Why Your Mainframe Needs Disaster Recovery
Today’s mainframes are being attacked along two fronts. The severity of the cybersecurity threat landscape continues to increase as attacks become more sophisticated and frequent. Natural disasters are also creating risk for mainframe users, as the weather across the country continues to be volatile with floods, hurricanes, tornados, and wildfires caused by excessive heat and drought. Companies that rely on mainframes to conduct their business need a robust disaster recovery solution to remain available and reliable under the most adverse conditions.
Our IBM Z System Disaster Recovery Services
We deliver our Disaster Recovery Services by connecting your company’s data center to our Massachusetts data center through a secure virtual private network (VPN). At our data center, we provide CPU, Disk Storage, and replication through Virtual Tape.
Our Core Services for Disaster Recovery include:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Z CPU availability for DR requirements
- Shared Storage through IBM Disk and Virtual Tape
- Global Mirror Disk Replication to PSR
- Virtual Tape Replication to PSR
- Highly Flexible Testing
Optional Add-On Services include:
- PSR System Programming Services
- PSR DR Test Plan Development
- Ability to place non-Z equipment at PSR
Virtual Tape for Disaster Recovery
Through our partnership with Luminex, PSR offers an innovative Virtual Tape as a Service bundle to streamline disaster recovery. By integrating disaster recovery with virtual tape, we ensure that your data is immediately available for recovery at our disaster recovery site. Our Virtual Tape as a Service for disaster recovery is cost effective because it follows a subscription model that doesn’t require any upfront capital investment. A secure VPN connection is provided as part of our virtual tape service to ensure data privacy without dedicated bandwidth charges.
Global Mirror Disk Replication
As you begin to develop a disaster recovery solution, you need to understand your recovery time objective (RTO) or how long it will take your organization to get back up and running, as well as your recovery point objective (RPO) or the latest period of data which can be recovered. With PSR Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), improvements to both RPO and RTO can be accomplished with Global Mirror Disk Replication. Disaster Recovery data replication can take place from a hosted production mainframe at PSR or your in-house mainframe system.
Why Choose PSR for Mainframe Disaster Recovery?
At PSR, we dedicate ourselves to providing services for IBM Z Systems. As part of our Core Z Infrastructure Services, we offer Disaster Recovery. By delivering Disaster Recovery, we take the burden of data resiliency off the shoulders of our customers, making it easier and more affordable for them to continue their mainframe journey with confidence. PSR will work with your organization to understand your needs and develop a solution to exceed your expectations.
We provide disaster recovery for mainframes at a modest monthly fee, which is often lower than what our customers have been paying for third-party providers. PSR is always looking to strengthen our disaster recovery capabilities, so we are planning on investing in the expansion of our Massachusetts data center to accommodate larger mainframes and offer more storage.