DataMirror iCluster delivers a complete high availability and disaster recovery solution for business applications running in the IBM System i environment. iCluster gives organizations 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:

• Reliable – changes made to physical files are synchronized with object transactions to ensure data integrity.
• Easy to manage – built-in self-healing, including automatic re-synchronization of out-of-sync objects and e-mail or message queue notification of critical messages, reduces the amount of time spent reacting to problems.
• Scalable – iCluster can scale to a large number of applications, large data volumes and a large number of users.
• Flexible – iCluster can support either remote or local journaling so customers can choose based on their unique requirements.
• Extensive support – iCluster is backed by a world-class professional services team and 24/7 customer support.

• Mirror critical DB2 application data and objects to one or more secondary systems
• Conduct high-speed operational switching and uninterrupted data access between geographically distant locations during planned and unplanned downtime
• Distribute processing load and network use across multiple systems

• Reduce downtime costs
• Improve system recovery time by more than 80%
• Gain back CPU usage on production systems