Vision Solutions Mimix 8.0 for IBM i

Vision Solutions, Inc. announced the release of MIMIX 8.0 for IBM i.

It provides end users and partners with simplified configuration, monitoring and management and strengthens and streamlines HA/DR protection and performance in traditional and cloud-based environments. It addresses the needs of today’s businesses for HA/DR protection that is easy for overburdened, understaffed IT teams to manage, scales to meet growing volumes of data, and provides the flexibility to operate on any IBM i hardware, storage or OS whether physical, virtual or cloud-hosted.

“The HA and DR needs of companies that depend upon IBM Power Systems are evolving at a remarkable pace. Tight budgets, skilled resource shortages, exploding data growth, and a strong demand for infrastructue flexibility and capital expense manaement are driving innovation,” said Alan Arnold, EVP and CTO, Vision Solutions. “We developed MIMIX 8.0 for IBM i with these challenges in mind. Significant ease-of-use features, including the new data protection reports, increased replication performance and our new metered usage program, meet the usability, flexibility and scalability needs of our customers and partners alike.”

All MIMIX branded products, including MIMIX Availability, MIMIX DR and MIMIX Move, are strengthened by this new release. The MIMIX Global companion product to MIMIX Availability that simplifies multi-node HA/DR management is also updated.

New features and functionality include:

On-demand data protection reports for increased visibility into protection status
Browser-based replication configuration with best practice-based wizards to include data in replication
Strengthened IFS replication
Substantial enhancements to replication performance and streamlined processing to keep pace with growing volumes of transactional data
New metered usage licensing option equips MSPs with DR-as-a-Service for customers on a pay-as-you-go basis
Support for the IBM i 7.2 OS on POWER8 hardware

MIMIX 8.0 user Peter Hubby, senior systems engineer at Cardinal Health, Inc., provider of products and services to the healthcare industry, remarked: “MIMIX 8.0 is packed with functionality. Cardinal Health has a very large integrated file system environment on six pairs of servers that replicate between data centers in Ohio and Illinois. MIMIX 8.0 efficiently handles our replication volume and is protecting our IFS data smoothly.”

With IBM’s April announcement of the POWER8 processor and October announcement of additional POWER8-based Power Systems servers, global businesses are now planning upgrades to new hardware and the IBM i 7.2 OS. MIMIX Move 8.0, a blended software and professional services offering from Vision Solutions, provides support for IBM i 7.2 to deliver near-zero, risk-free migration to new platforms – whether physical, virtual or in the cloud.