HA/DR and Backup

Fortra Launches Continuity Care, a Fully Managed Cyber Resilience and Recovery Validation Service

The turnkey service, built on FalconStor Habanero and Cloud Clean Room, provides organizations offsite storage with quarterly validated recovery testing.

Minimize VIOS Downtime With Alternate Disk Updates

Chris Gibson shows how to use the updateios command to update a VIOS from 4.1.2.00 to 4.1.2.10

What to Do if Your VIOS Backup Fails

Rob McNelly aggregates updates and alerts from IBM Support, including vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS, recent APARS, updateios and altdisk problem scenarios and more, including an update on his Arizona adventures

Why Cloud-Assisted Recovery Is Becoming More Attractive to Mainframe Shops

Cloud infrastructure experts explain how services such as AWS CloudFormation and S3 can help enterprises build scalable resilience layers without moving core IBM Z workloads

Reactive to Proactive: A More Confident Approach to IBM i Monitoring

Businesses trust IBM i to support the applications and workflows that process their invoices, operate their warehouses, dispatch their shipments, and most important of all, serve their customers. IBM i is the high point for reliability for any business application, but even the most reliable environments need visibility to be properly secured, maintained, and monitored. […]

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June TechPulse Recap: HA/DR Confidence More Common Than Full Validation

For June, TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about the state of their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environments, surveying 33 IBM Power professionals on the state of their HA/DR posture. The results point to a community that feels reasonably good about its recovery readiness in the abstract, but that confidence confidence softens once the […]

What AWS Availability Zones Really Mean for Resilience

Recent outages have highlighted the importance of understanding how AWS Availability Zones, Regions and failover strategies affect cloud costs and business continuity

Time to Kill the ‘Legacy’ Label Once and For All—Here are Some Better Terms for IBM Z and IBM i

Jen Nelson, CEO of Izzi Software, laments the harms caused by IT ignorance and suggests alternatives to the misnomer that has plagued IBM i and IBM Z

Why Linux on IBM Z Continues to Grow

Continuing his series, "The IBM Z Experience," Joe Gulla explains how IBM achieves enterprise‑grade open source at mainframe scale, and why the market demands it

HILP Events on IBM i: Understanding and Mitigating High-Impact, Low-Probability Failures

Maciej Wielgus, IT architect for i-Rays by Omnilogy, explains how accidents are inherent to complex systems, and how organizations can mitigate the impact of rare but potentially devastating failures