COMMON POWERUp 2026

In today’s ever-evolving IT landscape, ensuring continuous business operations requires a strategic approach to High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR). With a growing array of technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud, choosing the right solution can feel like navigating a maze. This session will guide you through the key considerations for building a resilient HA/DR strategy. We’ll explore the different types of outages and align them with the technologies designed to mitigate their impact. Whether you're planning for hardware failures, software issues, or full system outages, understanding your business requirements and protection goals is critical. Join us for a practical overview of HA/DR technologies including Db2 Mirror, Live Partition Mobility, Logical and Software-Based Replication, Full System Replication, and PowerHA. You’ll leave with a clearer roadmap to help you make informed decisions and confidently chart your HA/DR journey.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the importance of considering your recovery point objective and recovery time objective for different types of outages 2. Learn how different technologies can help achieve various RPO and RTO targets. 3. Learn how the technologies can be combined