Downtime is not an option for any organization in today's 24/7 business environment. Your core business offering must be up and running without interruption or even in the case of a disaster recovery scenario, a disruption in availability should be as minimal as possible. Organizations must be able to restart operations as quickly as possible.
LRS® IT Solutions can help organizations protect their environments by helping you build a solid disaster recovery option and business continuance plan which will minimize downtime and recovery of operations should the worst case arise. Many organizations have adopted post-disaster policies whereby they can be back online and operational in a matter of hours from an off-site hosting facility. The specialists at LRS IT Solutions can help develop similar cost-effective solutions for small, medium and enterprise businesses. Solutions are designed so an organization is optimizing their investment by actively utilizing hardware and software in their current environments as well as the ability to use it in case of a disaster.
LRS IT Solutions has the personnel, experience, and willingness to work with our customers to achieve successful IT Business Continuance. Please call us to find out what we can do for you.
BC/DR: IBM GDPS Facility
At some point, most companies consider the effects a flood, earthquake, explosion, or other manmade disasters would have on their business processes. But few companies invest the time and resources to formulate a strategy for dealing with such a disaster. And only the largest or most proactive companies actually document and test their contingency plans before disaster strikes.
Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. offers companies a means to prepare for disruptions to critical business systems. As one of only a handful of IBM partners in the U.S., LRS is now an IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) demonstration facility. GDPS is a multi-site or single-site end to end application availability solution that helps automate recovery procedures for planned and unplanned outages. With GDPS, you can have total confidence that your key business applications will be up and running when your employees, partners and customers need them.
LRS offers live demonstrations of IBM GDPS on two DS6800’s and two zSeries 990’s running Parallel Sysplex technology at their corporate headquarters in Springfield, IL. Demonstrations can be also offered remotely showing the HyperSwap feature. HyperSwap is designed to swap a large number of devices and to do it instantaneously so there is minimal impact to applications availability with disruptions measured in seconds rather than hours.
