MIMIX® V4 Availability Management Overview

MIMIX Availability Management for AS/400 is a new standard in the industry providing leading edge technology and innovation in availability management. Included in MIMIX are significant advancements in Ease of Operations, Data Integrity, Performance and Flexibility.

E-business, ERP solutions, business intelligence, and virtual organizations have created a new requirement for organizations - keeping applications and data available for users around the clock. In today's business environment, this has become a necessity, not a luxury. System reliability is not enough, and managing planned and unplanned downtime has become a corporate directive and significant issue for IT departments.

MIMIX for AS/400 is an Availability Management Solution that enables organizations to provide consistent, predictable access to the applications and data their businesses require. Implementing MIMIX virtually eliminates downtime from planned events such as nightly backups, software or hardware upgrades, and database reorganizations, and from unplanned events such as server failure, fire, floods and power outages to provide your business with the power of information availability.

MIMIX Replicator for AS/400 creates and maintains one or more exact copies of a production AS/400 including applications, configurations, spooled files and databases. Changes are replicated in real-time from one AS/400 to one or more target AS/400s, so that a viable system with the most current information is always available when planned maintenance or unplanned outages bring down a production system. MIMIX Replicator also supports intra-system replication for testing, backups, or development purposes.

MIMIX Monitor for AS/400 provides the framework for continuously monitoring your AS/400 systems for specific events or conditions and responding to those conditions. In the event of an outage, MIMIX Replicator in conjunction with MIMIX Monitor can automatically switch users to the backup system for non-interrupted processing. MIMIX Monitor includes pre-packaged monitor programs for checking the power levels in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and TCP/IP address impersonation for increased availability, as well as the flexibility to monitor most items on the AS/400 on an interval basis, scheduled basis, or continuously. MIMIX Monitor makes the IT manager's job easier by centralizing these monitor functions.

MIMIX is the standard in the industry, providing leading-edge technology, innovation and unsurpassed quality in availability management. MIMIX delivers ease-of-operations, performance and flexibility that makes availability management practical for a wide range of applications and needs. Coupled with support for AS/400 LPAR, application specific support for SAP and MQSeries, and a worldwide service and support network, MIMIX is the confident choice for Availability Management.

In the fourth generation of its evolution, MIMIX has earned a reputation for high performance with minimal CPU overhead. ILE-C, OS/400 API, and MI (AS/400 Machine Interface) instructions allow top transmission speed when sending and receiving information.