At the moment, IBM is offering geographically dispersed resiliency, or GDR, for customers who want to automate recovery operations with PowerVM logical partitions within their own datacenters. Starting next year, says Sibley, IBM will extend this out to its own disaster recovery centers as well as to third party partners who provide such services. The GDR software works with AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Canonical Ubuntu Server guests, and in the first half of next year will support IBM i. EMC storage (well, Dell storage now) will be supported for this replication, but over time IBM will add support for its own disk arrays.