In June, Shield Advanced Solutions is heading to Europe! Shield, an IBM ISV (Independent Software Vendor), based in Canada for close to three decades, provides specialized monitoring and high availability solutions for the IBM i platform.
Are you heading to COMMON conferences? Visit our booth in the Expo and find out what we are about:
– I-UG – i-Power Conference 2026 – Milton Keynes, UK 2-3 June – Vendor Sponsor, Expo & Speaker
– COMMON Europe Congress 2026 – Lyon, France – 14-17 June – Gold Sponsor & Expo
Shield’s products don’t just monitor or protect your systems—they translate IBM i operations into business resilience:
• Reduce downtime and risk
• Improve operational visibility
• Simplify complex environments
• Enable confident, proactive IT management
Chris Hird, Director explains “With Shield Advanced Solution’s Monitoring and High Availability – we aren’t just providing tools—we’re delivering confidence. With HA4i ensuring availability and AAG providing deep visibility; organizations can move from reactive firefighting to proactive control of their IBM i environments. With added benefits which focus on simplifying complex IBM i environments while maximizing resilience, security, and operational efficiency.”
HA4i High Availability for IBM i is always on, always ready and allows your business to avoid downtime with real-time replication keeping your systems continuously protected.
AAG Nagios Monitoring plugin for IBM i transforms monitoring into actionable business intelligence. Full visibility across IBM i, HMC, VIOS (and expanding further), deep integration with Nagios XI for enterprise-wide monitoring, tracks performance, jobs, messages, and security audit events. Detects issues before users know they exist.
Complete your operational edge tool set with EM4i – Enterprise Message Monitoring – Never miss critical alerts again. Job tracking to know exactly what’s running, when, and why.
Shield is known for simple to maintain solutions plus excellent customer support – if you are heading to COMMON Europe or i-UG i-Power in the UK – seek us out to see our solutions in action.