SharePlex®: Eliminates Downtime During Migrations

Although they reap long-term business benefits, migrations are a major availability challenge that companies face today. Data center consolidation, end of life technology and server consolidation are just a few of the reasons why migrations have become a major availability issue.

Whether your company has participated in a merger or acquisition and is experiencing a related data center consolidation, considering a

change in hardware platforms, or about to a phase out of a component of current technology, SharePlex® can help reduce downtime.

SharePlex will allow business to continue while the activities occur. The original system will function as normal but SharePlex will capture and queue all transactions that occur during the migration. When the migration activity is complete, this backlog is applied to the migrated system and brought in sync. Now with a copy of the data present in both the pre and post migrated systems, activity stops very briefly to switch users from one system to another. SharePlex works very well whether maintaining a copy a current copy of data and file systems locally or over wide area networks. Furthermore, SharePlex can replicate in completely heterogeneous environments (Sun, HP, Compaq, IBM & NT/2000 as well as Oracle from 8i to 10g), providing you with an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility that you can exercise when selecting your hardware, consolidating your data, or merging companies with different platforms.

• Works in completely heterogeneous environments
  
• Manages local or WAN migrations
  
• Handles consolidations of many older or legacy servers into a single power server
  

This migration technology not only reduces downtime in a change of server technology but also with disk subsystems.