Assure MIMIX for AIX provides highly available data recovery and protection through failover, resync, and failback operations on both local and remote recovery servers, providing solutions for local failovers, as well as remote failovers.
In a local failover operation, the production server fails over to a local (on-site) recovery server, whereas in a remote failover operation, the production server fails over to a remote (off-site) recovery server. Failing over to a remote server is defined as Disaster Recovery, since it applies to the situation where an entire site is lost due to a disaster such as a flood or hurricane. Disaster recovery is also used for situations where failing over to a local server is adequate for keeping data available and applications running.