Disasters can take many forms. Fires, floods and blackouts can strike unexpectedly and shut down access to your e–commerce sites or network applications. Although no business continuity strategy can provide absolute protection, a proactive disaster recovery plan that includes risk assessment, disruption–impact analysis and swift recovery processes can help you mitigate risks and interruptions significantly.
A sound business continuity plan includes the ability to recover key business data quickly and efficiently, if a disaster destroys your primary site or renders it inoperable. IBM data recovery solutions are designed to provide the following benefits:
Storage resiliency
Automated or manual failover of storage systems
Fast recovery of data from disasters or storage system failures
Rapid recovery of data
High availability of data and storage systems
Key offerings
IBM offers a variety of products and services to help address your data recovery needs. If you need help deciding which of these offerings is right for you, let us help you decide.
The GUTBROD group develops and produces ready–to–install punched and shaped parts as well as assemblies and components for safety or crash protection for the automotive industry. GUTBROD has witnessed above–average growth in the past years and the number of islands of solutions in the IT environment has risen in parallel. This heterogeneous landscape led to data redundancies and a lack of comprehensive data and system management control.
Business need:
GUTBROD needed to consolidate a heterogeneous IT landscape, implement a SAN and realize a disaster recovery concept
Solution:
Two System i5™ units in separate data centers help ensure redundancy of the ERP system; one DS6800 disk storage unit functions as the central and highly available data pool for all servers and the OS
Benefits:
POWER5™ microprocessor
• High storage/IO bandwidth
• Shared processor pool
• Micro–partitioning
• Virtual I/O
• Virtual LAN
• Logical partitioning
• IBM TotalStorage® DS Storage Manager
• Open architecture of the DS6800
• Extensive storage autonomic computing and management functions
• Disaster tolerance as a result of the storage solution
