IBM System Storage: Planning for Heterogeneous IT Business Continuity

Today’s business world involves acquisitions, mergers, and a very fast pace of change in an on demand world. As customer environments continue to proliferate, a major future trend in customer Business Continuity requirements is heterogeneous platform Business Continuity.

This IBM Redpaper examines the concepts of effectively planning Business Continuity for a heterogeneous platform environment and also details current IBM System Storage™ heterogeneous Business Continuity solutions and their concepts. It is extracted from IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 1 Planning Guide, SG24-6547.

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• IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 2 Solutions Guide, SG24-6548-00
• IBM System Storage Tape Library Guide for Open Systems, SG24-5946-07
• IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 1 Planning Guide, SG24-6547-03

Publish Date
23 March 2007

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Author(s)

Charlotte Brooks is an IBM Certified IT Specialist and Project Leader for Storage Solutions at the ITSO, San Jose Center. She has 15 years of experience with IBM in storage hardware and software support, deployment, and management. She has written many IBM Redbooks and has developed and taught IBM classes in all areas of storage and storage management. Before joining the ITSO in 2000, she was the Technical Support Manager for Tivoli Storage Manager in the Asia Pacific Region.

• Charlotte Brooks

John Sing is a Senior Consultant with IBM Systems and Technology Group, Business Continuity Strategy and Planning. He helps with planning and integrating IBM System Storage products into the overall IBM Business Continuity strategy and product portfolio. He started in the Business Continuity arena in 1994 while on assignment to IBM Hong Kong and IBM China. In 1998, John joined the IBM ESS planning team for PPRC, XRC, and FlashCopy, and then in 2000, became the Marketing Manager for the ESS Copy Services. In 2002, he joined the Systems Group. John has been with IBM for 23 years.

• John Sing

Ian Wright is a Senior IT Specialist with Advanced Technical Support, in Gaithersburg, and is part of the Business Continuity Center of Competence. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania He has 7 years of IT experience, encompassing Advanced Business Continuity Solutions, network connectivity, and GDPS for the S/390 division. He has written educational material on Business Continuity and taught at the Business Continuity Top Gun.

• Ian Wright

IBM Form Number
REDP-4063-01

Number of pages

24