MIMIX Availability

MIMIX Availability for IBM i provides data availability at the expense of the high performance of replication of the made transactions in real time and supports of local and/or remote standby systems. The solution brings cluster technologies of high availability to IBM i to new level thanks to increase in speed of replication and audit of data, the improved algorithm of monitoring and recovery of systems and intellectual administration through additional opportunities of reports.

MIMIX Availability 8

Vision Solutions announced in November, 2014 a release of the solution MIMIX 8.0 for the IBM i system. Innovation provides to end users and partners of the company a possibility of the simplified configuration, control and management of a system and also increases and rationalizes protection and efficiency of high availability and disaster recovery in traditional and cloud environments.

The version of MIMIX Availability 8 meets requirements of the modern companies for which the protection with ensuring high availability and disaster recovery having such features as simplicity of management for the overloaded and incomplete IT departments, scalability according to the increasing amounts of data and flexibility for work with any equipment, storages or the IBM i operating systems in a physical, virtual or cloud environment is necessary.

"Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery becomes extremely important task for the companies which depend on the IBM Power Systems servers. The limitation of the budget, the shortage of skilled staff, improbable speed of increase in amounts of data and the high need for flexibility of infrastructure and abilities to manage a capital expenditure serve as an incentive for development of innovations, – Alan Arnold, the executive vice president and the technical director of the company of Vision Solutions comments. – We developed MIMIX 8.0 for IBM i taking into account all these calls. Simple components, including new reports on data protection in use, the increased performance of replication and our new program of accounting are designed to satisfy the needs of our clients and partners connected with convenience of work, flexibility and scalability".

The release of the version of MIMIX Availability 8 will allow to expand possibilities of all products of the MIMIX series, including the solutions MIMIX Availability, MIMIX DR and MIMIX Move. MIMIX Global, the program product partner of the solution MIMIX Availability simplifying management of high availability and disaster recovery in environments with several nodes is also updated. Some new features and opportunities:

• The reports on data protection created on demand and providing the additional information about a protection status
• Replication configuration based on the browser with the programs of setup using the most effective methods for adding of data in replication
• The improved replication of the integrated IFS file systems
• Substantial increase of efficiency of replication and the improved processing for ensuring compliance to the increasing volumes of transaction data
• New opportunities of licensing of accounting of use are allowed suppliers of managed services to offer the clients disaster recovery as service with consumption payment after delivery
• Support of the IBM i 7.2 operating system on servers with new architecture of IBM POWER8

After the IBM company announced release of the POWER8 processor in April and the additional Power Systems servers based on POWER8 in October, 2014, the companies began to plan transition to the new equipment and the IBM i 7.2 operating system. The solution MIMIX Move 8.0 is the combination of the software and professional services from Vision Solutions company providing a full support of the IBM i 7.2 system for transition to new platforms in a physical, virtual or cloud environment without risk and practically without idle times.

MIMIX Availability 7

The solution MIMIX Availability 7 provides high availability of the IBM i Power servers

New user interface

Easily configured new interface on the basis of the browser allows to exercise monitoring and control of several products. Constructed on standard architecture of the Portal Vision Solutions portal allows to provide by means of the selected user portlets the configured representation of MIMIX Availability 7 of the environment for monitoring, management and control.

Automated system of optimization

The optimized, productive system creates blocks from the effective, reliable environment of high availability. MIMIX Availability 7 now the only product which includes optimization of the IBM i system as the main part of what he offers.

The improved management of transactions

The base used for creation of new transactions of switching gives the chance to the client to switch between tasks to create and adjust procedures for other, important transactions. Users receive additional benefit from adjustment transactions, as a result of performance improvement and reliability.

MIMIX Availability 7.1

The new features provided to MIMIX 7.1:

• The increased performance of replication of data – considerably increases the speed of replication of data for all users of MIMIX, allowing to achieve really outstanding results in some environments.
• Prioritization of tasks of audit – allows administrators to configure the frequency of check of objects depending on the frequency of their change that increases the speed and efficiency of accomplishment of audit.
• Monitoring of data in a system – provides synchronization of data between the planned audit sessions. Administrators are notified at each unauthorized change in real time with detailing on users and perfect actions.
• Automatic recovery of data – allows to recover intelligently automatically data at their change to the planned audit session (according to the configured policy).
• The additional analysis and trend reports – determines the level of operational activity of users and its influence on data availability in a system.
• Advanced optimization of a system – analyzes, traces and optimizes the IBM i systems. New iOptimize (in the previous versions - MIMIX Director) received the improved algorithm of scanning, a metrics with a possibility of automatic reaction to their values, localizable status reports on the environment and the big list of other functions of optimization.

MIMIX Availability 7.1 will ensure a normal company performance in case of failures or accidents using standby system without data loss and with the minimum downtime. MIMIX will also help to avoid interruption of execution of operations in communication by planned works on system maintenance, such as daily backup, software updating and "cleaning" of data, thereby ensuring the round-the-clock smooth operation of crucial applications.

MIMIX DR

MIMIX DR is the solution for disaster recovery of data of small and medium business whose crucial applications work in the IBM i operating system. At the heart of the solution - heritage of the MIMIX technology providing available protection in real time and fast recovery of business processes.

The MIMIX DR technology performs replication of data in real time, protecting thus a system from loss of information and applications in an interval between daily processes of creation of the backup copy by a duplication method on the magnetic tape or the picture of files of a system. In case of unplanned failure MIMIX DR works as the "hot" auxiliary system ensuring smooth operation of business processes until the main system is recovered. Total time of recovery in this case takes at most several hours, but is not calculated in the days.

At the heart of MIMIX DR - more than 20 years of successful work of MIMIX Availability technology from Vision Solutions, the related product providing high data availability for small, medium-sized and large enterprises. MIMIX DR is a high-quality reliable protection whose cost is calculated taking into account budgets of the small and medium companies. The technology has the following properties:

• The simple interface on the basis of the browser;
• The full data protection and applications up to the accident moment providing permanent replication of data in real time;
• Reliable verification of the duplicated data and applications regarding their complete restorability;
• Possibility of use of the full copy of the system which is in a ready mode without long process of recovery;
• Flexible configuration: protection can be organized on site, far off or in a cloud.

MIMIX DR will be suitable for the small and medium enterprises whose crucial applications work in IBM i OS, irrespective of a field of activity of such companies. In addition to the traditional license MIMIX DR it is offered in the form of the partners of Vision Solutions company of services who are stored in a cloud or managed by network. MIMIX DR Recovery-as-a-Service is ideal option for the companies which have no second system of disaster recovery. This solution will be suitable also for the enterprises which do not have direct access to the place of the physical location of a system because of geographical remoteness which cannot provide protection of the server against power outage or natural cataclysms.