What is IBM GDPS?
GDPS® is a collection of offerings on the IBM® Z platform, each addressing a different set of IT resiliency goals that can be tailored to meet the recovery objectives for your business. Every one of the offerings uses a combination of services, server and storage hardware/software-based replication and automation, and clustering software technologies to ensure that the solution fulfills your business objectives.
With IBM GDPS, you can be confident that your key business applications will be available when your employees, partners and customers need them.
Benefits of GDPS
Supports multiple disk replication architectures
Builds trust in services through higher availability
Drives long distance failure recovery from a single point of control with only seconds of user impact
Automates Sysplex operational tasks
Provides data consistency across both z/OS® and open system data
Uses open architecture and is application independent
What's new
GDPS® Version 4.1
Implementation Services for GDPS Version 4.1 provides enhanced protection for clients’ production data to help ensure recovery from a data corruption event.
GDPS® Version 3.14
Implementation services for GDPS Version 3.14 offers improved cross-platform support, boosted availability, increased scalability and simplified systems management.
New capabilities
Logical Corruption Protection (LCP) Manager
Provides the ability to create secure point-in-time copies of the critical source data and methods to restore corrupted/deleted data back into production, for example in the event of a cyber attack.
GDPS Metro
Ensures consistency of the secondary data (Freeze) for KVM instances running on IBM Z and the mechanism to perform controlled shutdown and restart of the KVM environment.
GDPS health checks
Offers real-time checking of the environment to ensure that guidelines are being followed to reduce the risk of undetected configuration problems causing recovery issues.
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