E-business 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. The success of your e-business depends on the availability of your mission-critical systems.

So, why implement a high-availability solution? When competition in your business environment means keeping your e-business and other critical applications available to customers and employees 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year, downtime is not an option. Every second counts. A system failure—no matter how small—can interrupt transactions and halt workflow. Your business suffers, your customers suffer, and your employees suffer.

To succeed in e-business, you need end-to-end reliability—from your hardware through your software, from your operating system through your applications. You also need reliable options for fast, efficient disaster recovery in the event unforeseen downtime does occur. The new IBM System p platform addresses your need for reliability by providing high-availability solutions to meet today's requirements for e-business.

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.

• Recovery flexibility - HACMP clusters may be configured to meet complex application availability and recovery needs. HACMP may be tailored to specify which server will take over the application(s) and which application(s) has priority.
  
  
• Workload distribution - Applications and their workloads may be assigned to specific servers. Segmenting application processing utilizes each server in a productive manner while maximizing application throughput.
  
  
• Scalable growth: HACMP offers built-in growth and helps protect investments in HA-pSeries hardware, software, services and training. Servers and disk systems may be added to enhance availability and accommodate additional applications.
  
  
• System management - HACMP provides a rich set of management tools, including a graphical user interface-based Visual System Manager, Cluster Single Point of Control and support for Tivoli TME 10.® Quick Configuration, Cluster Node Snapshots and Event Emulation tools allow administrators to easily configure, replicate, test and manage the cluster.
  
  
• Easy upgrade/migration - Non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades are possible with HACMP. Cluster configurations may be expanded or modified without service disruption. Dynamic Reconfiguration and Version Compatibility options eliminate the most common causes of scheduled cluster downtime.
  

• 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. Document detailed plans for recovery, knowledge and skills transfer.
  
  
• Enterprise Data Backup - Review customers enterprise, analyze current backup strategies, develop/deploy a enterprise backup solution that is scalable/ administered from anywhere securely, provide the customer with documentation, knowledge and skills transfer.