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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Business resilience is all about harnessing multiple complex, often competing, initiatives into a larger, strategic vision for IT that supports the business. To achieve true business resilience, you need resilient information and applications that can support the business wherever the future leads. This chapter explores how information availability - having applications, systems and data available whenever they're needed by customers, users and suppliers - impacts and enables business resilience.
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A free, no-license, self-installing System i utility, iSCORE™ from Vision Solutions quickly produces a simple, clear report that outlines the overall operating health of either your entire System i or a selected LPAR. Using this report you will easily see the areas of your System i environments that need to be optimized. Click to see a sample report
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NOW is the optimum time to move to POWER7.
View this on-demand webcast from IBM and Vision Solutions and learn:
- How to migrate with virtually no downtime
- Surprising ROI considerations for moving to POWER7
- Ways to eliminate the risk of data loss during migration
- New limited-time incentives from IBM
This informative one-hour webcast features IBM’s Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Power Systems, Scott Handy, Vision Solutions Vice President of Services, Peter Sa and Vision Solutions Practice Manager and SME - Migration, Craig Hartwig. In addition to learning about the significant IT and business benefits of POWER7 you will gain insight on how to make the upgrade without sacrificing your weekends or incurring data loss and business disruption.
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Optimization? Monitoring? Storage? Performance?
How well are you managing these critical System i components?
Learn best practices from seasoned System i experts in this informative 12-page paper that help you ensure healthy System i operations that deliver the best possible System i performance.
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Journaling? RAID? Vaulting? Mirroring? High availability? 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. Use the paper to better evaluate alternatives in light of your own needs and constraints around recovery time, data currency, IT staffing, and budget.
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Virtualization provides massive benefits to the enterprise, but with all eggs in fewer baskets, ensuring data availability is more critical than ever. This webcast from Vision Solutions and IBM will cover the latest strategies and technologies, as well as new industry survey results about the all-important nexus of virtualization and IT availability.
Topics covered during this on-demand webcast:
- Drivers of virtualization and optimization on IBM Power Systems
- The imperative of increased availability in virtualized environments
- Latest survey data about virtualization and availability strategies
- Virtualization and availability case studies
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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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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Grab a cup of coffee, join us from your desk and listen to John Gay, Senior AIX Solutions Architect from Vision Solutions discuss how to:
- Implement a comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Data Replication Solution with minimal investment
- Enable Rapid System Recovery
- Provide Continuous Data Protection
- Guarantee uptime for your employees, customers and partners
- Extend the useful life of your existing server
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Learn how IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure and Vision's continuous data protection (CDP) and TimeView technologies bring IT managers an entirely new set of options for protecting and recovering files, applications or entire servers. Because of this new array of technologies, data centers can now deliver whole new levels of service to employees, customers and partners.
Topics covered during this on-demand webcast:
- New survey results showing the ways your peers are employing data recovery technologies.
- How IBM Dynamic Infrastructure technologies reduce costs, improve service and manage risks
- The benefits of continuous data protection (CDP) technologies to IBM i and AIX environments
- How TimeView technology combined with CDP streamlines common IT challenges like software testing, DR readiness, tape backup management, BI reporting, user training and more.
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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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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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.
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Spend 60 minutes with Dr. Frank Soltis, the father of the IBM AS/400 platform and get a solid overview of current availability issues and trends for IBM Power Systems. Also take a peek into the future of availability, disaster technologies as well as the IBM Power platform.
Watch this On-demand webcast NOW!
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In many companies, critical business information resides across a variety of operating systems and databases. The result is silos of information that are difficult to share among each other, which puts people in the business at risk of making decisions based upon inaccurate or outdated information. This paper shows you how software-based data sharing solutions can replicate and transform data in real-time from and between today’s most popular databases, including those in legacy systems. You will see how these solutions can be implemented without spending a lot of money, without re-hosting applications, without performing significant application surgery, and without extensive personnel training.
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Until recently, high availability solutions for the IBM System i (iSeries) platform were reserved for larger enterprises.
But the picture has changed now that solutions are significantly easier to manage and less expensive to own.
Learn what has brought about these dramatic changes and why small and mid-sized companies can now justify the “luxury” of rapid and complete data protection and recovery.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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
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This paper presents an overview of IBM 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.
