IBM i High Availability & Disaster Recovery

In today’s connected world organisations need, and users expect, constant access to their data and applications. Whether they be external customers and prospects accessing your systems from outside over the internet, or internal users performing valuable company work, any downtime is going to affect your organisation’s reputation and hit you financially.

While planned downtime can be managed by notifying customer and users in advance, such situations are becoming less and less acceptable as expectations of a 24/7 operation become more commonplace. And when the downtown is due to unplanned events, the situation is especially critical and it is important that organisation have the right disaster recovery strategy in place to ensure their users are disrupted for the shortest possible time.

Even though the IBM i is well know for its resiliency, companies still need to put measures in place as insurance against the unlikely event that their production server does encounter problems. As such, IBM i high availability and disaster recovery should be a part of every businesses system strategy.