This will be a very interesting project,producing a redbook covering a wide
spectrum of DR-related activities. I encourage any interested parties to
apply.

More details of the residency are at
http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/residents.nsf/c0d5c6f1588c774985256ad1005da419/a8deda655431d1ec85256b9e000de509?OpenDocument


Regards, Charlotte
Project Leader, Tape and Storage Management solutions, ITSO San Jose
email: lotti AT us.ibm DOT com ph: (408) 927-3641 fax: (408) 927-3616 t/l:
8-457-3641
http://ibm.com/redbooks
Residency Announcement:  TI-A212 Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli
Storage Management

Benefits to Resident:  The resident will test and document backup and bare
metal recovery techniques on various OS platforms and applications using
Tivoli Storage Management products (including DRM for the server). They
will also put system-specific DR into a wider perspective - as part of an
enterprise's overall business continuance plan.

This San Jose residency begins 24 Jun 2002, ends 02 Aug 2002 (6 weeks), and
requires 3 residents.

Nominations should be submitted online on the Web by 22 May 2002.  The
selection date is 24 May 2002.

The residency leader is Charlotte Brooks whose email address is
lotti AT us.ibm DOT com.

Note:  ITSO pays authorized travel and living expenses for all residents,
but does not compensate for the time or services of its residents.  For
IBMers, ITSO residency travel is pre-approved.



Description:  The redbook will describe how to protect computer systems
from disaster on various platforms (including Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris
and AIX, and certain key applications) using products from the Tivoli
Storage Management set. It will document appropriate backup strategies and
show how to test and perform a system (bare metal) recovery on each of the
considered operating systems. Disaster recovery in the business context
will also be discussed - ie the role of Tivoli Storage Manager in the
enterprise's overall business continuance strategy.

Objectives:  The redbook will help customers plan for disaster recovery by
showing how to protect and recover their critical business systems from a
complete failure.



To submit a nomination, you must use the online web nomination form:

Customers and business partners can go directly to this announcement and
its online nomination form using this link:
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=TI-A212

IBMers with access to the IBM Intranet can go directly to this announcement
and its online nomination form using this link:
http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=TI-A212

All residency information is available by clicking Residencies on the IBM
Redbooks Internet site at http://ibm.com/redbooks.  Employees of IBM will
prefer using the IBM Intranet site http://w3.itso.ibm.com.  The websites
fully describe the residency process and offer online nomination forms.