PolyServe Introduces UnderStudy High-Availability Server Clustering For E-Business
Aug 18th, 21:55 UTC
Web and network managers can now create and maintain high-availability server clusters at a breakthrough price point. LINUXWORLD, SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 9, 1999 - PolyServe today announced Understudy, a high-availability server clustering software suite for e-business. This new software product provides: sophisticated process monitoring, server failover, network administrator notification, content replication/synchronization and reintegration.
Understudy monitors IP services including HTTP, SMTP, TCP and FTP. Upon detection of a failure, Understudy removes the failed server from the cluster and fails-over to the secondary backup host. Understudy then generates a network administrator notification via email and/or page. Understudy also includes the first commercial application of InterMezzoTM, state-of-the-art distributed file system software developed by Stelias Computing. Via InterMezzo, Understudy provides sophisticated data replication and content distribution. InterMezzo ensures that all servers in the cluster always have the most up-to-date version of every relevant file. Thus, if a server fails and drops out of the cluster, all file activity from that server prior to failover will have been accurately replicated on the other servers in the cluster, enabling uninterrupted service. Upon recovery, a failed server can be re-integrated into the cluster where it will be immediately and automatically updated with all relevant file changes.
"Many of our customers have been asking for a simple, affordable, high-availability solution," said Mark Orr, VP of Business Development at Cobalt Networks. "Understudy's automatic failover, along with it's content replication and synchronization substantially reduces the cost and complexity of creating, and more importantly, maintaining server clusters. When coupled with Cobalt's server appliances, the simplicity, scalability and cost savings are truly amazing."
"It just doesn't make sense to expect a customer with two servers costing somewhere under $4,000 each to have to pay $10,000 to $40,000 more to ensure high-availability." said Vincent Schiavo, President and Co-Founder of PolyServe. "Before Understudy the only path to high-availability was very expensive hardware switching products or equally expensive specialized software. In introducing Understudy, we're making sophisticated server clustering and redundancy available to anyone with multiple servers of any kind. Understudy costs at least one order-of-magnitude less than any other solution on the market. With this kind of breakthrough affordability we believe high-availability failover and replication will become a 'best practices solution' just like data backup or virus protection."
Pricing and Availability... Introductory versions of Understudy are available now. More information is available on the PolyServe website at www.polyserve.com. General availability of Understudy will be on September 1st, 1999. Pricing is $999 for Linux, $1,499 for NT, and $2,499 for Solaris versions. The price includes a free year of support (maintenance and upgrades), documentation, and distribution media (CD). Pricing is per server pair. Volume pricing and site licenses are available by contacting PolyServe directly. (The NT version of Understudy does not require NT Server Enterprise Edition.)
About PolyServe... Based in Berkeley, California, PolyServe is a developer of high-performance, high-availability network server software products for Internet based applications and services.
PolyServe's financial backing comes from The Roda Group, a venture development firm best known as the technology incubator behind Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ "ASKJ", www.ask.com).
For more information PolyServe can be reached at (650) 665-2929 or visit PolyServe's web site at www.polyserve.com.
Press Contact:
Gary Hemminger
PolyServe
(650) 665-2929
gary@polyserve.com
(Submitted by Gary Hemminger of PolyServe)
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