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In 60 minutes you will learn from the “father of the AS/400:” | |
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Get a solid overview of IBM System i (iSeries) software-based replication and failover solutions—also known within the industry as high availability or HA.
With a knowledge of the technology and functional components of HA, you can better evaluate whether HA is a cost-justifiable addition to your data resiliency and recovery strategies.
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Essential Data Protection, Recovery and Resiliency
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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Watch this on-demand webcast presented by IBM Vice President, Stephanie Carmel and Vision Solutions Chief Technology Officer, Alan Arnold and learn how IBM's new Dynamic Infrastructure initiative and Vision's Resilience 2.0 technologies are helping companies like your own prevent system and application downtime with innovative and surprisingly affordable technologies.
Topics covered during this on-demand webcast include:
- Hear real stories from the data center trenches
- Hear business continuity case studies from the real world
- Learn about real options for any situation, data and budget
- Learn about IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure initiative
- Learn about IBM latest purchase incentives
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Need to improve system performance? How about managing your disk space more effectively - or reducing time spent on backups - or managing more with the same resources? Watch this informative recorded webcast to learn about Vision Director, a highly integrated set of applications that automates and pro-actively monitors, manages and optimizes IBM System i servers, databases and application environments.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Join Vision Solutions and IBM as Stephanie Caramel, Ed Vesely and Lee Walkky discuss features and values of IBM's new Power7 offerings along with new Migrate While Active PowerPacks for Power7.
Topics covered include:
- Features and value propositions of IBM's new POWER7 offerings
- Benefits of POWER7 and IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure initiative
- Exclusive research on resilience and migration strategies for IBM Power Systems
- New Migrate While Active PowerPacks for POWER7 to eliminate migration downtime
View this important On-Demand Webcast NOW!
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
RecoverNow is a surprisingly affordable disaster recovery solution that raises the save and restore capabilities of your tape save processes to new levels. RecoverNow provides:
- Rapid, easy and full recovery of single or multiple objects
- Any-point-in-time data "rewind" capabilities using CDP technology
- Stress-free recovery of full applications and databases
- Elimination of downtime from all of your tape save processes
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
IT departments tasked with bringing information systems in line with the organization's compliance requirements must find ways of making IT infrastructure increasingly resilient. But how does IT's resiliency plans take into consideration all of the factors of often conflicting government, industry and service-levels requirements? This chapter gives you valuable facts to consider as you make the necessary integration between compliance regulations and information availability.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Users
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.
LATEST VERSION!!
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If your business relies on System i and needs to upgrade to Power 6 you’ll want to listen to this on-demand webcast. Experts from Vision Solutions will provide valuable insight on how to upgrade your hardware and your operating system without downtime, then test your new environment on the spot while your production environment runs without interruption. Learn how to cut downtime for upgrades and migrations from days to minutes while slashing the risk of losing data during the process.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Smart executives know that the cumulative cost of smaller business interruptions is a more immediate and tangible threat than disasters. A key application going offline at the wrong time, even for a few minutes, can cost a company many thousands of dollars. This new e-book chapter takes shows you how to apply a balanced and effective set of solutions to ensure that your organization can quickly recover from the most common and most costly causes of downtime and data loss.
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Security threats are growing every day in both number and sophistication. You are being asked to share more data both inside and outside the organization; you are facing increasingly strict security and privacy requirements. To compete in business today your organization needs to be able to respond with speed to whatever unexpected changes, opportunities or threats come your way. Download this report to gain access to the latest information on internet security threats.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Information offers no value unless it is available where, when and how it is needed. And data replication is often the core infrastructure technology that makes this happen, whether it's for disaster recovery, application integration, data sharing, business intelligence, or migrations. But successful replication is not just a matter of flipping a switch. This chapter will help you to better understand the various replication methods and technologies, and to learn when, where and how each method is best applied.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
To keep a competitive advantage in today's market, organizations must keep people and information continuously connected. Business continuity of information will result in positive gain for companies that can range from reduced revenue losses to increased employee productivity. In this chapter, get the facts about real-time, on-demand information sharing of business intelligence and data integration.
