Planned outages are a reality for any IT systems. System and application upgrades, hardware maintenance and replacements are all necessary and valid reasons for downtime. But in this global, 24/7 world we live in, an outage even a planned one can be a very costly event. iCluster eliminates the need for downtime on IBM i systems, providing high availability by replicate critical business data to another logical partition (LPAR), or system without ever disrupting service.
Eliminate the need for outages
By replicating critical business data to another LPAR or system, you can switch users to your backup system or perform necessary tasks on your backup system. The result is you can almost completely eliminate the need for outages associated with these planned upgrades and maintenance.
Perform tasks during regular business hours and save
With Rocket iCluster giving you high availability at all times, you can perform tasks during normal business hours saving you the high cost of having IT personnel work in the middle of the night or on weekends.
Accurate testing of new platforms
Upgrades to new hardware platforms and OS levels are improved with iCluster by using the replication environment to test the new platform with live data. That means you can deploy hardware at a new iOS level, replicate the applications live and allow object conversion (if required) to occur on the fly.
Increase application reliability
Rocket iCluster greatly improves application 'saves' and 'backups' by enabling true end-of-day and end-of-month business conclusion backups. It also increases the reliability and accuracy of the backup by circumnavigating the lock condition on critical files common in active production environments.