SIOS Technology Releases Application Availability Platform for Businesses

SIOS Technology, a provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, announced details of its SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux v7.3 (SPS 7.3), including its use as both an advanced high-availability (HA) clustering solution for Red Hat (News - Alert) Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) and as a full-featured replacement for the discontinued HP Serviceguard for Linux.

“Our priority is to provide customers with superior business continuity and disaster recovery solutions while also offering products that are flexible and easy-to-use,” the company indicated.

Since HP’s Serviceguard for Linux is no longer available for new deployments and is no longer being updated, many enterprises will soon require an alternative HA solution that provides protection for their critical Linux-based workloads.

SIOS leveraged its long-time partnership with HP to make SteelEye SPS 7.3, a good alternative, designed and developed specifically to protect enterprise user’s Linux applications and optimized for HP server and storage environments.

SteelEye SPS 7.3 is also an ideal choice for customers looking to deploy Red Hat’s recently released Enterprise Linux 6 platform. The Red Hat platform is designed to support today’s flexible and varied enterprise architectures while delivering a more comprehensive foundation customers need for physical, virtualized and cloud deployments.

The applicability and value of this new Red Hat platform is further enhanced and extended when combined with the application-aware clustering feature found in SteelEye SPS 7.3

This product contains several features that make the high availability platform the ideal choice for customers in the process of migrating their critical business applications and databases from proprietary UNIX to Linux systems.

The solution incorporates application awareness capabilities that create, change and manage availability while protecting the entire system stack through a single intuitive GUI. This automated and integrated awareness capability also provides extensive monitoring and management that results in faster recovery in the event of failure.

In addition, this feature contains the ability to understand the interdependencies that occur between all system components, compared to competitors whose application awareness features are limited to only monitoring the hardware, operating system (OS) and database.

In addition, SteelEye SPS 7.3 is highly flexible in its support for a variety of configuration and advanced I/O Fencing mechanisms including small computer System Interface (SCSI) reservations, Shoot the Other Node in the Head (STONITH), and Witness servers. The solution can be designed and deployed in any existing environment and provides continued investment protection by allowing continued updates to made over time.

And while many competitors continuously redevelop their underlying architecture causing IT departments to completely reconfigure their environments, the new product provides customers with a proven and stable high-availability architecture, with a decade of upward compatibility, resulting in lower recovery time objective (RTO).

SIOS Technology is assisting large enterprises in moving into cloud computing. It delivers a platform as a service (PaaS) solution to enterprise customers. The SIOS cloud platform is an on-premise solution allowing CIOs to maximize their existing investments in data center infrastructure while moving workloads safely and securely into the cloud.

The company is also a provider of data and application availability solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery for Windows, Linux and virtual platforms.

Sold under the SteelEye brand, the company offers data replication, application protection, high-availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions. SIOS Technology is a unit of SIOS Technology Group based in Japan, a recognized provider of Web application software and data center infrastructure, with a focus on the development and distribution of open source software.

In related news, SIOS Technology Corp. announced London-based Datrix as its first channel partner to offer SIOS’ recently launched subscription-based pricing for the award-winning SteelEye line.