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Disaster Recovery - A Hot Backup Machine
Maintain an identical replica of your live applications (Data & Objects) on another System i.
If your primary machine fails, some or all users can immediately be switched to the backup machine and continue from where they left off.
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Example Price |
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*noMAX software on Primary System i |
£3,400 |
A copy of *noMAX is required on both machines but, as there is less functionality required on the primary machine a copy is discounted in price. Using the Software Tier rating of your System i, the table below will give you a guide to your software price. |
*noMAX software on Backup System i |
£4,500 |
A very small System i can be used to backup a very large System i, it just needs enough disk space to hold the data and sufficient Interactive capability to support the number of users that must be given access. £4,500 is the cost of *noMAX on the following hardware
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Backup System i |
£16,750 |
If you have an old System i, then nothing else is required. A new Power 6 520 licensed for 10 i OS users, with 700Gb of useable (Raided) disk and a CPW rating of 4,300/4,300, has the capacity and resilience to cope with a significant number of concurrent users.
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Total Capital Cost
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£24,650
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Software Tier |
P5 |
P10 |
P20 |
P30 |
P40 |
*noMAX Price |
£4,500 |
£6,300 |
£9,300 |
£14,000 |
£18,500 |
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The backup machine is immediately available for use. |
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If you have a machine, machine room or whole site disaster, your up-to-the-minute data is safe. (Recovery from last nights backup is rarely possible these days). |
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You have 24 x 7 availability of your applications. |
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Do backups during the day, instead of at night. |
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Do backups more often - every hour? |
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Do backups from the backup machine, leaving the primary machine available to users. |
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Run reports and enquiries on the backup machine. |
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Use the second machine for development etc. |
Click here for specific pricing or to register for your free 30 day trial / demonstration |
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