Maxava Provide Disaster Recovery Platform for IBM i server during Pandemic Masa

Technological developments have made various business verticals begin to carry out operational activities and services digitally. This transition makes data the key for every company in providing customer satisfaction to clients and users of their products. On the other hand, if there is a problem in the form of data loss or damage, the company's business operations can suddenly stop. Problems like server outages, data loss, or data corruption can suddenly occur and immediately stop business operations. Constraints damage or failure of data processing usually occurs in the operational servers used by the company. One that has also been widely used by companies in their business operations is the IBM i.

Currently, the IBM i server itself has been used by thousands of banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, and many other companies in Indonesia and around the world. Banks in Indonesia are currently also running their banking applications and ATM networks on the IBM i server, for this reason this server is an important storage place for data and information management for banking. This is also supported by the ability of the IBM i server which can handle millions of transactions in one hour. The large number of transactions also shows the importance of disaster recovery and high abilities for data protection when using IBM servers i. For this reason, every company now needs to pay more attention to its data protection management, one of which is to have a plan disaster recovery the good one.

Maxava Helps Avoid Downtime

Have cash flow and/or UR or and/or complete balance sheet for mobile devices to report the or platform disaster recovery can make companies have solutions to do backup and recovery at a certain time. One of the platform providers disaster recovery it is Maxava. Through its platform, Maxava provides solutions for enterprises to perform data backup and recovery real-time. One of the advantages of this platform is its ability to process hundreds of millions of transactions per day. Besides, every time updated due to a new transaction, the transaction data will be immediately replicated to a backup server in another location via this platform. In general, companies do maintain backup servers in other locations in case of a data processing failure or disaster at the main production site. This backup is done to avoid large losses that can occur due to: downtime. You can imagine how the losses can be experienced if, for example, a bank loses thousands of transactions due to downtime.

Cause of occurrence downtime because these operational failures also vary, ranging from natural disasters, malware, human error, to faulty hardware. One of the important things that must be considered in choosing a platform disaster recovery is the ability to do role swap, a feature that can “swap” the use of company computers to which has been reserved seamless pattern. This makes a system that is damaged or experiencing problems can be immediately replaced by a system that has been backed up. By having disaster recovery software, data loss can be avoided and operations can still run 24 hours because it has been previously backed up.

Experience downtime data corruption can cause huge losses to businesses. According to Gartner, these losses can reach an average of $5,600 per minute. In addition to avoiding losses due to these operational failures, having a platform disaster recovery based cloud can also save more expenses for data protection manually. Companies that have branches can also do backup and recovery quickly when technical operations in branches are being repaired so that business operations can still run in minutes.

Disaster Recovery Needed by Various Industries during COVID-19

Have a platform disaster recovery as part of data projection management is not only needed by certain industries. Every company that performs data processing in its operations clearly needs a solution to do this backup and recovery. The goal is to avoid losing important data and be able to quickly get back to business. Various industries ranging from banking, health, insurance, to manufacturing can implement data projection management using the platform disaster recovery The.

During this time of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, it can be clearly seen that role swap to the IBM i backup server is very important for the company. One of the reasons is that during this time of the pandemic many companies are having difficulty maintaining normal access to their buildings and systems. One company that sees the importance disaster recovery that is PT Asuransi Tokio Marine Indonesia. Tokio Marine Indonesia is a global insurance company that promotes customer satisfaction, compliance and communication as core values his company. Recently, the company implemented Maxava for their IBM i server. By having a system backup with which is continuously updated real-time, can provide companies such as Tokio Marine Indonesia with a defense back-up against data processing failures and failures and avoid single system recovery.

Helping Small Businesses Focus on Developing Business

Not only large corporations must pay attention to business continuity, but also SMEs and startups. All companies must now pay more attention to their data protection management to maintain business continuity. Electronic transactions made digitally cannot be recovered if lost due to damage. Operational failure due to data corruption or loss may result in lost opportunity to complete the transaction. By having a plan for data protection by utilizing the platform disaster recovery like Maxava, the company can continue to focus on growing its business towards a larger business scale.

Maxava is a platform provider disaster recovery and monitoring system for IBM i which can be implemented in various industries and various business scales. Through its platform, Maxava provides solutions backup and recovery to protect against data loss or damage that can bring potential downtime too long, as well as substantial business losses for the company. By using Maxava, both corporations and small businesses that also use the IBM i platform can save the required budget, time, and resources.

In addition, Maxava is also developing a platform monitoring tools based cloud which enables companies to monitor and manage for mobile devices to report the they are like IBM i, Windows, AIX and Linux remotely. This advantage is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic where many companies and their technical staff are working from home.

It's Time to Review Your Disaster Recovery Plan

It is true that many businesses have had to review their disaster recovery strategies during this time of the pandemic. Protection against data loss and server outages is of paramount importance and this pandemic situation also demonstrates the need for all businesses to review and update their plans and strategies. With the selection of the right platform and strategy, business operations can continue to run without worrying about being constrained by limited access due to this pandemic.

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