DataMirror Offers Competitive Upgrade Promotion for IBM iSeries High Availability and Resiliency.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2001 DataMirror Corporation (Nasdaq: DMCX; 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) ), a leading provider of integration and resiliency solutions and an 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) 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. business partner, today announced a competitive upgrade promotion for its iCluster(TM) and High Availability Suite(TM) software for IBM iSeries and AS/400s. The competitive upgrade promotion is the first in a series of fourth-quarter promotions that provide added incentive for companies to purchase DataMirror software. Under the terms of this promotion, organizations that currently have a competing high-availability solution, such as Vision Solutions(R) Vision Suite(TM) or Lakeview Technology's MIMIX(R) Suite, will receive a discount of 50% if they purchase either a DataMirror High Availability Suite or iCluster license before December 31st, 2001. For customers who don't have a high-availability solution, DataMirror is offering a special 50% discount on the second iCluster or High Availability Suite license for backup iSeries or AS/400 systems. Both promotions are valid until December 31st, 2001. DataMirror's resiliency products provide customers with the Experience of Now. Mirroring data in real-time means that your people can have continuous access to the data they need to get their jobs done. Faster mirroring means better data protection, increased accuracy and less downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . Less downtime increases productivity and lowers costs. The outcome is an investment that quickly pays for itself and insures a company's most crucial assets-its data. "In these uncertain times, more and more companies are resolved to implement contingency plans A plan involving suitable backups, immediate actions and longer term measures for responding to computer emergencies such as attacks or accidental disasters. Contingency plans are part of business resumption planning. and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery," said Nigel Stokes, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DataMirror. "DataMirror resiliency software for both clustered and non-clustered IBM iSeries environments provides a proven solution for the availability of your vital business data and applications. High Availability and Resiliency are insurance investments, and DataMirror's customers can be confident that their software purchases are backed by a committed, financially stable, growing company with positive cash flow." Contacts and Ordering Information For more information on DataMirror's competitive upgrade promotion, please call a DataMirror sales representative at 800-362-5955. About iCluster and High Availability Suite iCluster software provides an easy 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 for configuring nodes in a cluster, mirroring data and other critical objects and monitoring the entire cluster from a single station. Users are able to define cluster groups, initiate cluster operations and set cluster security levels. iCluster supports IBM's ClusterProven(TM) standard for applications resiliency. iCluster can detect primary system failure and invoke real-time operational switching to maximize system uptime. The software features breakthrough XtremeCache(TM) technology that optimizes the flow of data into and out of a high-speed cache to help customers achieve zero latency (1) Having no delay between the time a request is initiated and the response is given. See latency. (2) (Zero Latency) Coined by the GartnerGroup, it is the immediate exchange of information across geographical, technical and organizational boundaries so that all for system backup and recovery. DataMirror iCluster is the only product that gives customers the higher productivity and lower costs of real-time IFS mirroring, fast XtremeCache technology and unequaled match/merge architecture. For non-clustered iSeries environments, DataMirror High Availability Suite delivers the highest performance and features that help companies maximize uptime and availability. With more than 1,000 licenses of DataMirror's High Availability Suite installed in customer sites worldwide, the software is used daily for mission critical, planned and unplanned role switching. About DataMirror Corporation DataMirror (Nasdaq: DMCX; TSE: DMC) delivers solutions that let customers integrate data across their enterprises. DataMirror's comprehensive family of products unlocks the experience of now(TM) by providing advanced real-time capture, transform and flow (CTF CTF Capture The Flag CTF Child Trust Fund (UK) CTF Canadian Tax Foundation CTF Canadian Taxpayers Federation (lobby group) CTF Canadian Television Fund CTF Canadian Teachers' Federation ) technology that gives customers the instant data access, integration and availability they demand today across all computers in their business. Over 1,500 companies use DataMirror to integrate their data. Real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. drives all business. DataMirror is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has offices worldwide. DataMirror has been ranked in the Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in 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. . For more information, call 1-800-362-5955 or visit the DataMirror web site at www.datamirror.com.
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