z Systems High Availability & Disaster Recovery Assessment

Background: Business strategists usually consider z Systems as the most resilient platform. Even when you run on a rock-solid platform like z Systems, availability matters cannot be taken for granted.Challenges in High Availability and Disaster Recovery:

With Cloud, mobile, social, the Internet of Things; everything is more connected, needs to be available all the time and becoming data-driven.

Over-reliance on the reliability of components is increasing, but not enoughfocus on process and applications which puts us more at risk when disasterstrikes.

Reliability of the technology continues to improve, but exception handlingskills are decreasing

The need for continuous availability is rising, but the ability to quantify itsvalue is lacking

Understanding the cost of downtime Balancing Risk - Impact - Cost Creating a methodology for building business cases for HA investments Blurred lines exist between HA and DR Clients are moving from 2 or 3 to 4 and even 5 nines availability

Abstract: Throughout the “z Systems High Availability & Disaster Recovery Assessment”; IBM z System technical experts focus on high-level concepts at the architecture and policy level in order to help our clients to achieve their availability and resiliency goals.

Core hardware strengths that enable a z System machine to deliver world-class availability Features that help a business eliminate planned outages for both hardware and software changes z/OS design features, Parallel Sysplex, and GDPS, and how those solutions enhance the resiliency of the z

System platform.Objectives:

Identify current gaps in terms of availability, provide a baseline Discover improvement opportunities Mature HA & DR practices Reduce the number of planned and unplanned outages Improve the recovery time when these outages occur Reduce the scope of impact when these outages occur

Agenda: Brief recap of industry standard IT Availability definitions (HA, CO, CA, BR, RTO, RPO, SPoF, etc.) Overall z Systems RAS Strategy along with unique features platform offers Storage Replication technologies, Hyperswap z/OS, Parallel Sysplex & data sharing End to End HA Solutions for Linux on z Systems GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex) Trends in technology, best practices and lessons learned

With the baseline information gathered during the half-day interactive session, wewill be able to assess your as-is maturity, and identify your to be goal.Output: You will receive an IBM and Customer Confidential report that documentscurrent HA / DR status from Architecture, Monitoring & Automation, Testing andApplications perspectives covering:

Key Findings Technology Recommendations Process Recommendations Implementation Road-map

Cost: This no-fee workshop is an investment both of your and IBM’s time, and provides significant value to your organization.Contact: IBM z Systems and LinuxONE Solutions Team, Asia Pacific (sscadmin@sg.ibm.com)