Rocket icluster highavailabilitydisaster recovery hadr solutions help ensure uninterrupted operations for applications running on ibm i, and provide. In addition to investing in the icluster software to help boost its. Rocket has been a significant contributor to the db2 tools portfolio for over a decade, working closely with ibm and its partners and clients. Rocket icluster ha assist was designed specifically for the highavailability.
Our partnership spans multiple ibm brands, solutions, and platforms, including z systems and power systems. Help about wikipedia community portal recent changes contact page. Ibm i archives page 5 of 5 the rocket software blog. The icluster team will be joining rocket softwares global organization of more than 900 employees and become a new brand rocket icluster within the rocket storage, networks and compliance. Program support is provided under the software maintenance agreement or an ibm global.
We develop products and deliver services that drive even more successful outcomes for ibm customers around the globe. Systemperiod temporal tables were introduced in db2 for i in the ibm i v7r3 release. Rocket software buys icluster ha biz from ibm it jungle. Rocket icluster reduces downtime related to unexpected ibm i system interruptions, with realtime, faulttolerant, objectlevel replication.
Jan 09, 2012 the high availability software market in the ibm i space is getting off to an interesting start in 2012 now that rocket software has bought the icluster software business from ibm. Small to medium businesses that need an easytouse, softwarebased highavailability solution. Rocket icluster helps protect your critical business applications from outages, whether planned for backups, maintenance, or ptfs or unplanned. Rocket software and ibm i solution editions protect data and. Rocket software acquires icluster business from ibm. This technical refresh is available immediately for customer download and provides a number of new enhancements and product features that make the product even easier to administer. Tend to place people in training just for the sake of keeping people busy.
Ibm champions demonstrate expertise, extraordinary support and advocacy for ibm technology, communities and solutions. It is optimized for high transaction volume environments, and it can be scaled down to meet the needs of small to medium i5os business clients. Ibm i, rocket icluster and rocket icluster ha assist deliver speed, safety and. Whether youre just starting out with rocket icluster or need a refresher, our modularized training makes learning icluster quick and easy. Rocket software is a leading global developer of software products that help corporations, government agencies and other organizations reach their technology and business goals. Rocket software completes acquisition of ibm icluster. Eurotux professionals strengthen skills in rockets. Rocket icluster will become a new brand within rockets storage, networks and compliance business unit, and will expand on rockets breadth of solutions for ibm i. Technical support engineer tse will be part of a team of support engineers as part of a fastpaced support organization with the primary mission to provide world class support to rockets customers and partners. Mimix to rocket icluster migration dec 2011 dec 2011 mimix ha cluster migration to ibm icluster now rocket v7. Rocket software was founded in boston in 1990 with a focus on ibm db2 tools. Thousands of companies around the world depend on rocket to solve their most challenging business problems by helping them run their critical infrastructure, business processes, and data, as well as extending the value of these assets to take advantage of cloud and mobile computing, advanced analytics, and other future innovations. Rocket adds ibm i support to backup reporting tool it jungle.
Provide a wide range of best practice technical support for rocket icluster software product high availability and disaster recovery on an ibm iseries as400. Rocket icluster highavailabilitydisaster recovery hadr solutions help ensure uninterrupted operation for your ibm i applications, providing. Rocket software and ibm i solution editions protect data and complement powerha. Mark watts software engineer at rocket software arlington, texas 388 connections. Rocket modernization solutions help you update your ibm i application. You can leverage the deep technical skills of our labbased, software services. It introduces you to the eserver brand initiative clusterproven for iseries and explains how it applies to iseries customers and independent software vendors. Our solutions address the skills gap created by a retiring workforce by helping it take a more strategic role in improving user experiences, including overall employee productivity. Service for this product is currently being provided by rocket software. Rocket software is a large, global company and a longstanding enterprise software partner of ibms with an excellent track record of delivering value to clients. Rocket software is a trusted, strategic ibm partner, with a relationship that began over 25 years ago. Mark watts software engineer rocket software linkedin. The company has since expanded its offerings to include analytics, data, storage, applications, and networks software.
The companys 800 plus engineers develop and support products for the ibm ecosystem and. Carlos ijalba it systems director seera group spain. The deal was announced on january 4, but was actually closed by rocket software and ibm on december 31 for an undisclosed sum, and it puts icluster logical. Qmf is a powerful analytics platform that provides query, reporting, interactive dashboards, and more to. The company has more than 1200 employees, and is headquartered in waltham, massachusetts, usa. Jan 11, 2012 rocket software newton, ma, usa has announced that it has closed the acquisition of the icluster business from ibm armonk, ny, usa. Understanding ibm i options for high availability it jungle.
