High Availability for the Real World
Russ Popeil
High Availability for the Real World
The iSeries is one of the most stable computing platforms on the market today, with an average uptime of 99.94%...in theory!
In the real world however, your iSeries is a Web server with users accessing your site from all over the world 99.94% is no longer enough!
Your usual 2-hour nightly backup is also not going to survive the real world of increasing uptime requirements for your end users.
This session will cover High Availability (HA) in the real world.
How do I justify to management the need to protect a box that never dies?
How much will HA cost, how much will downtime cost?
What options should I consider if I want to implement HA?
Can I roll my own? What about LPAR, SAN,
Clustering?
All of these questions and more will be answered.
Attend this session and learn what HA means in the real world!
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
Russ Popeil
is a Senior Product Specialist for DataMirror, an IBM business
partner specializing in High Availability Software. He has over 20 years
experience on the IBM midrange platform. He is Past-President of the Long
Island Systems Users Group and a frequent speaker at COMMON, and other
local user groups.
He is the author of the book "RPG Error Handling technique, bulletproofing
your applications". He has also written many articles for iSeries and Midrange
Computer Magazines. He is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert, an IBM
Certified RPGIV Developer, and a member of IBM's certification test writing
team. He is also on the IBM Toronto language labs RPG advisory council.