IBM Power, especially IBM i, environments are known for reliability. Rock-solid. Stable. Secure.

But reliability isn’t the same as resilience and the difference has never mattered more.

The threat landscape facing on-premises IBM Power environments has fundamentally shifted. Ransomware and cyber-attacks increasingly target backup infrastructure first, precisely because attackers know that’s where recovery depends. Insider threats, whether malicious or accidental, require protection strategies that assume the internal network itself may be compromised. Meanwhile, compliance mandates around data retention, immutability, and offsite storage are tightening across virtually every regulated industry, and the skilled staff needed to manage increasingly complex protection strategies are harder to find and harder to keep.

In this session, we’ll help you think through the right questions to ask about your current IBM i data protection strategy:

• Is your backup data truly isolated from a ransomware event, or could an attacker reach it through your network?
• Does your offsite strategy meet today’s compliance requirements for immutability and retention and…can you prove it?
• If a key team member left tomorrow, how dependent is your recovery capability on their institutional knowledge?
• What would a real recovery event actually cost you in time, in labor, in business impact?
• What should a modern offsite protection model actually look like for an IBM Power shop that isn’t ready (or willing) to move workloads to the cloud?

If you’re responsible for IBM i data protection and want a clearer framework for evaluating where your gaps are and what to look for in addressing them, this session is worth your hour.