High Availability

Increasing demand for higher levels of availability

With global competition and customers in multiple time zones, businesses require 24x7 availability for their IT services as a precondition of staying viable. But many companies view “availability” differently. It is not just that the server hardware is active, but it is also defined as internal customers within the company, external customers such as clients, and business to business transactions can complete successfully with good performance. This requires that network, server, application, and data layers are not only available, but operating properly - applications are completing on time, generating required accounting statistics, and meeting all regulatory requirements.

Clients want to consolidate the infrastructure, as well as its management, to drive down costs and increase efficiency and agility. However, when fewer systems and solutions are deployed, it becomes more important than ever for those systems and solutions to be highly available. The service eggs are going into fewer baskets—each basket must be exceptionally robust.

Don't just react to availability problems

IBM can help. We offer hardware built from the ground up with premier reliability, availability, and serviceability features. With virtualization capabilities, robust software and automated management tools, IBM solutions are a key element of a dynamic infrastructure. All this ensures that end users inside or outside the organization can continue to access services across your IT infrastructure – without interruption.

IBM Business Resilience solutions and services are the foundation clients need to keep business running, thereby allowing IT experts to devote more time to innovation – innovation that can lead to competitive advantage.

The built-in business continuity, resiliency and availability features in every IBM platform empower you to mitigate both scheduled and unscheduled outages and aid in disaster recovery. Thousands of clients, in all industries, around the world continue to rely on IBM Resiliency solutions and services to keep them on-line and available. Learn more about how the following IBM platforms can help your business become more resilient.