Who we are
IBM High Availability Center of Competency (HACoC) is dedicated to helping clients design and deploy the highly available, end-to-end IT infrastructures needed to make On Demand Business possible.
Our value to you
IBM HACoC draws from technology and systems management expertise across IBM and the industry. We work with clients to identify opportunities that can help improve the availability and resiliency of their end-to-end IT infrastructure.
What we offer
The HACoC can help to:
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Serve as the single point of contact for high-availability resources within IBM |
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Serve as a single point of reference for cross-platform high-availability best practices |
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Influence IBM's high-availability related offerings and processes |
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The HACoC draws upon a broad mix of technology and systems management expertise, including:
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| | IBM server platforms:
System z and zSeries,
System i and iSeries,
System p and pSeries, and
System x and xSeries with various combinations of
AIX,
z/OS, zVM, VSE,
i5/OS,
Linux and Microsoft® Windows® operating environments
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IBM System Storage and TotalStorage and business partner networking and storage solutions
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Clustering and grid technologies: for example,
z/OS Parallel Sysplex,
AIX HACMP, Linux® and Microsoft Windows
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IBM Tivoli systems management and provisioning
IT Information Library (ITIL) standards
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To assess your motivation for an engagement, answer some basic questions, including:
| | How will high availability affect your business? |
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Which of your IT systems are candidates for this type of analysis? |
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Have you computed your cost per minute of downtime on the system
or systems in question?
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Is your motivation reactive (driven by actual outages) or proactive
(your business requires increasing your system availability beyond
current targets)?
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| | Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S. |
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