DataMirror Adds Value to IBM's High Availability Offer.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 DataMirror Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :DMC DMC Devil May Cry (video game) DMC Detroit Medical Center DMC Darryl McDaniels (rapper) DMC Destination Management Company DMC Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX) .) Purchase or Upgrade Target AS/400, Be Eligible for Special DataMirror Discounts DataMirror Corporation (TSE:DMC.), a leading provider of enterprise-wide data replication, replenishment replenishment the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography. and resiliency software, today announced a special pricing promotion on its award-winning High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Suite software for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 in conjunction with IBM's High Availability Rebate Promotion made known today. Under the terms of IBM's rebate promotion, customers purchasing a new target AS/400 machine are eligible for a 15% hardware discount. Customers upgrading their target AS/400 machines are eligible for a 10% hardware discount. Additionally, AS/400 software subscriptions purchased from IBM will be discounted 50%. As an IBM High Availability Business Partner, DataMirror is further extending the value of IBM's High Availability Offer. DataMirror will offer customers a special 50% discount on an iCluster or High Availability Suite software license for a new target AS/400 system, and a special 25% discount on an iCluster or High Availability Suite license for an upgrade target AS/400 system. Pricing and Terms This promotion provides an added incentive for companies wishing to implement high availability solutions for protection from system outages and the improvement of systems management capabilities. Only customers who are eligible to receive the IBM hardware and software discounts under IBM's High Availability Offer will be eligible to receive discounts on DataMirror iCluster or High Availability Suite software. The date of installation must be no later than December 31st, 2000. DataMirror's pricing is custom quoted based on computing environment. For complete terms and conditions for the IBM High Availability Offer, please see IBM's marketing announcements in the news section of IBM's AS/400 web site at http://www.as400.ibm.com/. Contacts and Ordering Information For more information on the IBM High Availability Offer, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL. For information on DataMirror's software pricing program offered in conjunction with IBM's High Availability Offer, please call DataMirror Corporation at 1 (800) 362-5955 or email a sales representative at sales@datamirror.com. About DataMirror iCluster and High Availability Suite DataMirror iCluster software enables companies to realize the benefits of AS/400 clustering. iCluster includes an intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to to define nodes in a cluster, determine what data and other critical objects are mirrored to specific nodes and monitor the entire cluster from a single station. It also handles the data and object mirroring requirements of clustered high availability environments. iCluster enables companies to approach 99.999% business continuity by providing data resiliency and applications resiliency in conjunction with the IBM ClusterProven(TM) applications standard. DataMirror High Availability Suite is a single integrated product for continuous business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets in AS/400 environments. It captures AS/400 objects On most other platforms everything is a file. On the AS/400 everything is an object. This seems to be the same as object-oriented programming, but with the AS/400 it's different. and database transactions from primary systems and mirrors them in real-time to one or more recovery AS/400s. High Availability Suite can detect primary system failure and invoke To activate a program, routine, function or process. operational switching to enable continuous availability. It features an advanced match-merge architecture that enables real-time auto-registration. Data and object transaction streams are matched and merged in real-time before being applied to the recovery system database. Match-merge, along with sync check, commitment control and other integrity checks, are designed to provide the highest levels of data integrity. Available Via the Internet DataMirror continues to lead the way in business-to-business e-commerce for business data integration and resiliency software. Fully functional trial versions of iCluster and High Availability Suite are available for download via the Internet by visiting http://www.datamirror.com/trialsoftware/index.html. For more information, please contact a DataMirror representative at 1 (800) 362-5955. About DataMirror Corporation DataMirror's solutions provide the underlying infrastructure required to integrate e-Business applications with operational and legacy systems. DataMirror software gives companies the ability to ensure that data is distributed, available, effectively managed and accessible anywhere in the world in real-time. DataMirror replication, replenishment and resiliency software integrates data among multiple databases including DB2, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , Oracle and Sybase across OS/390, OS/400, NUMA-Q, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT/2000. DataMirror clustering and high availability software enables continuous business operations in AS/400 environments. More than 1,100 customers have chosen DataMirror software to integrate their business critical data and applications. Founded in 1993, DataMirror is a worldwide company with distribution in more than 30 countries. DataMirror has corporate headquarters in Toronto, Canada and offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. DataMirror is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol: DMC). In PROFIT Magazine's 12th annual survey of the fastest growing companies in Canada, DataMirror's 35,946% growth over the past 5 years earned DataMirror the distinction of being the fastest growing software company in Canada and the third fastest growing company across all industries. DataMirror's growth makes it the fastest growing software company in the 12 year history of the PROFIT 100. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.datamirror.com. Copyright 2000 DataMirror Corporation. All rights reserved. DataMirror, High Availability Suite, and iCluster are trademarks of DataMirror Corporation. ClusterProven is a trademark of IBM Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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