Fault–tolerant IT infrastructures, replication and clustering technologies can help support continuous application processing in the event of an unplanned outage, such as server failure in a data center. The best solution is one that integrates multiple technologies together and automates the replication of data, while monitoring and maintaining the availability of all systems. If your strategic systems and application databases are available, then your customers, employees and suppliers can get what they need from your business – helping bolster your success and competitive advantage.
A powerful disaster recovery and continuous availability solution can help to minimize disruptions to your business operations.
Automated failover of total systems
Continuous application and support data availability
Transparent recovery of your servers, storage and network
Disaster recovery and protection.
Support of continued business operations
Key offerings
IBM offers a variety of products and services to help address your continuous availability needs. If you need help deciding which of these offerings is right for you, let us
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With more than 60 member schools, the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is committed to using technology to foster collaborative research in a variety of fields, from science and engineering to the liberal arts. In 2003, Georgia State University was among a group of pioneering SURA members to build SURAgrid–a shared computing infrastructure that leverages a rich set of distributed resources for faculty research.
Business need:
Provide researchers from a collection of universities throughout the southeastern United States with increased processing power through a supercomputing grid infrastructure
Solution:
Deploy IBM System p5™ 575 cluster nodes, an IBM System Storage™ disk system and tape library, the IBM AIX 5L™ operating system and a full array of IBM system administration tools, including IBM Tivoli® Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler® software
Benefits:
The p5–575 system enables numerous faculty members to conduct diverse projects simultaneously while helping to dramatically reduce the time to complete complex tasks; the DS4800 offers faculty fast access to data and a reliable, security–rich platform for backing up research
