Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 30 | Page 68

t cht lk TECH TALK companies that can’t afford any disruption to business continuity.” Using a journal-based process as opposed to snapshot-based backups, Arcserve RHA continuously replicates data at the file system level of files or folders and applications, and full physical or virtual systems with heartbeat-powered automatic failover to ensure they remain operational. Designed to work in dissimilar hardware and environments, it eliminates the need for a collection of expensive replication tools focused on specific applications and systems. 68 INTELLIGENTCIO “We are using Stratus Technologies’ everRun Extend, powered by Arcserve RHA, in multiple locations to protect the Access Control Systems (ACS) for a large financial company, which we’ve found to be perfect for maintaining functional warm redundant servers,” said Patrick Callahan, VP of Sawyers Control Systems, Inc. “This solution has made maintenance work and the entire business continuity process very easy. It’s unlike any other high availability solution we’ve evaluated and allows us to seamlessly achieve continuous access to systems for our clients who can’t afford any extended downtime.” Joost Verhofstad, Channel Sales Manager at Stratus Technologies, added: “Some of the largest organisations in the world use Stratus everRun Extend, powered by Arcserve RHA, to transform their applications into continuously available solutions. Arcserve’s Replication and High Availability technology is added to Stratus’ leading offering of high-availability and fault-tolerant system solutions, in order to meet any and all of Stratus’ customers www.intelligentcio.com