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Join Robin Clark of IBM and Bill Hammond of Vision Solutions and you will learn:
- Right-sizing technologies and strategies
- New, unique ways to license DR software
- Cost benefits of managed services/hosting
- How to calculate your ROI and TCO
- The role of automation in cutting DR costs
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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Everybody wants more--more access, more data, more availability, more sales, more productivity and more profits. And they expect the IT department to make it all happen.
View this recorded webcast at your convenience and learn how to:
- Develop and implement a data availability and recovery plan...easily and affordable
- Turn downtime into more profitability and value
- Protect all your data, all the time
- Recover any lost data at the click of a button
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Learn how to:
- Implement a comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Data Replication Solution with minimal investment
- Enable rapid AIX recovery
- Provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for “rewind” capabilities
- Improve uptime for employees, customers and partners
- Extend the useful life of your existing AIX server
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Virtualization is fast becoming the technology of choice to deal with a multitude of IT issues, from constant demands for increased server capacity, to enabling business processes, to adapting more quickly to market needs. But moving to a virtualized architecture is not a simple venture, especially when it comes to IT continuity issues. This chapter provides practical guidance for evaluating and implementing virtualization, with special attention to data protection and availability concerns.
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Craig Copeland, an independent System i high availability consultant presents what's hot...and what's not...in HA technology – particularly for the smaller company.
If your company is a small or medium sized organization that is on the fence about whether HA technology can cost effectively deliver the its touted resiliency and recovery benefits, this 60-minute presentation will provide you with a good overview of the issue from the point of view of an experienced, independent HA consultant.
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
Learn from the expert!
Dr. Frank Soltis, the father of the IBM AS/400 platform, demonstrates little known tips for seeking out, correcting and preventing system performance and capacity issues. In addition, you'll learn about currently available technology that automatically optimizes your system. Download this On-Demand webcast today!
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IBM's powerful flagship computing platform has transformed the nature of information technology for more than two decades. Learn from IBM’s Mark Shearer and Vision Solution’s Ed Vesely how the latest IBM initiatives and performance breakthroughs can benefit your business. And drill down into the findings of a new study from 4,000 IBM i and AIX survey respondents about the state of resilience on IBM Power Systems.
Topics covered:
- How the new Power Systems platform will benefit your organization
- How IBM's new Power Equation, Dynamic Infrastructure and Smarter Planet initiatives can benefit you
- The State of DR Technologies on Power Systems -- Exclusive research
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Vision Solutions, Inc. |
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.
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- Gramm-Leach-Bliley
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- USA Patriot Act
- HIPAA
- Basel II
- Interagency Paper on the U.S. Financial System
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.
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Ch. 1: Planning for Business Resilience
Ch. 2: Security Threats, Trends and Risks
Ch. 3: Optimizing Data Availability in Information Hungry Organizations
Ch. 4: Compliance and the New Reality for IT Resiliency
Ch. 5: Maintaining Availability with Virtualization Technologies
Ch. 6: Data Replication: Making Sense of the Options
Ch. 7: Recovery: Strategies for Resilience
Be sure to request your copy of Chapter 8. Available NOW in the MC Disaster Recovery Center!
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The ever-increasing reliance of businesses upon their IT systems comes with an equivalent reliance on management to ensure that this critical data isn’t lost or damaged.
Learn how to assess threats to your IT operations, as well as how to calculate the real costs of these downtime threats should the worst occur.
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TiVo™ for data? That’s what continuous data protection (CDP) provides.
Not only is data replicated for DR protection, but CDP rapidly recovers accidentally deleted or otherwise corrupted data.
Read about how this breakthrough data protection technology works and how it is transforming disaster recovery in i5/OS and AIX environments.
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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.
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An Executive Overview of EchoStream™ for AIX
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.
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This 20 minute podcast presentation 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.
Attendees will be able to quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT strategy.
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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.
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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.
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Do you consider investment in Business Continuity to be, at best, a necessary evil? If so, you are not alone. Even though disasters are rare, and despite the fact that chances are low you will ever suffer from one, you still have to spend the money and be prepared. But with the economy dragging you may be tempted to cut back on your BC investments. Before you do, however, we suggest you first read this latest e-book chapter.
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Tasked to find ways to eliminate or reduce the adverse impact of downtime on your business?
This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity and helps you quickly match your uptime objectives with the most cost-effective IT strategy.
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