From May 6-8, we had the pleasure of participating in the international conference “IBM 4th WW Resiliency Conference” for IBM Z and LinuxOne. After three editions in Amsterdam, this time we met in beautiful Rome.
The conference motto – “From Business Continuity to Operational Resilience” – perfectly captures the topics discussed, focusing on demonstrating how technology dedicated to the flagship IBM Mainframe platform helps minimize the risk of processing disruption or even data loss, especially given the currently growing challenges related to digital security.
The organizers brilliantly balanced technology presentations, led by leading IBM experts in this field, with the exchange of experiences presented during client panels and roundtable discussions.
The discussions highlighted the current market trend in many countries – the deployment of additional data centers within enterprises. Contemporary geopolitical and climatic threats and the intensification of cyberattacks require an operating model based not on two data centers as in the past, but on at least three, and often even four, ideally with the ability to dynamically transfer processing between them, not only after a disaster but also proactively before it occurs, thanks to anomaly monitoring and advanced forecasting based on AI models.
The next key topic is how to minimize data loss when a cyberattack or other data disintegration cannot be prevented. From conversations with clients, especially those representing large banks, we observed a significant increase in projects based on GDPS and CyberVault technology compared to previous editions. Many clients have increased the number of backups they perform (from an average of once a day to at least two or four). It’s also clear that clients are currently implementing increasingly advanced reliability tests of stored backups to ensure the realistic possibility of system or data recovery.
Next year, we’ll meet at the next edition in London, and this year in Amsterdam to delve deeper into security topics at the fall conference – the “WW Security Conference for IBM Z and LinuxOne.” The organizers have already invited participants to both, and I highly recommend them. Those interested in specific topics are encouraged to contact us; We’d be happy to share our experiences in more detail.
Key topics on this year’s agenda:
• IBM Z, LinuxONE, storage and data storage resilience
• Business continuity with GDPS and CyberVault
• Resilience of z/OS and IBM Z Middleware
• DORA, NIS2, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act
• AI-based threat detection
• The path to quantum security
