What Would You Do if Your Company Lost a Few Terabytes of Data on your I System? by:Larry Putterman

When you think about the effectiveness of your Disaster Recovery plans for companies

using AS/400 and iSeries systems, most people immediately start comparing cost versus risk. The risk is great too, especially when you store 100 gigabytes to 40 terabytes. Losing this amount of irreplaceable data can and will cripple a business and companies of all sizes are continually streamlining their expenses to ensure their data will not disappear.

Before choosing which disaster recovery strategy to implement, companies usually refer to their overall business continuity plans and try to find the maximum amount of how much time they can survive without accessing their data. Unfortunately, many small to medium size businesses avoid doing this until disaster actually strikes! This leaves people wondering why they didn't plan before losing money, time, and customers, so planning for disaster is essential.

Some companies go to great lengths to protect their data by purchasing hardware and accumulating extraordinary IT costs of installation, labor, and maintenance. These solutions do give an added layer of security, but unfortunately do not protect against rogue employees, technical problems, or natural disasters. Other companies take a different route by utilizing remote back up services such as off-site server farms and vaulting services. These managed availability services provide a cost effective alternative to purchasing additional hardware to keep on-site.

Some companies can now design disaster recovery plans that can fit any business. They offer a suite of subscription-based disaster recovery products and cost effective services designed to meet recovery time and recovery point requirements of businesses. Primary managed services can include managed high availability solutions that guarantees recovery in two hours or less, middleware solution providing point-in-time capture of changed data through the Internet for companies with recovery time objectives of 10 hours or less; and hot site recovery options that guarantee recovery in 24 hours or less.

Safedata creates customizable plans to secure mission-critical data that can fit any business - at a price companies of any size can afford. The High Availability option utilizes a Hosted Replication format to access data in 15 minutes or less, Data Recovery that utilizes electronic vaulting for a recovery time of 8-10 hours or less, and the Telecom Recovery system that delivers access to phone calls in 5 minutes. All data is security stored in off-site carried class centers featuring 24x7 security, redundant power, data grade HVAC systems and more to support iSeries/AS400, UNIX, Linux, Windows, and AIX systems. For more information, please visit www.safedata.net.

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Larry Putterman is the author of this article on AS400 Disaster Recovery.

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