Disaster Recovery Options For The IBM i Series
Forrester Research partnered with the Disaster Recovery Journal to look at the state of disaster recovery preparedness in today’s companies. The results were startling. Just…
The announcement of IBM’s PureFlex system raised quite a few eyebrows. “They can do what?!?” Few people outside of Rochester, MN expected to ever be able to run AIX, i/OS, Linux, and Windows on the same infrastructure.
The ability to mix and match Power blades and x86 blades in the same chassis was a great start. But, IBM upped the ante by increasing the processor density of those blades, across both architectures, which enables large enterprise organizations to experience a depth of physical footprint consolidation like never before.
The only problem with the PureFlex system is that it is costly. It’s not a system IBM markets aggressively to many small and mid-sized organizations. That’s about to change.
Connectria Hosting is currently testing a PureFlex system for one of our larger healthcare customers and plans to deploy a similar system for our next generation “open cloud.”
If you have a heterogeneous server/operating system environment, OR your current AIX or i/OS server need to be replaced, this is good news. Connectria can provide you a mixed OS, Private/Hybrid Cloud leveraging the PureFlex system.
Combine the PureFlex system’s consolidation of environments with Connectria’s managed services for all the systems listed above and you have a combination that can truly enable IT to get out of the day-to-day logistics of owning and operating IT infrastructure. Connectria’s customers can focus on the strategic aspect of IT – transforming the applications and the data into business results.