What is it?
The MAPSYS Continuity MAP is a professional consulting service designed to assist you identifying and providing cost for your Organization’s System Continuity needs.
Globalization of business, server consolidation and Web based computing are driving increased requirements for servers to be available nearly 24 by 7 for business transaction processing or Web serving. Even in businesses that do not require 24 by 7 operations are increasingly concerned about their ability to quickly recover in the face of a hardware failure or disaster. MAPSYS can help with documenting your Continuity requirements and preferred solution alternatives.
Through interviews with your staff, Mapsys can assist you in creating a document that identifies your X and iSeries availability goals, alternative approaches to address them, and the cost of your preferred solution alternative.
Scope of Work
Collect information through using the Continuity worksheet
Define alternative approaches with advantages / disadvantages of each
Per Client input, choose a preferred continuity approach
Prepare Report including: Preferred continuity approach, why the approach is preferred, Hardware and software requirements to implement the preferred solution.
Customer will be responsible for:
Participation in up to 2 interviews to define continuity requirements
Collection of information (System Configuration information, performance data, software environment, ptf levels, network configuration, etc) in the Workbook provided by MAPSYS
Participate in Presentation Meeting
Final decision on Continuity Initiatives
Schedule for Road Map:
Kick off and Conduct initial interview, 2 hrs (CIO, designated staff)
Collect Collaboration Worksheet info, 2 hr s (CIO, designate staff)
First draft of Report, MAPSYS only
Review Roadmap with Client, 2 hrs (CIO, designated staff)
Final draft of Road Map, MAPSYS only
Presentation, 2 hrs (CIO, designated staff)
Initiative implementation Meeting, 2 hrs (CIO, designated staff) |