High Availability

For IT to consider a system, service, or application highly available, it must be available at least 99.99 percent of the time (ITIC). That means that your team is only allowed one minute of downtime per week. How long does it take to upgrade your business-critical applications or run nightly backups? If disaster strikes, how quickly could you get your business up and running again, if at all?

IBM i is a reliable platform, but reliability is not the same as availability, and the cost of downtime has skyrocketed over the past decade. The average hourly cost of downtime now exceeds $300,000 for 90% of organizations, not including lost business, damage to your reputation, or penalty fees.

Without an IBM i high availability solution in place, your business could be in danger of losing too much irreplaceable data—or being completely unable to recover after a disaster.

If you rely solely on nightly tape backups for your disaster recovery plan, you stand to lose up to 24 hours of data in between backups, plus the time it takes to recover the backup—but can you afford to? Imagine losing that data and extending that downtime during your busy season!

For better business continuity management, an IBM i high availability solution helps you hold to your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) services levels, so that business can continue without interruption.

What a high availability solution adds to a disaster recovery plan that backups alone cannot handle is real-time data replication from your production system to a hot backup system, usually at a remote location or in the cloud. The backup system is both online and contains a real-time copy of production data at all times.

You can switch from production to backup (a.k.a. role swap) after a disaster happens within minutes, which means business can continue quickly. Plus, the backup system can be used to run queries, nightly backups, and other planned maintenance activities to maximize uptime in production.

With planned downtime virtually eliminated and unplanned downtime reduced to just a few minutes per event, an IBM i high availability solution makes it possible for you to achieve 99.99 percent availability—and beyond.

Robot HA Care is designed to fill the HA/DR skills gap for customers using Robot HA. With the expert guidance and regular support provided within Robot HA Care, you can be certain that your disaster recovery strategy will work when it matters most. 

To ensure sustained success with Robot HA, customers can leverage the unparalleled experience of Fortra’s very own Robot HA team. Our experts will guide you through:

• Role swaps while active and full role swaps after hours
• Regular review of Robot HA reports and expert recommendations
• Hands-on remediation services when necessary

With Robot HA Care, customers can sleep well knowing their HA/DR processes have received the stamp of approval from our experts.