Tag: backup

A quick note to let you know that you can host your iSeries disaster recovery (DR) system at our premises. Success Story Recently a customer purchased a high availability solution from us for their IBM iSeries environment. This involved Maxava HA software licenses, installation and setup of the Maxava HA software and associated ongoing maintenance. [...]

In today’s world your data is your life Chances are every piece of data you might ever rely upon to make an important decision has been reduced to a digital format and resides somewhere on your computer or your company network. One wrong click, one nasty virus, one untimely power surge or unhappy employee and [...]

Softek Replicator – Helping to recover data more quickly with volume-level replication Softek™ Replicator software provides an efficient, reliable method to help ensure usable data recovery regardless of storage vendor or server platform. In doing so, it enables any data protection budget to stretch further. In addition to being essential for disaster recovery, Softek Replicator [...]

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack eliminates the need for traditional backup windows by continuously capturing data changes at the block level, with extremely low overhead on the systems it protects. Data protection and recovery with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Its flexible policy engine empowers administrators to make the best use of ICT resources, while providing [...]

Dear Margaret, I’m over the rellies! Don’t get me wrong, I love it when they visit but it is always nice to have our home back to ourselves! We had Auntie Martha, Uncle Conrad and their 3 children, 9, 5 and 2 stay with us for the last month. They came over from the motherland [...]

Magstar 3590 tape drives have been available from the secondhand market for a long time now. Most of you have left, or are about to leave, that technology behind. A lot of our customers are considering newer technologies of 3592 and LTO to replace their 3494 automated tape libraries. What are my non-LTO options? Computer [...]

Did you know that Computer Merchants is a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) partner with Sales and Technical certification? What does this mean for our customers – you? It means you get the right advice from Computer Merchants about how you can better manage your system backups and restores. How you can streamline your backup procedures [...]

“By 2011, some form of CDP will be deployed in 80% of the Fortune 2000.” – Gartner EchoStreamTM for AIX® is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the push of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, it enables you to recover data from any point in [...]

Data Protection and Recovery Has Never Been So Fast, Easy-and Affordable “99.999% uptime will no longer be a dream. EchoStream for AIX will get us there!” First Entertainment Credit Union EchoStreamTM for AIX® from Vision Solutions is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the [...]

Vision High Availability for AIX® – Automated, Nonstop Protection for your AIX Servers EchoStreamTM for AIX® is a true continuous data protection (CDP) solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the push of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, it enables you to recover data from any point in time, [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Cisco Specials” for more information on the following items. Cisco Specials C2811-VSEC/K9 2811 Voice Security Bundle, PVDM2-16, Adv IP Serv, 64F/256D $4,620 C2821-VSEC/K9 2821 Voice Security Bundle, PVDM2-32, [...]

If you are contemplating upgrading to HMC Code 7.3.3., here are a couple of tips that may assist you when you perform the install. After you have imported your system plan or created your LPAR’s, you may get this error when you open up a 5250 console session: HMC not configured for this LPAR and [...]

Whenever we mention Tivoli Software to many of our customers, they immediately think of TSM – Tivoli Storage Manager. It’s a product that is well respected for its features and its ability to manage complex backup and restore environments. But Tivoli is so much more than just management of storage. Tivoli is a suite of [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. Cisco 1812/K9 Dual Ethernet Security Router with ISDN S/T Backup $1,320 Cisco 1841 Modular Router w/2xFE, 2 WAN slots, [...]

Over the past 6 weeks we have created a storm in the market over EchoStream – a Continuous Data Protection for AIX systems – and EchoCluster, the complementary product for High Availability fail over. Both have been met with so much enthusiasm from the AIX community. It seems that both these types of products have [...]

Sure You Back Up Your Data! But how frequently? How much data would you lose in a disaster between backups? How quickly can you recover from a disaster? How long would you be without access to critical applications and data? Double-Take is a disaster recovery solution for the Intel world It captures byte-level changes as [...]

