Links to other resources:

Through this section, Recovery Specialties provides convenient access to additional large systems Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery resources that we have found helpful for bridging the information gap regarding mirroring and advanced recovery solutions. This page can serve as a quick reference as well as a resource to help educate and inform those who are just beginning to understand their Business Continuity options.

The first set of links refer specifically to vendor web sites providing information about their particular solutions. The second section, lists various industry white papers addressing Business Continuity issues.

Please remember that these links will direct you to other vendor's web sites. Recovery Specialties is not responsible for the content, location, or availability of the information as access to links constantly change.

To request a change, provide a link, report a broken link, or request that a particular link be removed, please contact Mike Smith. Thank you. (Updated 02/23/2008 )

Vendor Links

IBM

Business Continuity New risks. New imperatives. A new approach.
About GDPS GDPS helps automate recovery procedures...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)

Data Replication Advanced approaches to disaster recovery always involve data replication...
Ensuring Data Integrity with Asynchronous Replication What does data integrity really mean? More importantly, why do we care about it?

White Papers

Business Continuity Is Essential - IBM When the unexpected happens, you want to be ready and resilient.
Disaster Recovery Insourcing - McData With shorter recovery windows, growing data and problems with disaster recovery testing, more and more companies are looking at insourcing disaster recovery
GDPS: The e-business Availability Solution - IBM How would a shutdown of your z/OS® system affect your business?
Use Good Business Continuity Management to Prepare for a Disaster - Gartner Technical and management techniques can help companies be more resilient after catastrophic events.

Associations and Additional Resources

The National Association of Systems and Recovery Professionals

Published Works

Tips for Managing a Mainframe Internal Recovery Project
By Mike Smith (Published in the Disaster Recovery Journal, Winter 2007 Volume 20, Issue 1)
Demystifying Enterprise Tiered Storage (Part 1)
By Mike Smith (published January 2007 by Enterprise Systems).
Demystifying Enterprise Tiered Storage (Part 2)
By Mike Smith (published January 2007 by Enterprise Systems).
Designing a Fault-Tolerant Channel Extension Network for Internal Recovery
By Mike Smith (from the July 2006 issue of Technical Support).

Blogs

Enterprise Storage Solutions Topics relating to Enterprise Storage Solutions for the z/OS and large systems environments including Storage Solutions, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity implementation and support.

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