IBM AS/400 & iSeries Management — CloudFirst
Virtualisation, hosting, management and recovery for IBM i estates — a specialism most managed cloud providers quietly do not have, and the gap organisations usually discover during a recovery test rather than before it.
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Key Features
The workload nobody wants to touch
IBM i estates run core business systems in manufacturing, distribution, finance and healthcare, and they are frequently the oldest and least documented thing in the data centre. Most cloud providers exclude them, so they end up excluded from the modernisation programme and from the recovery plan at the same time.
Virtualisation and hosting, not just support
AS/400 virtualisation and management is a named capability rather than a best-endeavours arrangement — the platform hosts and runs these environments alongside the rest of the estate.
A recovery path that actually covers it
AS400 Recover exists as a distinct offering within the ransomware recovery practice. This matters because a recovery plan that covers everything except the system running order processing is not a recovery plan.
Reduces single-person risk
Many IBM i estates depend on one person who understands them and is approaching retirement. Bringing the platform under managed service is often as much about succession as about technology, and that is a legitimate reason to do it.
Same operating model as everything else
Once hosted, the IBM i environment sits under the same monitoring, patching, backup and reporting as the rest of the estate rather than being managed as an exception.
Technology refresh without a rewrite
Ageing hardware can be retired by moving the workload rather than by rewriting the application — usually the only affordable path for systems of this age.
Compliance coverage extends to it
Regulatory and compliance obligations do not exempt legacy platforms. Bringing IBM i into the managed environment brings it into the same compliance posture as everything else.
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