• Reduce TCO of database disaster recovery - Sybase Mirror Activator cuts down on required network bandwidth of hardware-based storage database replication by as much as 50%
• Minimize business risk - Dramatically reduces failover time for ASE database applications, reducing business costs associated with loss of systems continuity
• Provide continuous data integrity - Guarantees the data integrity and protects against disk corruptions.
• Turn expensive idle hardware into a productive asset - Standby database systems can now be used for read-only operations, such as query and reporting, improving Return on Assets.

The importance of application availability has increased dramatically in recent years. For information-driven organizations, the negative economic consequences of even a few minutes of downtime can be enormous. And a growing number of organizations must also comply with increased government and industry regulations that require immediate access to business data. Compounding these pressures is an inescapable fact: Technology systems have outages, whether from planned maintenance or unplanned power outages. Every enterprise is vulnerable.

INTRODUCING SYBASE MIRROR ACTIVATOR
Sybase Mirror Activator, a business continuity solution for mission-critical applications, reduces the risks and costs associated with system outages. Sybase Mirror Activator works in conjunction with storage replication systems to replicate database transactions from a mirrored log to an available Sybase ASE Server or Oracle® database. Mirror Activator leverages the best attributes of disk mirroring and transactional replication; it provides a complete and more efficient solution for your Business Continuity Planning (BCP) requirements.

• Guarantees zero data loss and database integrity. Sybase Mirror Activator ensures zero data loss via synchronous replication along with transactional consistency via logical replication. It also provides an option without distance limitations via asynchronous replication.
• Improves total cost of ownership and ROI by utilizing secondary assets. Hardware that is normally dormant in a traditional redundant architecture is enabled for other applications such as reporting and decision support. Sybase Mirror Activator thereby increases the return on investment (ROI) of these assets.
• Minimizes business risk. Dramatically reduces failover time for database applications by managing a live standby database that is available within seconds, versus hours of time-to-recovery required by cold standby systems.