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IBM High Availability Center of Competency

   
  High Availability Center of Competency 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.


High Availability Center of Competency What we offer

The HACoC can help to:

Provide clients high-availability analysis and design engagements
Serve as the single point of contact for high-availability resources within IBM
Serve as a single point of reference for cross-platform high-availability best practices
Influence IBM's high-availability related offerings and processes


What technology and systems we support

The HACoC draws upon a broad mix of technology and systems management expertise, including:

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
IBM System Storage and TotalStorage and business partner networking and storage solutions
Clustering and grid technologies: for example, z/OS Parallel Sysplex, AIX HACMP, Linux® and Microsoft Windows
IBM Tivoli systems management and provisioning IT Information Library (ITIL) standards

Is a HACoC engagement right for you?
To assess your motivation for an engagement, answer some basic questions, including:

How will high availability affect your business?
Which of your IT systems are candidates for this type of analysis?
Have you computed your cost per minute of downtime on the system
or systems in question?
Is your motivation reactive (driven by actual outages) or proactive
(your business requires increasing your system availability beyond
current targets)?

Location
Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.
 
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Additional Information
IBM Global Services business continuity and recovery 
IBM Systems Storage business continuity 
Availability for the Parallel Sysplex 
System i5 and iSeries High Availability 
System p servers: High availability 
System x and BladeCenter servers: Systems management 
IBM RedBooks and RedPapers