Overview

Resiliency is your business differentiator

Designed for continuous availability and rapid disaster recovery, IBM Z® provides industry-leading resiliency to protect your business from downtime. Our IT infrastructure solutions work together to optimize availability, keep your systems running, detect problems in advance and recover your critical data.

Watch the resilient IT infrastructure video (04:42)

Benefits

High availability

7 nines

IBM Z solutions are designed for 99.99999% availability to support your most critical workloads.

Read the ITIC Reliability report (1.4 MB)

Double recovery speed

2x

Restore service levels 2X as fast as with prior systems.

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Failover and stay

1 year

Shift IBM® z16™ capacity between different sites for up to a year for long-term business continuity.

Protection against attacks

500

Store up to 500 immutable copies of data for forensic analysis and to restore production systems.

Watch the Cyber Vault video (02:15)

Industry-leading resilient server

IBM z16 is the enterprise platform of choice for core business transactions. It’s the best investment for a cyber-resilient hybrid cloud.

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Solutions

IBM® Flexible Capacity for Cyber Resiliency

Proactively avoid disruptions and test disaster recovery on demand, managing capacity across locations and transferring workloads on demand.

Explore IBM Z Flexible Capacity (300 KB)

IBM® System Recovery Boost

Double your recovery speed with System Recovery Boost, now with support for diagnostic data capture, middleware and GDPS policies.

Explore System Recovery Boost

IBM® Cyber Vault

Reduce the impact of cyberattacks with an air-gapped, immutable data vault designed to restore production data with precision and confidence.

Explore IBM Z Cyber Vault (338 KB)

IBM GDPS® for business continuity

Deliver extreme availability and recover automatically from outages with near-zero data loss within seconds.

Explore GDPS technologies

Analytics for batch resiliency

Gain insight into data interdependencies and vulnerabilities. Manage the recovery of core business apps using analytics and automation, reducing dependency on domain experts.

Explore IBM Z® Batch Resiliency

Resilient storage

Designed for data-intensive, mission-critical workloads, IBM® Storage extends resiliency throughout your hybrid cloud.

Explore mainframe storage

Case studies

Palm trees during a hurricaine

Department of the Treasury of Puerto Rico

The Treasury adopts a continuous availability solution to safeguard essential revenue services from natural disasters.

Read the agency’s story

Modern manufacturing facility

Fort Vale

The manufacturer’s disaster recovery with IBM adds resiliency to critical systems and protects manufacturing from disruption and data loss.

Read Fort Vale's story

Bradesco bank store front

Bradesco

The Brazilian bank handles 1.5 billion monthly business transactions on IBM Z and gains always-on resiliency, security, and agility.  

Watch Bradesco’s story (01:53)

Resources

Join conversations about resiliency

Become a part of the latest discussions on resiliency and IT operations.

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Getting started with IBM Z resiliency

Learn how resiliency on the IBM Z platform works and how it is unique.

Read the Redbook

Next steps

Enterprise security on IBM Z

Protect data and apps across hybrid clouds with encryption, data privacy and confidential computing.

Always-on IT operations

Use AIOps to detect anomalies, isolate problems, analyze root causes, and resolve issues faster.

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