IBM Sterling Global Mailbox
Helps companies address demands for high availability operations and redundancy
IBM Sterling Global Mailbox
Pragma Edge’s IBM Sterling Global Mailbox offers a robust, geographically distributed data storage solution designed to meet the growing demands for high availability and operational redundancy. With built-in support for active-active communication, it ensures near real-time resiliency against disruptions and effective disaster recovery. This solution integrates seamlessly with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway and is designed to work with IBM Sterling Control Center.
Companies need to exchange a variety of business files and documents across a wide variety of use cases – and do so in real-time. These demands put enormous pressure on IT departments to architect a B2B integration platform that is highly available and can execute the just-in-time exchange of critical business information and documents.
Complicating this issue is the fact that many companies that operate regionally disperse data centers for both performance and disaster recovery purposes. Companies go to great lengths and expenses to ensure 24×7 availability, often deploying redundant software and hardware. IBM recognizes the challenge companies encounter trying to meet the demands of high-availability operations – and prepares for any potential disruption or disaster recovery.
To help companies meet these challenges, IBM Sterling Global Mailbox is an optional component of its IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway solutions. This high-availability mailbox capability enables geographical distribution and data replication capabilities that leverage active/active communications. Sterling Global Mailbox makes use of functionality built into other IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration portfolio architectures, as well as other technologies, to deliver a high-availability solution across multiple data centers.
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.
Using IBM Sterling Global Mailbox, companies that operate regional data centers for customer service and performance purposes can now design and deploy a high-availability architecture. Sterling Global Mailbox provides data storage across geographically distributed locations. Data is regularly routed to the nearest available regional data center and then replicated across centers in near real-time. Enabled applications can listen for mailbox events to trigger application- level actions, such as initiating further processing.
Companies looking to deploy IBM Sterling Global Mailbox can leverage the solution to:
Sterling Global Mailbox - FAQ's
It is used for storing files in mailbox and transferring tiles, and it is an optional application and can be integrated with a sterling integrator or sterling file gateway. It comes with features like high application availability and data replication, and we can select the region where our data should be stored.
Yes, SI has a built-in mailbox. A user can use the built-in mailbox or the global mailbox if he is expecting additional features like (high availability, data replication etc.
- High availability: The application is deployed in many regions to make it highly available (if one data center goes down, the application in other regions will make the application available for the users)
- Data Replication: The copies of data are stored in multiple regions. We can decide in which location the data should be stored to maximize the speed while accessing the data.
We can use protocol like FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, AS2 for transferring files.
Global mailbox is a separate application, and it can be used with Sterling integrator or sterling file gateway, whereas built-in the sterling mailbox is a feature of the SI. There are some extra features of a global mailbox, like the high availability of the application and data replication. We can select the region in which our data should be stored.
The virtual root is a particular path that we will give to clients. The benefit of the virtual root is hiding the actual hierarchy of paths like partner knows the directory. Still, he doesn’t know the actual path.
For example, we have a path that /000/111/222/333/444 partner wants to access the 444 directories; here, a virtual root gets into the picture. We create a virtual root so that partner directly connects to the 444 directories. So that partner doesn’t know the path 00/111/222/333, he will directly route to the 444 directories.
Global Mailbox is a facility for creating a directory of mailboxes with sub mailboxes and hosting them across multiple data centers. Messages are created by Global Mailbox for applications (on behalf of trading partners, as application users) and stored in mailboxes.
IBM Sterling Global Mailbox 6.0 helps companies address demands for high availability operations and redundancy with a robust and reliable data storage solution available across geographically distributed locations.
When you copy a file from Sterling Connect: Direct® to Sterling B2B Integrator, you can copy it to a Sterling B2B Integrator mailbox. Mailboxes allow you to organize, store, and manage trading partner documents and transactions, by providing business document repositories.
