they represent. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can transform that non-productive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime for your organization. Read more.

Aberdeen Group has embarked on a survey of end-users, in different job roles and across numerous industry sectors, to gain insight into customers’ data protection strategies. About 100 customers were surveyed and the results presented in this white paper reveal what drives customers’ data protection strategies. Read more.

For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, CDP (Continuous Data Protection) is an essential consideration. Analysts agree that businesses will be incorporating this strategy in the next few years as part of an integrated solution. CDP enables you to reverse data corruption in a fraction of the time and labor required for recovery from tape. Find out how CDP provides the easiest, most effective protection against the loss of critical data. Read more.

For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, PowerHA (formerly HACMP) clusters multiple servers to shared storage, offering automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering is only one part of a truly resilient IT infrastructure. The other essential component is data replication technology. Read more.

Planning for recovery is a requirement in businesses of all sizes. Business requirements are not the only mandates that may be driving the evolution of your recovery plan. Various industry-specific regulatory mandates, including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and SEC, specify requirements for data retention and recoverability. Do you have a plan that meets your recovery requirements across these areas? Read more.

Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers have seen the importance of business uptime and data protection to continued success, productivity and profitability. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. Read more.

IT departments that find it increasingly difficult to perform upgrades and system migrations on weekends – even long holiday weekends – will soon be faced with a hard decision: Either limp along on an old, overburdened server or upgrade to a more powerful model but face hours of downtime during key operating hours. There is, however, a third option. Download this executive overview and learn how to affordably remedy the problem of downtime during server upgrades. Read more.

Until recently, System i high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Read about what has changed in both the technology as well as the marketplace that has made it possible for small and mid-sized companies to cost-justify the “luxury” of rapid and complete data recovery. Read more.

Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software. Read more.

This paper presents an overview of System i high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic processes. Also provided is information on the cost of planned and unplanned downtime, and a brief overview of disaster recovery strategies. Read more.

Since firms are being held to a higher standard of high availability, the challenge for most is to design server and storage systems that are truly continuous and that guard against unplanned downtime. That means high availability, long associated with application/system uptime, is evolving to include the service of data availability. Find out how Aberdeen uses two key performance criteria to distinguish Best in Class (BIC) companies that leverage a high availability strategy. Read more.

Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of your SAP® application, or its underlying data, represents a serious threat to your ability to deliver your products and services to your customers. This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies. Read more.

This white paper shows you how a software-based data replication solution can drive value by providing simplified, on-demand enterprise-wide data sharing and right-time data integration for any business. It’ll review how such a solution can easily enable data replication from and between today’s most popular databases and every organization’s nightmare: legacy databases. Read more.

A set of highly automated System i management and optimization tools can reduce the strain on the IT department, while ensuring timely performance of vital management and optimization tasks. But before you can set out to evaluate the tools available to undertake this automation, you must first have a clear understanding of what needs to be done. This white paper examines some of the areas that you need to address in order to ensure healthy System i operations that deliver the highest possible performance. Read more.

IBM i provides a wealth of data to help analyze performance and storage usage. This information can be employed to liberate wasted space and tune the system. The problem is that, using IBM i administration tools alone, much of this information is cumbersome to access and in some instances, easy to overlook. This executive overview explores the requirements for these tools and details how to fully utilize the data to optimize the performance and storage of the system. Read more.

Companies that rely on financial management and ERP applications are realizing that ongoing archiving can provide a long-term solution to the problem of accelerating database growth. Advanced Data Archiving is required to achieve effective, sustainable Data Lifecycle Management. This white paper explores the key issues driving the need for more effective and manageable data archiving and provides a roadmap to sustainable data management that also yields measurable ROI. Read more.

Credit union members are now demanding that certain services be available 24 hours a day and outages of these services are very noticeable to an ever increasing audience. This paper explains how to achieve minimal data loss as well as rapid, reliable recovery all while not imposing any downtime on production applications. Read more.

Not complying with the recently imposed financial regulations may have serious consequences for financial services institutions. The goals of this white paper are to explain the impact of specific regulations on information availability and to give an overview of the range of solutions available. It also offers straightforward guidance on how to develop an effective Information Availability strategy. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. It includes an “Action Worksheet” to use in discussions with your IT executives. Read more.

This white paper shows how Vision Solutions’ MIMIX® Information Availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance. Read more.

This white paper describes how high availability software, like Vision Solutions’ MIMIX information availability solution, eliminates planned and unplanned downtime and ensures that retail data and applications remain available even in the face of disasters or hardware and software failures or during inevitable maintenance periods. Read more.

This white paper provides an overview of information availability solutions for gaming organizations. Find out how to use information availability to cut costs, improve customer services and solve your data protection challenges. Discover strategies that could make the difference for your gaming organization. Read more.

In this white paper, you’ll learn how an information availability solution helps transportation companies fulfill their commitments to customers and maximize business performance by keeping IT systems protected and available. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. It can enable your organization to immediately tap into the unused value—downtime—that exists within your IT infrastructure. Read more.