DataMirror Launches New Transformation Server Version 4.6
for iSeries and AS/400 Customers
TORONTO, CANADA--
Breakthrough Resiliency Features Include Advanced Heartbeat
Monitoring and Alarms and Alerts
DataMirror Corporation (TSE: DMC), a leading provider of
e-Business data integration and resiliency solutions, today
announced an enhanced version of its Transformation Server data
integration software for iSeries and AS/400 based organizations.
Transformation Server Version 4.6 includes breakthrough features
and functionality in the areas of data resiliency and ease-of-use.
These new features include alarms and alerts, heartbeat
monitoring, auto-discovery and a significantly enhanced version of
the product's Enterprise Administrator graphical user interface.
All new feature enhancements will be rolled out across all
Transformation Server supported platforms including UNIX, Linux,
Microsoft Windows NT/2000 and IBM OS/390.
Alerts and Alarms
This new automated error notification and handling feature can
notify administrators automatically via e-mail, wireless devices
or messaging to an operator's console should selected issues
arise. Support for Alarms and Alerts enables users to set up
automatic actions based on conditional events. Support for Alarms
and Alerts can save your organization time and resources while
improving quality of service and overall data resiliency by
enabling you to troubleshoot replication issues immediately before
they can impact business operations.
Advanced HeartBeat Monitoring
With Transformation Server's advanced process management
capability, users have the assurance that if one component of the
replication infrastructure halts, the entire replication process
will shut down automatically within a user-defined time frame.
This heartbeat monitoring feature maximizes data integrity by
empowering administrators to automatically start a controlled
shutdown of all functions. When combined with Alarms and Alerts,
heartbeat monitoring ensures that administrators are aware of any
issues and can take immediate action such as restarting
replication. Other replication solutions can take up to 30 minutes
following a component stoppage before they terminate, and may even
require users to manually terminate some processes before they can
re-start replication.
Auto Discovery
Transformation Server now streamlines configuration and
administration by enabling automatic identification of all
publisher or subscriber agents running within the replication
network. This feature eliminates redundant tasks in configuring
multiple publisher and subscriber systems in a replication network
by intelligently querying agents about their capabilities and
characteristics. Auto Discovery provides out-of-the-box
configuration for complex replication networks comprising multiple
publisher and subscriber servers. It enhances ease-of-use and
lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) for the solution by ensuring
that users do not have to manually recognize replication agents.
"Today Transformation Server's real-time data integration
technology supports key customer initiatives including e-Business,
business intelligence, and customer relationship management," said
Nigel Stokes, Chairman, President and CEO of DataMirror
Corporation. "As Transformation Server becomes an integral
component of our customers' data infrastructure, they need to be
able to continuously monitor and manage data replication and act
quickly if anything goes wrong. These enhancements to
Transformation Server Version 4.6, including Alarms and Alerts and
Heartbeat Monitoring, are designed specifically to address the
growing need across all industries for 24/7 data integration and
resiliency."
About Transformation Server
DataMirror's award-winning Transformation Server software is
flexible business data integration software that simplifies the
process of working in a heterogeneous world. It lets users easily
and seamlessly integrate and synchronize data in real-time among
mixed system environments. Because Transformation Server is easy
to implement and requires no programming changes to applications
and databases, customers can realize a rapid return on their
software investment. Transformation Server's real-time,
bi-directional replication capabilities make it ideal for a range
of applications including e-Business, business intelligence, and a
host of other distributed data applications. Transformation Server
was recently selected by IBM for membership in the B2B Extreme
Team program, a group of applications that allow businesses to
extend the value of their core applications to the web and improve
internal and external communications throughout the supply chain.
Available via the Internet
Fully functional versions of DataMirror software are available for
download via the Internet by visiting
www.datamirror.com/trialsoftware. For more information and to
receive product literature, please contact a DataMirror
representative at 1-800-362-5955.
About DataMirror Corporation
DataMirror (TSE: DMC) delivers solutions that let customers
integrate their data for competitive insight and e-Business
resiliency. DataMirror's comprehensive family of products includes
advanced real-time capture, transform and flow technology, that
gives customers the instant access, integration and availability
they demand today, across all computers in their business.
Over 1,300 customers use DataMirror to integrate their data.
Real-time data drives all business. DataMirror is headquartered in
Toronto, Canada, and has offices worldwide. DataMirror has been
recognized by PROFIT Magazine as the fastest growing software
company in Canada over the past five years. For more information,
call 1-800-362-5955 or visit the DataMirror web site at
www.datamirror.com. |
