Amsterdam, Netherlands - April 2nd, 2003
High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released an aggressively-priced “all-in” RSF-1 solutions package to provide High Availability for Linux systems.
The new package is a complete solution to provide High Availability services for Linux environments, including application monitoring support for many popular Linux applications including MySQL and Oracle databases, Apache Web servers, Samba file services and many other popular applications.
The aggressively priced $599 bundle includes: downloadable software and documentation, 2 x RSF-1 Linux licenses, RSF-1 application monitoring agents and 12 months email support. Alternative maintenance packages are available in a choice of options with simple and aggressive pricing designed to bring known fixed-pricing (including Total Cost of Ownership), and a simple yet complete solutions package that is ready to deploy.
RSF-1, the first commercially available High Availability product for Linux and first launched in 1995, integrates seamlessly with many popular applications enabling higher availability through the use of fail over mechanisms that are triggered in the event of hardware, Operating System, Network or application failure. HAC provide application-monitoring agents, which allow critical services to be constantly monitored by the RSF-1 Application Monitoring Interface, whereby a server failure will result in instant restart and/or recovery of the service on a standby node.
“Having developed and supported RSF-1 on the Linux platform since 1995, we have long recognised the growing significance of Linux solutions in the market”, said Grenville Whelan, High-Availability.Com's Chairman, “and we also recognise the price sensitivity that comes with supplying commercial solutions built with freely available and open-licensed software, which is why we have significantly reduced our pricing on Linux!”
The new $599 RSF-1 for Linux package is available online now at http://www.linux-high-availability.com
ABOUT RSF-1
RSF-1, first released in 1995, is a mature high availability and cluster middleware application that ensures critical applications and services keep running in the event of system failures. It sits between the storage volume management and application layers of typically: web servers, application servers, firewall servers and database servers, providing support for most leading applications in those areas. RSF-1 has achieved both OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point for products that “have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability” with FireWall-1, and also certification under the SunTone Program from Sun Microsystems, which is “designed to give customers the confidence that every aspect of a solution's operations and infrastructure has been evaluated and judged to be reliable and of high quality”.
ABOUT High-Availability.Com
High-Availability.Com designed and developed the first High Availability solution for Sun Unix servers in 1995 and have been leading the mission-critical market ever since with innovative products to maximise availability of our customers' business IT and internet-facing functions. The company's solutions span the range of requirements by today's market to ensure 24×7 uptime of mission-critical environments. The Company is focused on developing solutions that enable applications to be more highly available and more highly accessible than ever before.
In addition to software licensing, HAC offers a comprehensive set of pre and post sales Professional Services and manages a 24×7 support organisation to ensure our customer's critical environments keep running.
HAC sells and supports products to customers all over the world through our reseller partnership programme that has local representation in every continent.
The company's corporate headquarters is located at Grenville House, Haig Court, Haig Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8XZ, UK. Tel: +44 1565 754 459, Fax: +44 7092 300 030, email: info@high-availability.com Web site: http://www.high-availability.com