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- Subject: DECnews/DECsafe Failover Enhances High Availability for ULTRIX RISC
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- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
- Editorial contact:
-
- Brian Duggleby
- UNIX Product Marketing
- (603) 881-1216
-
-
- DIGITAL'S DECsafe FAILOVER ENHANCES
- HIGH AVAILABILITY, DATA INTEGRITY
- FOR ULTRIX RISC COMPUTING
-
-
- MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 26, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
- today announced the immediate availability of DECsafe Failover,
- version 1.0 for ULTRIX RISC, software which provides automatic
- failover, restart and recovery of ULTRIX services and applications
- in a DECsystem computing environment. In addition, DECsafe Failover
- software enhances the already powerful ULTRIX networking environment
- by providing transparent Network File System (NFS) failover, giving
- both Digital and non-Digital users high availability to mission-
- critical, enterprise-wide data.
-
- "One of the many strengths of an enhanced UNIX operating system
- like ULTRIX is its powerful networking ability in a distributed
- client/server environment," said Vickie Farrell, Digital's UNIX
- Product Marketing Manager. "Now, DECsafe Failover increases high
- availability and data integrity across the network, preserving user
- productivity by quickly restoring access to services and
- applications without manual intervention. In this way, DECsafe
- Failover can be a powerful foundation in an enterprise-wide,
- distributed computing environment, adding value to a proven, robust
- operating system," added Farrell.
-
- While DECsafe Failover software is designed to minimize the
- impact of system interruption, customers also benefit from increased
- application availability and improved computing power. Featuring
- dual path access, DECsafe Failover software enables two DECsystems
- to provide the same resources, i.e., the allocation of one system
- (slave) for non-critical application processing and the allocation
- of a master system to perform critical processing. In the event of a
- master system failure, the slave is able to perform both the
- critical processing and restart the failed system automatically,
- minimizing the interruption to users.
-
- In addition, duplicate copies of critical disk data can be
- maintained and recovered from disk drive and controller failures
- through Digital's optional ULTRIX Disk Shadowing product.
-
- DECsafe Failover is available now with license prices beginning
- at $8364.
-
- Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
- Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
- computer systems, software and services. Digital pioneered and
- leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor
- computing. Digital and its business partners deliver the power to
- use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
- in open information environments.
- ####
-
- Note to Editors: DECsafe, DECsystem and ULTRIX are trademarks of
- Digital Equipment Corporation.
-
- NFS is a trademark of SUN Microsystems, Inc.
-
- UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System
- Laboratories, Inc.
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- CORP/93/939
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