Increased demands for availability and data integration are caused by the fact that more data has to be shared between businesses and corporations. Audit trails on data changes are becoming a must. Typically downtime must be avoided. It is too expensive and a very vulnerable position for a company to be in.
Do you need to integrate your data in different ways to fulfil multiple business purposes? Is some data on System i and other data on e.g. a Windows, UNIX, or mainframe platform? Maybe all data needs to be replicated, maybe just some of it. Spreading the workload between different entities helps optimizing the hardware investments.
Do you need to know which sensitive data is being changed? Is having an audit trail of such changes a must for your IT auditors?
What about your System i, does it have to be 100% available? Downtime can cost anywhere from $2.500-$10.000 per minute. SOSY can help you with a true System i 24x7 high availability solution so that your production unit is available at all times.