Rocket software newton, ma, usa has announced that it has closed the acquisition of the icluster business from ibm armonk, ny, usa. Rocket icluster is the ideal solution for a variety of clients. Rocket software announces the release of rocket icluster 7. These teams comprise the rocket technical support organization. Rocket s software runs on multiple platforms and operating systems, including mainframe, ibm zos, ibm i, unix, windows and other platforms and offers. Dec 14, 2016 the software also hooks into rocket icluster, the companys high availability software for ibm i, where it provides ataglance views of the health of icluster and the underlying servers. Rocket icluster and rocket icluster ha assist use the security and auditability features of the ibm i operating system. It also delivers a list of icluster node statuses, communicates the status of replication groups, and a history of the status of replication groups.
My answer to this question is usually, well, they are still widely used in almost every essential service across the world. Should you use logical replication software like mimix, or a hardwarebased solution like powerha. Aug 07, 2012 rocket software is now shipping version 7. This software utilized remote or local journaling mirror data objects and nondata objects to a ha backup system. It is optimized for high transaction volume environments, and it can be scaled down to meet the needs of small to medium ibm i business clients. The initial motivation for producing these papers was to accelerate the training of some entrylevel, and more specifically juniorlevel, db2 for zos systems programmers, systems administrators, and database administrators. The software also hooks into rocket icluster, the companys high availability software for ibm i, where it provides ataglance views of the health of icluster and the underlying servers. Rocket software hiring technical support engineer ii in. The technical support engineer ii assists rocket customers with questions and problems regarding the installation, setup, configuration and functionality of rocket software products. Powering businesses with a unique partnership with ibm. Datamirror corporation, founded in 1993, is a computer software company based in markham. Rocket develops products in such fields as analytics, networks, data, storage, and enterprise software.
Any downtime can lead to business disruptions, lost revenue and unhappy customers. Software services ibm software services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. Your ibm i system is the foundation of your business, and you need 247 availability. Ibms technical support resource for all ibm products and services including downloads, fixes, drivers, apars, product documentation, redbooks, whitepapers and technotes. Working with the other u2 support managers, i achieved a successful transfer of the support organisation from ibm to rocket. Rocket software is a privately held software development firm with business and technology partnerships with ibm, emc, and others. Ibm has transformed its delivery of hardware and software support services to help you achieve higher system availability. A key focus area for rocket software has been on developing open source drivers for its trusted tool for connection and application development. Celebrating our 2020 ibm champions the rocket software blog. The right storage, cloud, onprem, converged, make virtualized environments work. If your available youre put in it, no matter if its related to your job or has anything to do with the area of work your in. Ibm icluster for i software recarta dependable it support. Primary reponsibilities include continued world wide presales support for ibm icluster for i icluster to.
In addition to the icluster solution, broadly used by eurotux, rocket offers a wide range of software, with exclusive features, being a reference in the information technology it market. Verifying icluster communications the rocket software blog. Ibm has announced that it is expanding the scope of its partnership with rocket software, inc. Its a phrase i hear often when i talk with fellow coders who ask what kind of developing i did at rocket software. Rocket documentation powered by rocket nxt rocket software. The firms products are designed to run on mainframes, linuxunixwindows, ibm i, cloud, and hybridvirtualized systems. Ensure business continuity for ibm i rocket software. Rocket has business and technology partnerships with ibm, emc, fujitsu, hp enterprise. The new brandrocket iclusterwill be lodged within the rocket storage, networks and compliance group. Rocket software to expand development relationship for ibm. Rocket icluster highavailabilitydisaster recovery hadr solutions help ensure uninterrupted operation for your ibm i applications, providing continuous.
The person selected for this role will be expected to provide level 2 customer support primarily for rockets icluster products. Rocket software provides technical support through teams of specialists who are dedicated to the various rocket software brands. Rocket icluster highavailability disaster recovery hadr solutions help ensure uninterrupted operation for your ibm i applications, providing continuous access by monitoring, identifying and selfcorrecting replication problems. Ibm spin off icluster to rocket software tbk consult. Ibm datamirror icluster for the ibm system i platform. Jun 05, 2017 understanding ibm i options for high availability. Rocket icluster costeffective high availability and disaster recovery for ibm i. Clustering and iasps for higher availability on the ibm. Countdown to ibm think with ibm champion ezriel gross the. A consulting company that specializes in rocket software icluster high availability products, rocket icluster support, ibm infosphere data replication products and ibm iseries software support. Proactive, relentless, insightful, heterogeneous, automated. The delivery of the new release within six months of the products acquisition from ibm demonstrates the commitment that rocket software has made for the product line and the business, a rocket executive. A glimpse inside db2 for zos the rocket software blog. Electronic services is a webenabled solution that offers an exclusive, noadditionalcharge enhancement to the service and support available for ibm servers.
