*  Remote journaling. Built natively on this powerful IBM OS400 technology to ensure highest replication efficiency and AS400 mirroring
  * Autonomic functions and easy-to-use OS400 monitoring mean less time to manage (15-20 minutes a day vs. 20-40 hours a week for many iSeries Disaster Recovery solutions)
  * Very robust, scalable iSeries Disaster Recovery, yet costs significantly less than other full-feature iSeries High Availability products
  * Mirrors all system-critical non-DB objects (in addition to DB objects) including data areas, data queues, user profiles, spool files, triggers, constraints, and more
  * Reliable role-swap/failover(switchover) features. Fully automated, intuitive, simple-to-use, and very reliable
  * Comprehensive, efficient audit processes--both at record and object level
  * Fast, easy installation. Installed with AS400 mirroring started in a few hours
  * Very scalable. Automation and intelligent design allow the product to adapt to any size or type of environment
  * Robust IFS replication capabilities that accommodate LOB and high-transaction IFS environments.

The Power of iSeries Remote Journaling
From the very beginning, IBM's remote journaling technology has been a foundation of Echo2's iSeries High Availability. Remote journaling is recognized by IBM as an extremely fast, reliable mechanism for moving data-change information to a secondary environment. In iSeries Disaster Recovery products where remote journaling is not used, up to 10% additional processor overhead will occur on the production system, which can bog down your iSeries replication not to mention your business applications. The efficiency of remote journaling helps ensure that critical transaction information is always safely transmitted to the AS400 backup machine.

iTera Echo2 iSeries High Availability Edition
Proven to be the most efficient, most reliable iSeries replication engine, architecture for iTera Echo2 was built from the start using IBM's remote journaling technology. This eliminates user/log spaces, vulnerabilities, and extra CPU cycles. Native remote journaling eliminates the need for a multi-thread data apply process. With iTera Echo2, an extremely efficient process harvests data from journal receivers and applies it to objects.

Today, iTera Echo2 is taking object self-healing to a whole new level with its breakthrough Concurrent Audit Concurrent Heal iTera Echo2 (CACHe2) technology. This remarkable patent-pending process discovers and corrects data integrity problems in real-time at the record-level. This eliminates the need to resynchronize entire objects when an out-of-synchronization condition is detected, which significantly speeds the correction of data integrity problems and reduces bandwidth traffic between mirrored environments as well as disk I/O. Automatic record-level monitoring and healing is yet another example of iTera leading the way in HA innovation and reliability.

Extensive autonomic functions mean less time to manage
     -  Autonomic processes make iTera Echo2 easy and fast to manage - typically 15 to 20 minutes per day 
     -  Exclusive CACHe2 technology automatically discovers out of sync objects and "heals" them at the record level. 
     -  Journalling components are automatically monitored and recreated when needed 
     -  Self-managing functions ensure smooth switchovers and allow iTera Echo2 to be quickly installed with users trained in days, not weeks

Reliably mirrors all system-critical objects
     -  Programs, data areas, data queues, IFS replication, user profiles, device configurations, spool files, triggers, constraints, WebSphere MQ, and more are replicated in real-time

Reliable, simple-to-use switchover and failover
     -  Since objects stay in sync, and latency is rare, switchover/failover is more reliable 
     -  switchover process is automated, ensuring a faster, less error-prone process

Scalable
     -  iTera Echo2 scales easily to any size and type of replication environment 
     -  Individual features is easily enabled/disabled

Fast, easy installation
     -  iTera Echo2 is installed and configured - with mirroring started - in a few hours 
     -  When installed on the production system, iTera Echo2 automatically installs on the backup
     -  No need to save/restore objects - most mirrored objects sync quickly via network

Robust IFS replication capabilities
     -  Echo2 replicates IFS both on an object and a record level
     -  Integrated, simple-to-use IFS auditing and monitoring functions
     -  Efficiently replicates large IFS and DLO objects, as well as high transaction volumes

iTera Echo2 iSeries High Availability - New Features
Echo2 is the most advanced, reliable, and automated high availability solution in the world. Here are just some of its latest state-of-the art features:

     -  CACHe² Technology: “Concurrent Audit Concurrent Heal” Technology ensures data integrity problems are automatically discovered and corrected in real-time and at the record level (rather than hours later during a day-end auditing process).
     -  CRC Audit: This process checks every record in the selected files – without sending duplicate records – resulting in performance enhancement. The CRC Audit is a powerful new process, which is proprietary to iTera.
     -  Apply Accelerator: If transaction amounts cause a significant backlog in the apply process, the new Apply Accelerator can be configured to update data within the system automatically.
     -  E2KG: As the name implies, this new feature is like an electrocardiogram for your Echo2 system. Initially designed as a method for automating some of the pre-rollover check processes, running it on a weekly basis is beneficial to ensure system integrity.
These updates reduce the amount of time needed to monitor the solution allowing the end user more time to focus on other important tasks. iTera’s commitment to providing affordable solutions and improving current solutions has helped iTera become the preferred choice in high availability.

iTera's Echo2 Costs Less to Buy and Far Less to Own
iTera's Echo2 costs about the same as our competitor's scaled down "lite" and "express" offerings, but there is nothing "lite" about it. iTera's Echo2 is a comprehensive, powerful, and full-featured iSeries High Availability solution, yet it costs significantly less than other full-featured iSeries High Availability or iSeries Disaster Recovery products. Another huge cost benefit is the amount of money that iTera's Echo2 saves after it is purchased. For instance, since iTera's Echo2 costs only a fraction of other full-featured AS400 High Availability products, saving you tens of thousands each year on annual maintenance fees alone. And because of significant automation and ease-of-use features, iTera's Echo2 rarely takes more than 15 to 20 minutes a day to manage. Compare this to the several hours a day required by many other AS400 Disaster Recovery solution. iTera's Echo² HA Edition is remarkably efficient, reliable, easy-to-use, and affordable, which is why it's become the fastest selling high availability solution in the iSeries world. Since 2000, Echo² has been installed at hundreds of locations worldwide, many of these installations are at companies that used another high availability product. So why would they abandon their previous HA investment and switch to Echo²? Simple. iTera proves time and time again it can eliminate frustrations caused by other inefficient, unreliable, or high-cost HA products.