IBM i HA/DR Solutions

Join Steve Finnes, Brian Nordland, and Aaron Fistler in examining the HA/DR solutions available on IBM i. There will be discussions of available options and any recent updates to these platforms.

Steve Finnes

IBM Product Manager

Steve has spent several years in IBM with positions spanning basic research to product development, product offering and marketing. He is the product offering manager for IBM Power Systems with responsibility for PowerHA for AIX, PowerHA for IBM i and the CBU.

Brian Nordland

Software Architect, HelpSystems

Brian Nordland is the architect for the PowerHA SystemMirror for i product at HelpSystems. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and users groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple patent applications and co-author on technical publications in high availability and distributed computing.

Prior to joining HelpSystems Brian spent six years with IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. Roles at IBM included being the development architect for PowerHA and working on IBM i virtual I/O and communication I/O device drivers. He earned his master's degree in software engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2017.

Aaron Fistler

Principal Software Engineer

Fortra

Aaron is an experienced software developer with experience in backup and recovery software products.
He has strong communication skills, with background in object oriented programming, software design,
agile/lean development, and test.