In last month’s Sirius Connect (Sirius Managed Services: Focus on Business, Let Us Manage Your IT Infrastructure, April 2011), we introduced you to the compelling benefits of choosing Sirius Managed Services to handle day-to-day administrative tasks related to your systems.

In addition to Managed Services offerings for most hardware platforms, including IBM Power Systems (running AIX and IBM i), Industry-Standard Servers (running Windows and Linux), and Cisco networks, Sirius also has dedicated resources to support our System z clients.

Our mainframe Managed Services solutions support z/OS and Parallel Sysplex on machines configured for less than 2000 MIPS. Sirius also offers database administration, management and technical support services for DB2, IMS and CICS, and an experienced DBA staff averaging more than 10 years of technical experience. The components of IBM’s Cloud Ready solutions include: • Enterprise Linux Server (z10, z196) Solution Edition for Enterprise Linux • IBM Systems Director and VMControl Solution Edition for Cloud Computing • zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager (zManager) • Tivoli Integrated Service Management (ISM) Access-control security features available include RACF and ACF2. As with our Managed Services offerings for other platforms, our System z Managed Services offer remote monitoring, operations administration either on-site or co-located, migration services, and service management. Services are provided and monitored 24x7x365 by highly specialized personnel at our Command Center in Omaha, NE.

For more information, visit the Sirius Managed Services page at www.siriuscom.com, or contact your Sirius client executive.