DB2 Recovery & Risk Management:

Recovery AssuranceExpert for DB2 z/OS

Recovery AssuranceExpert (RAX) strikes the balance between the critical need for Business Availability and their associated Costs. It secures growing business and helps to meet legal requirements for enterprise-wide database recovery.

 

 

Business Availablity

There are many critical components to any recovery strategy—from what type of storage media to use, frequency of backups, recovery time objectives, risk analysis, cost-benefit tradeoffs and more—along with an ongoing understanding of all of these elements as the IT infrastructure and business needs change.

RAX can:

  • Quickly identify gaps and lapses, as well as including unrecoverable DB2 objects

  • Report recoverability status now and over time to IT and business personnel and management

  • Use benchmarks to predict recovery times for your DB2 objects

RAX reports system availability as a key performance indicators (KPI) from 0 to 100, giving you a single, comprehensive decision point for the recovery health of the database.

Costs

In this time of mergers, acquisitions and tightened budgets, it's never been more important to make sure critical data is recoverable in consideration of the costs.

  • Determines recovery risk and cost-benefit backup and recovery scenarios

  • Finds objects copied too often or too less

  • Provides detailed data to find the right backup strategy

    - Interval

    - Storage media

  • Makes it easy to map your backup costs with your availability needs

Key Features

  • Provides user-scheduled health check KPIs and database reports

  • Acts as an early warning system showing recommended actions before an outage occurs

  • Supports flexible DB2 system changes by pinpointing the effects

  • Makes complex infrastructures transparent

  • Transforms extensive database checks into easy-to-use overviews as well as detailed reports

  • Provides cause-and-effect history for risk tracking

  • Supports auditing and legal requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II

  • Drastically reduces IT risk associated with data availability and recovery

  Product Description
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  CONSULTING SERVICE
 
  Recovery HealthCheck - make sure you're sure!
 
 

DB2 audit on recoverability and backup efficiency:

Periodically proving DB2 recoverability is a must for enterprise critical data. But, within today’s complex environments it can be a laborious task that covers multiple departments and IT areas.

We offer audit services that check and verify recovery affecting factors and provide a Risk Indicator of the current state of operation. Expert knowledge combined with the proven technology of Recovery AssuranceExpert renders time-consuming research unnecessary.

It’s not all about recovery; some companies are facing daily backup costs that are disproportionately growing. Based on our analysis we not only report on your status of recoverability, bottlenecks and weak spots, but also give you a cost/benefit comparison that tells you exactly, how you can reduce your daily costs without compromising your recovery SLAs.

 
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  Articles of Interest:
 

DB2 Database Maintenance and Recovery: Getting Past the Common Misconceptions

 

On Recovery Service Levels

  The Most Important Thing is Recoverability

 

 
       
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