We have some very exciting news for our IBM System p customers! After a 12 month search, we’ve found a product that provides real time data replication for AIX. The product is called “EchoStream for AIX“. Even though it is new to Australia and New Zealand, EchoStream is already installed in many sites world-wide. EchoStream [...]

A common question asked by our customers is “do we rent equipment?” The answer is YES! We typically come across a demand for rentals in the following situations: 1 – Flexibility We currently have customers that are renting complete machines from us. Success Story One example is a customer whose business was expanding meaning their [...]

Strictly available until 28th February 2008 or while stocks last Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM 2U RACK SERVER IBM x3650 2U Quad Core [...]

Earlier this year, IBM debuted new LTO 4 hardware These units incorporate the latest generation of advanced Linear Tape-OpenTM (LTO) technology, and are suited for handling the backup, save and restore, and archival data storage needs of a wide range of small systems as single drives. Or when configured into libraries, LTO 4 can handle [...]

Success Story We recently had an email from a very happy customer who had bought a new IBM System i model 525 from us to replace his AS/400 model 720. Here’s an edit of what came through: Good afternoon Norm and Warwick, Well you have sold me a dud!!!!!! Now that I’ve got your attention… [...]

Maxava HA Data Stream is an entry level one-way data only replication engine Maxava HA Data Stream is a highly efficient data replication solution that ensures business critical data is backed up in real time and fully recoverable *noMAX sentry is a scalable High Availability solution that ensures you have the ability to keep your [...]

IBM introduced the new System i Model 570 POWER 6 Edition to the Australian market in mid September The 570 model will be the first in the System i family of servers to make use of new processing technology, using up to 16 POWER6 processors (running at 4.7GHZ) in each machine. The advantage of the [...]

At Computer Merchants, we are committed to ensuring that your installation is completed to your absolute satisfaction We will ensure that we provide every assistance to make sure you’re “completely happy with the end result” as our standard Plain English Sales Conditions state. Our systems have been developed over many years to make sure we avoid [...]

We thought we might tell you a little about today’s Customer Service Team… Kylie Kylie Mills joined our Customer Service team six and a half years ago as our receptionist. After moving from Reception, Kylie took on the Logistics role before moving up to her current role as Accounts. This means Kylie is a backup [...]

This year will see a range of new releases for *noMAX, the biggest step forward in the software for quite some time. It is the result of careful analysis of the DR/HA marketplace over the past two years and suggestions made from the existing customer base. The planning, coding and testing has taken the best [...]

Just like you, we rely on our IT systems to support our business objectives Without these systems we may as well turn off the lights and go home, as it is almost impossible for us to operate without them. In the mid 1990′s we decided that we needed to implement a Disaster Recovery plan. We [...]

One size fits all – yes, so long as you’re all the same size! Have you been caught before buying a product that has all the bells and whistles even though you only need some of the functions or features that it offers? Maybe you paid a premium price for the item because those functions [...]

What Is Orphan Data? (and why you need to know about it) Orphan data is the data that is created after your last back-up. If you experience an outage on your IBM iSeries system, then this data will be lost because it has not been backed up to tape. The questions you should now ask yourself [...]

When you purchase a second-hand IBM iSeries server from Computer Merchants, you can be confident that you receive it ready to turn on and start loading your data right away. The key steps we take when preparing an iSeries machine for you First of all the disks are initialized. Licensed Internal Codes (LIC’s) are loaded. OS/400 [...]

Many of you are now familiar with the first clause of our standard Plain English Sale Conditions To ENSURE YOU ARE HAPPY with the end result. Judging by the feedback we are receiving from customers who have purchased the new i5 Series machines, this certainly is being met. Here are a few brief customer comments on [...]

IBM iSeries Technical Update was held in Brisbane in mid November The two day technical training was packed with useful information and attending was certainly time well spent. With the ever increasing ability of the iSeries to support a large variety of operating systems (like Windows, Linux or AIX) running in partitions on the same [...]

Businesses around Australia and New Zealand depreciate their IT hardware at all sorts of different rates. Some can be over a few years and others up to 8 years plus. Very often, within a particular depreciation schedule there comes the need for extra disk, memory or processors. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to purchase brand new [...]