IBM® GDPS® is a family of disaster recovery and resiliency software for IBM Z®. It manages the storage subsystem and remote copy configuration across heterogeneous platforms, automates IBM Parallel Sysplex® operational tasks and performs failure recovery from a single point of control.

To ensure IT resiliency, you need to recover rapidly from any outages with no or minimal impact. To help achieve this, IBM offers GDPS, a collection of offerings that uses clustering, server management, storage replication and automation to minimize downtime of the IBM Z platform.

Features

• **Flexible architecture: **Use synchronous replication, asynchronous replication or a combination of both to address your business needs.
• **Easy automation: **Remove error-prone manual processes by automating operational tasks with simple, yet powerful, orchestration.
• **Resiliency monitoring: **Monitor your mainframe resiliency posture in real-time from a single point of control to detect any deviations.
• **Logical Corruption Protection: **Create secured, tamper-proof backups stored in a security-rich, isolated environment to enable automated recovery from cyberattacks or data breaches.
• **Multiple active data centers: **Support for multiple, geographically dispersed, active data centers in an "active-active" configuration with workload balancing between sites.
• **Comprehensive platform coverage: **Support for the full IBM Z platform, including z/OS®, Linux® on Z, z/VM®, KVM and guest virtual machines.

Benefits

• **Achieve continuous availability: **Maintain the availability of your applications by masking disk outages caused by disk maintenance or failures.
• **Achieve disaster recovery: **Enable zero or minimal data loss in the event of a disaster with continuous 24x7 data replication.
• **Rapidly recover systems and data: **During an outage, seamlessly move production to an alternative site with minimal human intervention.
• **Become cyber resilient: **Automatically identify and recover your business in the event of a data breach or cyberattack.
• **Enable global coverage: **Situate your data centers anywhere in the world to avoid reliance on a single location.
• **Meet regulatory compliance: **Easily demonstrate regulatory compliance by moving production between data centers.