Understanding your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options - Brian Nordland

Nearly 60% of IBM i shops list High Availability as a top concern for the future, but less than 50% have a high availability solution in place to help recover from a disaster. Everyone has unique needs when it comes to high availability and disaster recovery.; there is no one size fits all solution. Learn about all the technologies and solutions including recently announced technologies such as Db2 Mirror.

Learning Objectives:

1. A framework for evaluating different solutions against your individual and unique requirements

2. The different technologies and solutions that are available to protect your critical business data

3. Which types of solutions may be a good fit to consider for your environment

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.