As businesses become more dependent on information technology to conduct their operations, the requirements for protecting their data, backing it up, and making it available, 24 hours a day and seven days a week are forever increasing. In the event of disaster or system failures, without a plan for recovery, loss of data can lead to significant financial cost or maybe total failure for businesses.
IBM® Advanced Copy Services provides a combined hardware and software solution to help address these issues. Advanced Copy Services is a collection of functions that provides solutions to the complex challenges of disaster recovery, data migration, data duplication, and business continuance. Many of these functions run on IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS). The ESS, designed for mid-range and high-end environments, gives you a high performance, continuous availability, high capacity storage subsystem that can be configured according to your requirements.
This topic provides overviews to help you understand the functions of Advanced Copy Services.