The icluster team will be joining rocket softwares global organization of more than 900 employees and become a new brand rocket icluster. Overall culture is nothing like a typical ibm location, in that people here dont collaborate, socialize, and overall are miserable. Rocket servergraph professional provides an indepth, holistic view of your entire backup environment, enabling you to maintain complete data integrity and business continuity. Application resiliency can be delivered by exploiting os400 cluster technology and cluster management services such as those provided by ibm high availability business partners.
Their work in the ibm sphere goes above and beyond, sharing knowledge, evangelizing solutions and extending the reach of ibm through innovation. Support for replicating db2 systemperiod temporal tables. The rocket commitment rocket values you as a customer and partner. With rocket highavailability disasterrecovery hadr solutions for ibm i, you can build and scale ibm ibased applications based to serve large user populationswith confidence. Rocket software has been on an acquisition tear in the ibm space for the past. Jonathan evans senior manager asia pacific technical. The icluster team will be joining rocket softwares global organization of more than 900 employees and become a new brand rocket icluster within the rocket storage, networks and compliance business. Rocket brings innovations to the ibm i as400 platform that let you take advantage of the latest technologies for web, mobile, analytics, and cloudextending and protecting your ibm i investment. The high availability software market in the ibm i space is getting off to an interesting start in 2012 now that rocket software has bought the icluster software business from ibm. Ibm s technical support resource for all ibm products and services including downloads, fixes, drivers, apars, product documentation, redbooks, whitepapers and technotes. Costeffective high availability and disaster recovery for ibm i.
The delivery of the new release within six months of the products acquisition from ibm demonstrates the commitment that rocket software has made for the product. In the event of an outage, you can bring a warm mirror of a clustered ibm i system into service within minutes. Accelerate your workloads and simplify administration, to gain efficiency. Rocket software acquires ibm icluster computer business. Rocket icluster icluster product provides high availability solutions for customers running iseries systems. A glimpse inside db2 for zos is a collection of midlevel technical papers. The introduction of the ibm z multifactor authentication v2. Rocket icluster highavailabilitydisaster recovery hadr solutions help ensure uninterrupted. Names of regionscountries where you support ha customers.
Rocket software to expand development relationship for ibm db2 tools on z systems rocket to accelerate innovation, development, support, and delivery of db2 tools. Rocket software completes acquisition of icluster business. Ibm united states software announcement 212229 ibm is a registered trademark of international business machines corporation 6 rocket icluster ha assist v7r1 with 1. Build zos recent comments joris cornette on ibm db2 cloning tool. Rocket software is a privately held software development firm founded in 1990. Each paper is written on a specific topic of db2 for zos, which. David norfolk, philip howard and fran howarth rocket software is a privatelyheld company and a leading global developer of software solutions, particularly in the mainframe space, that maximise the business value obtained from the investments in it made by large corporations and government agencies. Ibm and rocket software expand analytics partnership. Ibm datamirror icluster for the ibm system i platform helps. Vicki garner technical support engineer rocket software.
There are many options when it comes to high availability ha for ibm i. Rocket software this month issued a minor update to its icluster ibm i high availability ha software, which it bought from ibm last year icluster 7. The icluster team will be joining rocket softwares global organization of more than 900 employees and become a new brandrocket iclusterwithin the rocket storage, networks and compliance group. Nov 21, 2011 rocket software is a large, global company and a longstanding enterprise software partner of ibms with an excellent track record of delivering value to clients.
Rocket icluster technical specifications rocket software. Rocket software has closed the acquisition of the icluster business from ibm where icluster offers software for high availabilitydisaster recovery hadr for ibm i. This included preparing training on the new systems, arranging appropriate working spaces and guiding staff on the new company culture. If youre interested in rocket software solutions, and specifically in the icluster software, schedule a meeting with. The deal was announced on january 4, but was actually closed by rocket software and ibm on december 31 for an undisclosed sum, and it puts icluster logical replication software in the hands of a third party that.
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