Vision Solutions Research Report Sample

The data set used for this report includes the results of over a dozen surveys, conducted between July 2007 and July 2008. In total, responses were received from over 2,000 technical professionals and executives involved in the management of IBM i and AIX environments.

Throughout this report, we will identify responses as pertaining to users of the IBM i and AIX operating systems. As a practical matter, under these “umbrella” identifiers, we include all prior variants of the IBM i (i5/OS, OS/400) and do not differentiate between, for example, AIX running on a legacy System i or System p server.

To begin our study, we asked four questions about our survey participants’ perceptions of their organizations’ current readiness to handle business interruptions (planned and unplanned downtime events).