GDPS

This 11 page White Paper describes GDPS/Active-Active, designed to provide an automated disaster recovery solution meeting a recovery time objective of seconds, not hours, at virtually unlimited distances.

Enterprises in all business sectors have recently turned their focus on maintaining business continuity. GDPS, the ultimate e-business availability solution, is clearly positioned to provide a total business continuity solution for the z/OS platform.

This 7 page paper compares IBM's GDPS against EMC's GDPS offering. This paper, written by a business continuity consultant, compares the functionality and positioning of both products.

This 47-page technical document describes the results of 100km distance testing in three different GDPS/PPRC environments.

This white paper explains how System z servers running z/VM and Linux on System z can provide important autonomic capabilities and rich functions to help make your technology responsive during outages.

Put IBM's experience and expertise to work beside its hardware and software to help protect the short- and long-term health of your business. Get the details in this white paper.

IMS provides many features toward availability and recovery of the IMS systems. There are four features and/or products in particular (GDPS being one of them) that can be used to provide a high availability environment for IMS systems and the data in IMS databases.

This IBM Redbook presents an overview of the GDPS® family of offerings and the role they play in delivering a business IT resilience solution.

This details the tiers of Disaster Recovery as defined by the SHARE user group in 1992.

IBM Corporation and Adva Optical Networking have successfully completed qualification testing of the Adva Fiber Service Platform 2000 (FSP 2000). This Redpaper describes the applicable environments, protocols, and topologies qualified and supported by IBM System z for connecting to the Adva FSP 2000 product hardware and software at release level 5.6.

IBM Corporation and Nortel Networks have successfully completed qualification testing of the Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5000 Multiservice Platform series. This Redpaper describes the applicable environments, protocols, and topologies qualified and supported by IBM System z for connecting to the Nortel OPTera Metro product hardware and software at release level 6.0.37.0.

IBM Corporation and Cisco Systems have successfully completed qualification testing of the Cisco ONS 15530 DWDM, ONS 15540 ESPx (Extended Services Platform), and ONS 15454 MSTP (Multi-Service Transport Platform). This Redpaper describes the applicable environments, protocols, and topologies qualified and supported by IBM System z for connecting to the Cisco ONS 15530 DWDM and ONS 15540 ESPx products at hardware release level 5.0 and software at release level IOS 12.2 (25) SV. The ONS 15454 MSTP qualification will be described in a later version of this Redpaper.

IBM Corporation and Lucent Technologies have successfully completed testing of the Lucent Technologies Metropolis Enhanced Optical Network (EON) System. The IBM Vendor Solutions Connectivity Lab has accepted the test results for inclusion in the System z GDPS Qualification program. This Redpaper describes the applicable environments, protocols, and topologies qualified and supported by IBM System z for connecting to the Lucent Metropolis EON product hardware and software at release level 8.2.1.