IBM i High Availability Solutions Experts

Every organization large and small, needs a business continuity strategy as unplanned downtime or data loss could be detrimental for a business. In fact, according to FEMA, a staggering 40% of businesses never recover from a disaster. While many people think a backup system is sufficient protection, even those systems can suffer from outages and don’t always provide true continuity. With the assurance of near-zero downtime and reliable failover, an IBM I High Availability (HA) system is the ultimate solution providing guaranteed uptime for your IBM Power systems.

Types of IBM i High Availability Solutions

Each solution is unique depending on its functionality and features. To give you a better understanding of high availability systems, here are our top three recommended solutions:

Assure MIMIX

Assure MIMIX from Precisely, tops the IBM high availability and Disaster Recovery solutions list. From SMB to enterprise, organizations depend on Assure MIMIX to prevent data loss and minimize planned and unplanned downtime. Here’s what the system does for your businesses’ IBM i system data protection.

  • Offers Real-time Replication:
    Assure MIMIX works perfectly with IBM’s automated remote journaling technology. That way, every journal created within your enterprise, even in multiple forms, gets captured. It also works great with all IBM i servers, storage, and OS versions to capture data fully.
  • Gives Full Protection Ideal for Every Business
    Assure MIMIX’s IBM i systems can be custom made to suit any business, regardless of the size. That ensures your business gets complete protection and performs optimally.
  • Helps Maximize Uptime
    MIMIX’s IBM i high availability allows a seamless switch to the backup system in case of outages and back to the production server. That ensures a worry-free failover and a reduction in downtime. It also allows virtual switching to test and practice your system without affecting normal operations.

Additionally, the system conducts on-demand and automated replication audits to avoid hitches on backup systems and synchronize with production servers.

  • Lastly, it offers Expanded Data Distribution Topologies, which ensure coordinated and secure data protection both onsite and off-site.

 

Assure iTERA

Precisely’s Assure iTERA high availability offers comprehensive real-time replication for IBM i systems to small and medium businesses. It also supports backups between IBM i and other storage systems. Here’s a summary of what to expect from this HA product.

  • It’s Easy to Use
    It has a familiar 5250 interface for effortless management by IBM i administrators. The administrators only require a few minutes daily to monitor the system’s environment. Additionally, iTERA systems monitor production and recovery servers and set configuration alerts on any hitches.
  • Reliable Failover
    Assure iTERA allows seamless virtual role-swap testing and readiness monitoring to ensure a worry-free failover. It also provides both single-screen and granular views of audit checks to keep administrators updated.
  • It Provides Replication Audits
    iTERA also offers scheduled and on-demand audits of replicated data to ensure synchronization with the production servers.

 

Carbonite Availability

Carbonite Availability is also one of the leading high availability systems offering data protection to all Windows and Linux servers. The system provides continuous replication, giving near-zero downtime. Here’s more on what the system can do:

  • It offers non-disruptive testing. Administrators can test the system for any hitches without interfering with other activities in the production servers.
  • Carbonite Availability also offers both automatic and push-button failover. Depending on the configuration, it ensures seamless transitions and reduced downtime.
  • Also, continuous replication assures complete data security and reliable recovery. The system also allows onsite, multi-site, virtual, and cloud replication.

 

Learn More About IBM i High Availability solutions

High Availability solutions are the best defense to eliminate downtime and data loss and provide true business continuity in the event of a disaster. Contact the experts at DSIP today to learn which High Availability option is right for your organization and receive a free assessment