Ensuring your IT systems don't let you down
In today's age of 24/7 business, availability is becoming an issue of increasing importance.
Customers, employees, suppliers and business partners now expect access to your information at any time, from anywhere. Having your systems available 24 hours a day without interruption can be a major competitive advantage for some and a standard operating requirement for others.
There are numerous reasons why system uptime is so crucial to businesses, including employee productivity, customer service and reputation, regulatory pressures and unforeseen disasters.
System i and i5/OS have always had a well-justified reputation of being a system offering high levels of availability. But over the years IBM has added menu new hardware and software capabilities that further enhance the availability of the system.
Acquired by IBM in 2007, DataMirror iCluster delivers a complete high availability and disaster recovery solution for business applications running in the IBM System i environment. iCluster gives organisations continuous availability of mission-critical business applications, provides disaster avoidance and protection, and monitors, notifies and self-corrects any replication issues. The backup system is available during the mirroring process to run read-only business applications, backups or queries, improving return on investment and increasing the performance and response times of business applications. iCluster’s MatchMerge technology and advanced synch check capabilities help to ensure data consistency and integrity.
The Business Benefits - iCluster offers you.....
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Reliability – changes made to physical files are synchronised with object transactions to ensure data integrity.
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Ease of management – built-in self-healing, including automatic re-synchronisation of out-of-sync objects and e-mail or message queue notification of critical messages, reduces the amount of time spent reacting to problems.
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Scalability – iCluster can scale to a large number of applications, large data volumes and a large number of users.
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Flexibility – iCluster can support either remote or local journaling so customers can choose based on their unique requirements.
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Extensive support – iCluster is backed by a world-class professional services team and 24/7 customer support.
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Whitepaper: High Availability Solutions for IBM System i
Whitepaper: Evaluating High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions
High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions for IBM System i
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