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E-business, ERP solutions, and virtual organizations
have created a new requirement for businesses today
– keeping applications and data available for
end users around the clock. In many of today’s
business environments, this has become a requirement,
not a luxury. System reliability is not enough, and
managing planned and unplanned downtime has become
a significant issue for IT organizations. In every
company, there is at least one "business critical
application" on which the company's day-to-day operations
and overall health of the organization depend. If
that application is not available to users at the
time they need it, business opportunities are lost.
This can translate into idle workers, lost revenues,
and significant business risk.
In addition, overall data and storage requirements
are growing at explosive rates in businesses today.
Now that new storage system technologies and price/performance
solutions are available to address these requirements,
many customers must deal with a new set of business
issues related to storage systems management - these
include resource utilization, growth and administration,
scalability, performance and manageability, in addition
to high availability and disaster recovery.
As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Dynamix Group
can deliver cost effective solutions that help you
manage the impact of these issues, while improving
the performance and availability of your critical
applications. Dynamix will analyze your storage business
needs and determine correct system specifications
and solutions to meet them. This recommendation may
include servers, storage systems, storage area networks
(SANs), peripherals and storage management software.
If you are considering the implementation of a high
availability (HA) solution, Dynamix Group can recommend
various IBM System i HA solution providers and solution
types that provide disaster recovery or continuous
availability for your iSeries operations.
The advantage of a third party solution is that
it should eliminate the need to author custom programming
that utilizes the functions provided by i5/OS. Even
then it is critical to establish a clear set of business
objectives and to be familiar with the HA Independent
Software Vendor (ISV). A particular solution’s
actual capabilities and behavior depends on the specific
implementation, which may have its own unique set
of characteristics and limitations. Due diligence
and fundamental research can help you determine the
strengths of a given solution. Finally, it is important
to find references that have experienced business
recovery actions with the solution being considered.
Dynamix Group provides a wide range of storage management
services for the IBM System i platform. Our skilled
professionals have impressive track records in applying
knowledge and technology to solve complex business
problems. They average over 22 years of experience
in a variety of business and information technology
disciplines. Examples of services we provide include:
- High Availability Implementation - Detailed
system planning, installation and customization
of hardware and software, configuration of storage
software, extensive testing and documentation, knowledge
and skills transfer.
- Storage Area Network (SAN) / Enterprise Storage
Server (ESS) Implementation - SAN / ESS consulting
and design, planning, installation, configuration,
skills transfer, system management .
- Disaster Recovery - Review customers' enterprise,
make recommendations for disaster recovery and document
detailed plans for recovery, knowledge and skills
transfer.
- Enterprise Data Backup - Review customers'
enterprise, analyze current backup strategies, develop/deploy
an enterprise backup solution that is scalable/
administered from anywhere securely, provide the
customer with documentation, knowledge and skills
transfer.
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