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The Top 3 IT System Automation Tools for Achieving Operational Excellence

Automation isn’t a trick, a fad, or a trend—it’s here to stay, and for good reason. Automation has proven positive effects in areas like cost reduction, employee retention, enhanced productivity, and more. Just ask Deloitte. When automobiles first hit the streets, there were naysayers. Some claimed the new technology would be a passing fancy and

What Is a Business Continuity Plan? (7 Tips to Create a BCP)

Imagine what it would be like to have your business uprooted in the blink of an eye. That’s precisely what can happen if you’re the victim of a cybersecurity attack. And without a plan to fall back on, picking up the pieces will be a struggle. But worse, it could also mean closing your doors,

Backup vs. DRaaS for IBM i

We can all agree that critical business data needs to be protected against disasters and that unplanned downtimes can be extremely costly. Yet many IT managers are not in agreement about the best backup approach for their IBM Power Systems that are running IBM i. Some believe that traditional methods (such as tape) are still

How Managed Backup can enhance your IBM i Disaster Recovery Strategy

There are a number of options for local and cloud-based backup and recovery solutions. In our last blog, we discussed the issues with local tape-based backups. Most cloud backup services provide a basic subset of services for backing up and restoring production data. The list below shows the seven basic services every cloud backup provider

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 are a multitude of