Recommended Vendor Profile

High Availability and DR Discovery Partners

Profile for partner roles that support IBM i continuity planning, replication, failover testing, and disaster recovery design.

Company Overview

HA and DR partners help buyers connect continuity goals to actual architecture, staffing, and test discipline. The strongest partner fit often depends on whether the buyer needs strategic planning, replication implementation, managed oversight, or test-cycle support.

These projects usually involve more executive risk discussion than ordinary infrastructure purchases.

Best Fit

Best fit for buyers with defined downtime tolerance pressure, whether from executive mandate, customer SLA, or a past outage.

Recommended Use Cases

  • Organizations with low tolerance for downtime
  • Teams planning secondary site or replication strategies
  • Buyers that need continuity expertise beyond product licensing

Strengths

  • Translate RTO and RPO targets into realistic architecture and staffing plans
  • Run failover tests that expose gaps before a real outage does
  • Facilitate the executive risk conversation, not just the technical one

Considerations

  • Ask how often they recommend live failover testing versus tabletop review
  • Confirm experience with the specific replication approach being considered
  • Clarify who owns failover decisions during an actual event

Discovery Steps

  • Clarify RTO and RPO expectations with business owners
  • Review current backup, HA, and DR overlap
  • Decide how much internal staff will own day-to-day continuity management

Specialties

Failover design Replication planning Recovery testing Continuity governance

Integrations

Replication and clustering software Network and secondary-site infrastructure Monitoring and alerting platforms

Support

Usually begins with a continuity or risk assessment, followed by implementation and either scheduled test-cycle support or ongoing managed oversight.