Seamless backup and recovery for IBM power systems doesn’t occur by luck or happenstance; it’s the result of a carefully planned and properly executed strategy — a roadmap if you will — to ensure full data protection and flawless retrieval. These nine specific steps — the roadmap — are important milestones for IT managers to […]
As businesses and their data management needs evolve, and as regulations governing how businesses operate change, so too do data managers’ needs for reliable, foolproof backup. Compliance with regulatory mandates affecting IBM I, AIX and Linux are stricter than ever; today’s state-of-the-art data-reliant enterprise can’t just hope that their backup systems are adequate; they have […]
Business owners and IT managers spend an inordinate amount of time calculating levels of productivity, comparing those figures to previous fiscal periods, and determining ways to maximize profit when business is brisk. It’s only natural to focus on how to capitalize on the good times and hope for sustained growth. Unfortunately, too few businesses and […]
In the uncertain world of IT management there is no such thing as predictability. Safeguards can be instituted, protections put in place, and reasonable assurances can be made that data is secure. But as businesses have discovered since housing data on servers became commonplace, managers can never feel 100 percent complacent about their IT protections. […]
The cloud is the new standard in the IT management arena; data managers have come to rely on the cloud for its efficiency, scalability, availability and data protection. Yet many business owners and IT managers still believe that High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the cloud are out of reach financially. Well, the good news […]
Since the late 1970s, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and financial software have comprised the bulk of software applications run on IBM POWER systems — specifically the IBM i (AS/400, i Series, System i) operating system. This should come as no surprise, as IBM was founded on the premise of producing computers and hardware specifically earmarked […]
IBM has estimated that up to 50% of its SMB customers will be using cloud services within 3 years. There are many reasons to take a serious look at the cloud, and the level of flexibility and efficiency that it can provide now, and in the future. Let’s take a look at some of the […]
Availability on the Cloud: Putting the IT Management ‘Time = Money’ Equation in a Whole New Light When it comes to IT management, downtime is a killer, and an expensive one. With the rise of the cloud, businesses are realizing significant cost savings through the increased Availability that cloud offers. It’s a severe blow to the […]
Here’s a revelation: Every business is pretty much the same. Every day, day in and day out, the same number of people show up to do just about the same job and tackle the same problems in pretty much the same way, using similar equipment and technologies as just about every other business. It’s all […]
Outsourcing IT Management Tasks Takes the Burden Out of the Office, Leaving More Time to Focus on the Bottom Line Take a mental picture: The image is a busy office setting, with employees dashing about, phones ringing, desktops humming, copiers copying and collating, meetings convening, and a general din of daily hectic activity. It’s a […]
