Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS)
AIX DISASTER AND HA ENVIRONMENT
Our Winning Award
AlxTel is excited to announce that we won AIX DISASTER AND HA ENVIRONMENT contract of amount $327,749.31. IBM PowerHA technology positions you to deploy an HA solution that addresses storage and high availability requirements with one integrated configuration, with a simplified user interface.
Contract Title: AIX DISASTER AND HA ENVIRONMENT
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services protects the public, its employees, and detainees and offenders under its supervision. The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is one of the largest departments in Maryland with nearly 12,000 employees and a budget of more than $1 billion. In order to fulfill our mission of promoting safety, we have increased security at our institutions while leading the way in innovative restorative justice projects that will help offenders reintegrate into society upon release. Public Safety operates 19 institutions, including several pretrial facilities, as well as 42 Parole and Probation offices throughout the state.
IBM®
We bring together all the necessary technology and services, regardless of where those solutions come from, to help clients solve the most pressing business problems.
IBM® PowerHA®
IBM PowerHA technology positions you to deploy an HA solution that addresses storage and high availability requirements with one integrated configuration, with a simplified user interface. IBM Power® is committed to investing in—and bringing to market—solutions designed to keep your IT environments resilient. IBM PowerHA technology is available in either a Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition for IBM AIX® or IBM i. With IBM i 7.5, PowerHA for IBM i will be offered as a single product that covers both the Standard and Enterprise Edition function.
Monitor Availability
Detect and report system health, performance and problems.
Manage Availability
Eliminate both planned and unplanned outages.
Multisite Configuration
Configurations are designed to prove disaster recovery capability.
IBM HA for AIX and Power
AIX on Power works with high availability. For many years IBM’s main focus on Power business were the most critical applications at customer sites. Implementations on AIX were related to complex Oracle, Progress, DB2 or SAP environments, where business continuity is an absolute must. Thus AIX has been focused on stability and security as well as on OS clusterware (IBM HACMP / POWERHA), which to work as stable as possible.
IBM Power HA Features
Host-based replication
Perform failover operations to private or public cloud configurations with IBM PowerHA with GLVM or geographic mirroring replication.
Clustering technology
Orchestrate cluster operations for either simple shared storage configurations and/or multi-site configurations.
Automation
Manage your cluster from a single pane of glass. Smart assists allow for easier, out-of-the-box high availability setup and application management.
Economic value
PowerHA for on-premises deployments are licensed per processor core, with a one-time charge, first year of software maintenance is included.
Highly autonomous
PowerHA requires requires minimal administrative involvement. It replaces logical replication for more reliable, efficient and easy-to-use solutions.
Integrated IBM SAN storage
Power HA for IBM i incorporates either the IBM DS8000® or the Flash Systems Storage into the HA/DR cluster.
IBM Power HA Servers
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