Realizing your IBM i Tape Backup Strategy Must Change

Tape-based backup is older than most people reading this article, and many organizations are still using it as either a primary or secondary backup solution. With tape backup systems, data and systems are backed up to magnetic media and stored locally off-site in a (hopefully) secured tape storage facility. But there   avg antivirus free are a multitude of problems with tape backups avg.com/retail  , such as: tapes  are avg internet security usually stored in the same geographical area as the system they back up, and your tapes may not be available during a local or regional disaster, such as a Install Avg With License Number activation hurricane, tornado or flood. Plus, tapes can also be lost, mis-labeled, or simply wear out. And let’s not forget that lengthy restore times make it difficult to meet RPO and RTO/ RTA goals.

When organizations running on IBM i finally realize www.avg.com/activate that their current tape backup strategy no longer meets their needs, their decision is commonly spurred on by new requirements or backup and recovery failures, including:

  • The organization has a tape restore failure, where they can’t recover corrupted or missing data or an entire partition.
  • A new requirement is defined by a regulatory entity or law, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), or the European Union’s General Data Protection regulation (GDPR).
  • A new requirement is specified by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), a large customer, or from an audit point.
  • A regional disaster such as Hurricane Irma occurs, where their local backup solution is destroyed along with the production system it protects.
  • A hack, virus infection, or ransomware Install Avg With License Number activation attack avg internet security hits their system and corrupts their files, and large-scale file restores must occur.
  • They experience www.avg.com/activate unintended data corruption  avg antivirus free or deleted objects that may take days, weeks, or months to discover and recover from. An organization’s backup and recovery system is their last line of defense for avg.com/retail  protecting data availability and integrity.

At some point, organizations realize that tape backup can no longer satisfy all their backup and recovery needs by itself and begin upgrading their backup and recovery strategy. There are a number of options for efficiently and effectively updating your IBM i backup and recovery solution. An experienced business partner like Data Storage Corporation can help your organization select and implement Install Avg With License Number activation the backup and recovery technology that’s right for your business, no matter what the company’s size and budget avg internet security. Please feel free toContact data storage compaign, if you have any questions about www.avg.com/activate improving your backup and recovery strategy.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and financial software have comprised the bulk of software applications run on IBM POWER systems — specifically the IBM i (AS/400, i Series, System i) operating system. This should come as no surprise, as IBM was founded on the premise of producing computers and hardware specifically  avg antivirus free earmarked for business. Fast forward forty years www.avg.com/activate and business applications are still running on IBM i – but the technology has significantly improved.  avg internet security avg.com/retail  Today, applications can be modernized with beautiful graphical user interfaces, along with big data and analytics software, all accessed from mobile devices. And perhaps the greatest breakthrough — it can all be Install Avg With License Number activation hosted on a cloud infrastructure!

The benefits of cloud-based software are profound and numerous. They include: improved scalability and performance; ease of management; and increased security. For example, should an application be running slowly on a cloud environment, you can simply and immediately scale up performance. When storage is low  avg antivirus free, you can scale out and add more. In the cloud www.avg.com/activate environment, software can be deployed and managed with greater ease. Additionally, with an enterprise-level  avg.com/retail  cloud provider (such as DSC), you’ll frequently have improved security protocols than with an on-premise avg internet security system – plus, your service is Install Avg With License Number activation guaranteed by a Service level Agreement (SLA).

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