High Availability 2001Press Briefing.pptVIP

High Availability 2001Press Briefing Agenda What we’re announcing today…a new vision for High Availability New HA software products VERITAS Cluster Server QuickStart 2.0 VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director 2.0 VERITAS Global Cluster Manager 1.1 Key Messages for Business Press VERITAS is the Leader in High Availability Software High Availability solutions enable server applications to quickly regain access to mission critical data after a failure or disaster in order of minutes or seconds VERITAS is recognized by IDC , Gartner, and Meta as the leading multi-platform provider of HA software Estimated ? to 2/3 market share on Solaris VERITAS High Availability software is used by virtually all major financial institutions, telco’s, and xSPs worldwide on UNIX and Windows Today…VERITAS reveals pervasive High Availability strategy that simplifies the deployment of higher levels of availability in the internet data center The Internet Data Center Requires a  More Availability with Less Staff e-business and the web have created a higher level of expectation for data availability Now must deliver continuous data availability as perceived by employees, business partners, or external customers In the old IT model, High Availability was deployed only on a few high end database servers In the new environment, IT must… Deliver on high levels of availability on every server in the data center Ensure a high quality end user experience regardless of systems crashes, internet avalanches, or network failures Deploy an inherently heterogeneous, multi-layered environment from the Web server to Applications like CRM to Databases to Storage ……with same or fewer IT staff! VERITAS Unveals Vision of Enabling Pervasive Deployment of HA Extend deployment of High Availability beyond the “back-end” database server New software based load balancer that re-directs traffic requests based on context Prevents system crashes due to “internet avalanches” Cheaper and more flexible than hardwa