IBM Sterling Global Mailbox
Achieve highly available, always-on file transfer operations
IBM Sterling Global Mailbox helps companies address demands for high availability operations and redundancy with a robust and reliable data storage solution available across geographically distributed locations. The solution supports active-active communications for disruption resiliency and disaster recovery in near real-time.
Global Mailbox is an optional component of its IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway solutions, and designed to work with IBM Sterling Control Center:
Companies looking to deploy IBM Sterling Global Mailbox can leverage the solution to:
- Provide a purpose-built, multi-data center mailbox architecture
- Deliver a geographically distributed mailbox capability
- Provide consistent views of files and documents across locations
- Eliminate the need for custom solutions and database replication
IBM Sterling Global Mailbox Capabilities
Key highlights
Enables always on operations
Enables high-availability of operations through geographical distribution of data centers and near real-time replication of data across those centers. The solution ensures highperformance with little or no downtime and near real time recovery. This, in turn, helps ensure compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) and that customer service and expectations are met.
Disaster resiliency and recovery
Ensures greater resiliency to disruptions and highly-efficient recovery in the event of a disruption or disaster with a purpose-built, multi-data center mailbox architecture. Enables companies to deploy an active-active or active-passive recovery. Ensures disaster recovery.
Configurable geographic distribution
Flexible and configurable geographic distribution options to meet performance and customer-service
requirements.
Easy to use and intuitive UI
Intuitive UI makes managing global mailboxes, data replication and recovery easy for IT and operations users — ensuring high-availability and near real-time recovery.
The diagram shows the various components of Global Mailbox and the configuration required for minimum high availability in a two data center system.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Global Mailbox
Ensures high-availability operations
Provides capabilities to maintain high-availability and efficient disaster resilience and recovery, including
active-active communications.
Real-time data replication
Real-time data replication eliminating the need for backup databases or custom-built approaches to
disaster recovery.
Configurable geographic distribution
Flexible and configurable geographic distribution options to meet performance and customer-service level
requirements.
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