Matt Paterini
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Do The Math When Looking at IBM i Hosting For Cost Savings
April 5, 2021 Matt Paterini
COVID-19 has accelerated certain business trends that were already gaining strength prior to the start of the pandemic. E-commerce, telehealth, and video conferencing are some of the most obvious examples. One example that may not be as obvious to the general public but has a profound impact on business is the shift in strategy of IBM i infrastructure from traditional, on-premises environments to some form of remote configuration. These remote configurations and all of their variations are broadly referred to in the community as IBM i hosting.
“Hosting” in this context can mean different things to different people, and in …
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Disaster Recovery, At Your Service
November 16, 2020 Matt Paterini
Every organization needs a sound disaster recovery plan to protect their business from natural disasters, weather events, cyber-attacks, and other unexpected threats. Disaster recovery strategies can take on different forms depending on the requirements of the business, specifically the defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
These RTO and RPO metrics are not precisely the same, but they are interrelated and are part of a complete disaster recovery plan.
The RTO metric is not just a stopwatch that starts ticking between the time applications go down, for whatever reason, and when they come back again online again. …
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