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Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex: The Ultimate e-business Availability Solution

Overview Enterprises in all business sectors have recently turned their focus on maintaining business continuity. GDPS, the ultimate e-business availability solution, is clearly positioned to provide a total business continuity solution for the z/OS platform. This white paper includes the lessons learned about IT survival since the events of September 11, 2001; recent GDPS functional enhancements such as GDPS/PPRC hyper swap function; customer account of GDPS/PPRC at work in a real disaster and new customer references.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2002	Downloads	46
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Disaster Recovery

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