Everyone understands the importance of being prepared for a system outage. If mission-critical production systems go down, business can grind to a halt. But often, cash-strapped IT departments still have a problem justifying the expense of a failover system to the business executives. Are there ways to show a greater return on investment for disaster recovery systems?

In this session learn how you can maximize the business benefit of your iSeries Disaster Recovery systems. This session will discuss how backup systems can be used for other business needs such as real-time reporting and analytics, offloading general query load from production systems, or as a development or test environment. Learn how companies like Tiffany’s, Fisher & Paykel Appliances and Dean Foods have architected their iSeries DB2 High Availability systems to increase the overall ROI of the project without impacting the performance or reliability of production systems.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
1. Increase the overall business value of a High Availability solution.
2. Leverage your investments in production systems to provide real-time insight into business performance.
3. Learn how other companies have used their High Availability solutions to provide increased access to operational data.
4. Discover how to architect a High availability solution that can allow business users real-time access to production data without impacting the performance of mission-critical systems.