The Benefits Of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) For IBM i And AIX Environments

Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers have seen the importance of business uptime and data protection to continued success, productivity and profitability. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.

Planning for recovery—designing and implementing a solution to reduce the amount of recovery time needed after an interruption—is a pressing requirement for businesses of all sizes. In implementing an operational plan that ensures that both data and applications can be recovered quickly, IT managers are generally confronted with several challenges

Businesses face a variety of risks to their data such as accidentally deleted files, data corruption from viruses or hacker attacks, software/hardware failures, power outages or any of a wide range of natural disasters. Business and IT managers need a data protection and recovery strategy that keeps the organization's business doing business. For IBM i and AIX IT departments, this is a high priority.