Growing Popularity of Managed HA Services

There is a lot of buzz at this time of year about what technologies will be “hot” for the new year.  In a conversation I recently had with Peter Briggs, president of SafeData, he talked about the growing popularity of fully managed high availability services.

“SafeData has continued to see steady growth in the adoption of its fully managed high availability service for the IBM “power” systems,” explained Briggs.  “We are able to deliver a stable and tested solution for high availability and data recovery for less than what it would cost an organization to build and manage its own solution internally.”

Briggs further explained how SafeData’s managed HA service works.  “We have a team of high availability experts that maintain stability and functionality of our clients’ replicated systems utilizing HA software solutions from Visions Solutions Inc.  SafeData takes full responsibility for the replication, which is monitored and maintained 24/7 x 365.  Our certified staff will correct errors, run audits, perform role swaps and provide detailed reporting all under a subscription basis.  Almost all of our HA clients have moved to the fully managed service and rely on us for the availability of their data.”   

For more information on managed HA services for IBM iSeries, download this free white paper “High Confidence in IBM iSeries High Availability: Six Ways Businesses Can Win Big with High Availability Managed Services”.  Feel free to post your questions or comments below.