How often do you test your disaster recovery or Business Continuity Plan? How fast can you recover from an outage? How much data do you lose with your current Disaster Recovery techniques? How long would your business operation be down in the event of an outage? What is the cost of an outage? Additionally, Business Continuity or 24x7x365 Operation is becoming more and more commonplace for businesses to stay competitive. Most every firm has some level of RAID-type protection today, thus more than a single copy of the firm’s data. How do you manage it?

Successful companies look to ProTech Professional Technical Services, Inc. for consulting services in the Enterprise Systems Management, Automation, and Business Storage Continuity disciplines. We understand that organizations face a range of significant business issues in a ‘do more with less’ environment and look to software tools and independent industry experts to help them meet their objectives. New challenges demand solutions. Growth in the Information Technology industry is creating a new dimension of client needs that require a new type of business advisor - an integrated team of specialists who combine industry expertise with functional knowledge.

By using ProTech’s Business Continuity Automation (PBCA) solution with a third-party storage management sub-system you can increase the managerial throughput and eliminate human and process errors pertaining to managing your storage environment. This proactive solution monitors your storage environment and detects if mirrored DASD that has become un-mirrored and to restore the pair back to its original state. The top risks that cause mirrored DASD to become un-mirrored are:

A proactive automation application is required to insure that these five high risks are governed to a degree of integrity set by a service level agreement. This application was developed to simplify an intricate arrangement of technology; therefore, this application is very simple to activate and deactivate as to not create additional complexity, training and education to the operator of this application.

The ProTech Business Continuity Automation Solution focuses on eliminating human and restore errors through the continuous monitoring of your storage environment. These solutions were built using the IBM REXX programming language, which is easily portable to a variety of automation software packages such as Computer Associate’s CA-OPS/MVS II, Candle’s AF/OPERATOR, and IBM’s System Automation for OS/390. Some of the highlights of this solution are:

• Pseudo-command interface to protect volume synchronization
• Proactive monitoring of the storage environment
• Proper command sequencing
• Restore JCL init decks for non-mirrored DASD (produced daily or on demand)
• I/O response time and drill down volume filtering (by storage group/application, mode, volume type, I/O response time)

Interfaces to other third-party products to enhance the protection of the storage environment which provides the capability to:

• Achieve higher availability
• Gain host and application software transparency
• Improve automatic recovery from a component or link failure
• Significantly reduce recovery time after a disaster
• Reduce disaster recovery complexity, planning, and testing
• Increase integrity of recovery procedures
• Reduce backup and recovery costs

 

ProTech Professional Technical Services, Inc. can help you realize business continuity solutions faster,more cost-effectively, and with less risk.

In the Business Continuity arena we provide the customized automated solutions using data recovery and mirroring products from EMC, IBM, and Hitachi: In addition we also offer the following:

• Business Continuity Planning and Design Services
• Enterprise Business Continuity Automation
• Product Installation and Implementation Services

ProTech consultants draw upon their unparalleled depth of IT knowledge and breadth of enterprise storage experience to devise an optimum solution to your business continuity problems. We lead the industry in building multi-vendor, storage-based environments that enable you to leverage your information for competitive advantage. Our experts help you create and implement your business continuity infrastructure faster, more cost-effectively, and with less risk. ProTech consultants utilize proven business continuity methodology throughout the engagement process. This methodology reduces risk and ensures a consistent and effective process with repeatable and predictable results. ProTech will also educate your staff how to initiate, control, monitor, and verify Concurrent Copy and Remote Copy sessions. ProTech’s PBCA can be customized to meet your specific requirements--whether you plan to use EMC’s Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), IBM’s Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) or Hitachi’s Remote Copy (HRC) for disaster recovery, local recovery, or data migration

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