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Business continuity for your IBM Power i
BUS4i keeps your business-critical applications running: our solutions protect against outages and data loss and enable rapid recovery in the event of a fault.
High availability
How quickly can you get IBM i back up and running after a crash?
A system, service or application is generally considered highly available if it is available at least 99.99% of the time. That means no more than one minute of downtime per week. How long does it take to upgrade your business-critical applications or to run your nightly backup?
Without a solution against outages and data loss for IBM i, your organization runs a serious risk of losing vast amounts of irreplaceable data – or of not getting back on its feet at all in the event of a disaster.
Business case
What does downtime cost you?
Besides the loss of trust and reputation, every hour without your system has a price in euros. With BUS4i, your restart time can be planned precisely.
- DowntimeUpgrades, nightly backups or an outage bring your business-critical applications to a standstill.
- Data lossOnline orders or EDI orders placed between two backups often cannot be reconstructed.
- ComplianceStandards such as ISO 27001 or NIS2 require a reliable and traceable IT infrastructure.
Business continuity software
BUS4i for IBM Power i: real-time software mirroring
BUS4i mirrors your IBM i system – formerly AS/400 or iSeries – to a secondary system in real time. If the primary system fails, the secondary system takes over. This creates a reliable basis for stable and secure business processes.
Your benefits
Why software mirroring?
More flexibility and better application performance – especially in distributed systems and hybrid cloud environments. Data management, compliance and capacity planning can be controlled centrally, fully integrated into your IBM Power environment.
Flexibility and cost efficiency
Software-defined replication from TSP lets you change systems dynamically and without additional hardware investment – much like a software update.
Agility
A uniform, scalable infrastructure supports classic IBM i workloads as well as modern cloud applications.
Hybrid cloud integration
BUS4i can be used in hybrid and private cloud environments – combined with replication, Global Mirror for i and snapshots for maximum data security and protection against outages.
Easier migration
The software-defined architecture simplifies data migration between IBM Power systems and offers a high degree of flexibility when changing systems or locations.
Better application performance
Synchronous and asynchronous replication optimize application performance and data consistency – especially in distributed environments.
Faster technology adoption
New systems can be implemented faster because the data is consistent, synchronized and available immediately.
The BUS4i product family
You have the choice
From disaster recovery to full high availability, from migration to journal management.
High availability
BUS4i HA
Real-time mirroring between primary and secondary systems, combined with automatic switch-over to redundant systems, keeps business-critical applications running.
More about BUS4i HADisaster recovery
BUS4i DR
Recovery of IBM Power i systems based on backups, including the restoration of deleted data. No second IBM Power machine required.
More about BUS4i DRSystem copy & migration
BUS4i Migrate 23
Transfer of user data via TCP/IP with minimal setup effort, plus system copies for migration and testing.
More about BUS4i Migrate 23Migration during live operation
BUS4i Migrate While Active
Migration of IBM Power i systems without interrupting ongoing processes: continuous data transfer and synchronization, followed by the switch-over to the target system.
More about BUS4i Migrate While ActiveSnapshots in the IBM Cloud
BUS4i SNAP
Consistent system snapshots for fast backup, recovery and additional protection of your IBM Power i environment.
More about BUS4i SNAPJournal management
BUS4i JOMA4i
Automated management and cleanup of IBM Power i journals: less storage consumption and system load, more stability and performance.
More about BUS4i JOMA4iFeatures
Enterprise features at a low price
- Physical, virtual and cloud in any combination
- Any-to-any replication, dual and multi-node replication
- All enterprise features included in the base price
- Support for virtual serial numbers
- Mirrors all objects
- Precisely plannable restart time, even in a disaster
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Supports Live Partition Mobility
- Ready for IBM i 7.6
- Live migrations
- Business continuity managed services available as an option
- Mixed hardware and IBM i environments
- Nagios interface
Everything included in the base price
All enterprise features are already included in the base price of BUS4i HA. Business continuity managed services can be added as an option.
Licenses
Our license model adapts to you
License purchase
You buy your licenses and pay an annual software maintenance fee.
Rental
You rent your license and pay conveniently on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis.
References
What our customers say
“By using BUS4i HA, we ensure the distribution of company-wide master data and system mirroring for the operation of our complex supply chains at all times. This allows us to concentrate fully on our core business.”
Dachser SE
“BUS4i business continuity solutions help us stay productive around the clock. As our backups run for more than eight hours, BUS4i HA gives us the time window we need – without interruption and without any impact on our production system.”
Meyer Werft GmbH & Co. KG
Discover BUS4i now
We will show you BUS4i in your IBM Power i environment and plan the restart time you need together with you.