• NEW: Podcast: Issues, Trends, and Directions for System i Business Continuity

Spend 20 minutes and learn from Steven Finnes, IBM's System i Business Continuity Product Manager, the latest trends and technologies that are adding increased resiliency and availability to the IBM System i platform for companies that cannot tolerate downtime.

• Aberdeen research paper: Data Protection Benchmark Report

In the beginning there was tape -- and only tape. Much has changed in the last five or six years. Data protection is no longer just an afterthought ─ a task relegated to the IT administrator on the graveyard shift ─ but it has become a critical business practice; the process has evolved into a full-fledged discipline. In the last few years, data protection has been marked with a strong surge in innovation. To gain some clarity on the data protection market, Aberdeen Group embarked on a survey of end users, in different job roles and across numerous industry sectors, to gain insight into customers’ data protection strategies.

• White Paper: The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity

This vital DR white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution. Readers will be able to quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT strategy.

Be sure to take advantage of the complete collection of free DR educational resources in Vision Solutions' disaster recovery planning resource center. From business continuity to improving tape save processes to high availability best-practices and technologies, click here for valuable information.

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