More Ping / (IBM) Power / Pipe!
Less Cost / Higher Service Levels!
Xtend Consulting Announces:
i5OSaaS!
Outsourcing ? Cloud Computing ... Software as a Service (SaaS) models are here to stay, and are projected to grow dramatically in the years ahead. By leveraging virtualization technologies and economies of scale ? service providers have been able to change the dynamics of delivering new and existing applications to end users.
Traditionally, the iSeries (i5OS) community has been slow to adopt this model. The vast majority of installed iSeries customers have deployed ?on premise,? and have supported the infrastructure / applications internally. Yet, the reliability / availability / scalability / security / virtualization capabilities of i5OS, and the iSeries platform, are the perfect foundation for ?as a service? providers to deliver dramatic reductions in cost and enhanced service levels to iSeries customers.
Announcing: i5OSaaS!, from Xtend Consulting, aggressively priced and comprehensively designed to deliver the same ?virtualized? advantages to the iSeries community. i5OSaaS!, provides you with a fresh new approach to delivering IBM i5OS on the IBM POWER platform ?as a service.? Packaged offerings and/or tailored solutions are designed to include associated IBM Power hardware, licensed program products, secure WAN connection(s), highly redundant power, secure data center(s), and 24x7x365 supporting services.
Maybe, the time has come to reassess your internal strategy for delivering and supporting i5OS based workloads? Most likely, you will find that the associated savings and enhanced service/support levels warrant further consideration. We ?Xtend? an invitation to explore this alternative iSeries workload delivery approach with you and your team!
Listed below are the available i5OSaaS! Solution Sets:
Host: Shared / Dedicated Production iSeries Hosting Environments
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Reduced cost and enhanced service levels for production
Sunset: Shared / Dedicated Archival for ?sunset? iSeries Legacy Environments
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Historical / Read Only access to prior legacy iSeries environments
DR: Shared / Dedicated iSeries Recovery Environments
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Replace the ?Disaster? in DR with ?Dedicated? Recovery
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Pricing typically less than traditional DR outsourced offerings
HA: Shared / Dedicated High Availability Target Environments
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Continuous Availablity Powered by EDD and BCS
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New price points enable SMB adoption (as little as $50/day!)
BI: Shared / Dedicated iSeries Business Intelligence Environments
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Replicated / Offloading Production iSeries Environment for BI
Migrate: Short Term Environments Release and/or Application Upgrades
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ex: i6.1 Upgrade ? 61 Day Test Drive Packaged Offering
Develop: Development, Test, and/or Quality Assurance Environments
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Rational / Legacy / ILE / ADTS Compilers Available
VTL: Offsite Vaulting of Real Time Data iSeries data (Remote Virtual Tape)
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It?s ?Not Your Fathers? tape drive ? it?s a second (remote) i5!
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Optional Recovery to Hosted iSeries Environment for DR
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Highly Affordable / Enhanced RPO AND RTO
Monitor: Comprehensive Hardware and Operational Monitoring Service
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Focus Your Staff on the business ? we?ll support the technology
All of the above offerings will be tailored to your specific needs:
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Hardware Configurations: CPW / DASD / Arms / Memory / Tape
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Optional ?OnDemand? Resources Available
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i5OS Versions V5R3, V5R4, V5R4m5, and i6.1 Supported
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Minimal contract terms are provided in 90 day increments
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On Premise and/or Hosted Delivery Options Available
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Surrounding Open Systems / Cross Platform Supported