IxPropagator - A Cost Effective High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution

The recent trend toward cutting infrastructure costs and maximizing hardware utilization, combined with an increased emphasis on disaster recovery planning, has resulted in a growing market acceptance for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.

With IxPropagator, a true high availability and disaster recovery solution is available for companies with large Oracle transactional systems that require zero downtime. IxPropagator replicates data in real-time from one "primary" site to another "failover" or "secondary" site. Should your primary site have a failure, IxPropagator will then allow your application to failover to the secondary site without users experiencing any downtime.

The unique and flexible architecture of IxPropagator can enable companies to tailor the solution to their needs and achieve unparalleled replication performance with no data loss during unplanned outages. With IxPropagator, companies have a simple and reliable failover and fail-back process, minimum start-up and configuration expense, and minimum maintenance expense. Finally, IxPropagator can enable companies to improve their hardware utilization by off-loading resource-intensive processes such as reporting and warehouse feeds onto their secondary or failover sites.

There are several alternatives available for companies that need high availability of Oracle systems. However, IxPropagator offers some key advantages over the competition. These include:

• Provides three different replication architectures, to enable you to tailor the solution to meet the requirements of your application while at the same time providing maximum replication performance.
• Outperforms any other widely-available data replication solution.
• Simple installation and configuration results in significant cost savings associated with implementation
• Minimal maintenance and "babysitting" required results in significant cost savings in resources associated with maintaining the high availability solution.
• Instantaneous failover (no downtime associated with database startups). If your business loses money when systems are unavailable, IxPropagator can provide enormous value by maximizing your system availability.
• Simple and instantaneous fail-back procedure means you will not suffer from additional downtime when it is time to fail-back to your primary system after an outage.
• Potential for data loss is significantly lower with IxPropagator than with other alternatives due to our unique application architecture.
• Allows the failover site to be open and available for read-only access, which maximizes your hardware utilization, allowing you to minimize your hardware investment. An open and available failover site also allows you to offload resource-intensive reporting operations that often slow performance on your primary site.
• Performs exceptionally across great distances and low bandwidth networks. Often, a true disaster recovery solution requires that data be replicated across large geographic locations, which can degrade data transfer rates. With our unique application architecture, large volumes of data can be moved across the most bandwidth-challenged networks and enable near real-time synchronization between the two sites.

IxPropagator replicates data faster than any other available data replication solution for Oracle. Our unique, proprietary apply engine combined with our unique application architecture results in transaction rates faster than any other product available. Our speed advantage is even more pronounced in low-bandwidth environments across broad geographic areas. If a high volume application suffers from "falling behind", there is a real possibility of data loss if there is an unplanned outage. IxPropagator has proven reliability on multi-terabyte transactional systems. With IxPropagator, an application is never more than a few transactions behind.

IxPropagator offers a "hot" failover site for resource-intensive read-only processes. By off-loading processes such as enterprise reporting, ad-hoc querying and warehouse feeds, you can free up vital resources on your primary system and save yourself considerable hardware expense.

IxPropagator minimizes any chance of data loss in comparison to other available data replication solutions. Because IxPropagator minimizes the use of shared memory, there are fewer opportunities for data loss in the event of an unplanned outage.

IxPropagator failover and fail-back procedures are simple and reliable. IxPropagator has the easiest failover procedure available and can usually offer instantaneous and seamless failover. Because IxPropagator can replicate across different versions and patches of Unix and Oracle it also allows for less troublesome system upgrades.

IxPropagator is easier to install and configure than any other data replication solution for Oracle. This saves the customer upfront costs associated with getting started with data replication. IxPropagator can be installed and configured in just a few hours.