Four Essential Steps for Removing Risk and Downtime from IBM i Migrations

Read this eBook to learn how IBM’s continuous leading-edge engineering and innovation keeps the Power Systems platform at the forefront of enterprise computing performance, scalability, and adaptability. Specifically architected for the most data intensive workloads, IBM i systems combine true enterprise-class processing capabilities with the flexibility of hybrid cloud deployment, including traditional on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud.

Your business must also meet accelerating demands for IT scalability, cloud integration and total security in the face of today’s advanced cyber threats. Which is why you are making the smart choice to upgrade your Power Systems hardware. But before you can start reaping the benefits of IBM’s latest innovations, you must first tackle the challenging process of migrating your existing IBM i data, applications, and system configurations to your new environment.

Migrations always require detailed, coordinated planning and flawless execution. This is especially true today, when downtime of any duration is completely unacceptable. So, above all other considerations, maintaining continuous uptime throughout the process is absolutely mandatory.

This and other concerns about migrations are reflected in the results of a recent Precisely survey of nearly 200 IT professionals who manage IBM Power Systems:

• 60% say they have delayed migrations for various reasons, with the largest reason being concerns about downtime.
• 44% say their previous migration caused six hours or more of downtime (26% say their downtime was longer than 13 hours).
• 46% say they spent 51 hours or longer to plan and execute their last migration (25% say their migration took over 100 hours to plan and execute).
• 31% say they have experienced a migration failure, with the most common cause for the failure being the inability to restart critical applications on the new server within the required timeframe.