New Release: Get the Private Cloud you Want From the Infrastructure You’ve Got
Symantec today announced a major refresh to its Storage and Availability Management portfolio to help customers build the private cloud they want by transforming their existing infrastructure.Symantec’s high availability solutions will enable users to architect resilient private clouds with fast local or global recovery of complete business services and data replication across any distanc
Virtual Business Services: High Availability for Complex Applications
Things just aren't as simple as they used to be. There was a time when we could achieve nearly all of ouruptime goals just by clustering our backend database servers and maybe a handful of other applicationservers. There was very little of that weird virtualization voodoo going on, and all our important applications ran on physical servers.New Release: Storage Foundation High Availability 6.2
With the latest release of Symantec Storage Foundation High Availability 6.2,Symantec allows customers to increase mission-critical application performance across Solaris Sparc and AIX platforms with SmartIO and Flexible Storage Sharing capabilities in Storage Foundation and
Taneja says "Symantec Veritas Cluster Server Takes Vrtual Server HA to the Next Level"
Taneja says "Symantec Veritas Cluster Server Takes Vrtual Server HA to the Next Level" This is an awesome testimonial from Jeff Byrnes, an analyst from Taneja Group, who provides expert analysis and consulting services for the computer storage and server industries.Everything you think you know about clustering is wrong
We're making some pretty big changes in how we deliver high availability and disaster recovery, and to do that, we have to change how we look at HA & DR. But in order to do that, we first need to debunk a few myths about clustering that seem to have crept into a lot of people's heads over the years. This is the first in a series of posts I'll be putting up here at Symantec Connect over the coming week or so in which I'll lay out some common misconceptions of HA clustering and explain why they're wrong. Here's an example of what some people believe about clustering and which I'll refute over the coming days: Clustering is unreliable Clustering is too complex Clustering is expensive Sure, like any other myth these have their origins in someone's actual experience, but just like the mythology of ancient Greece, there's a yawning chasm between these myths and reality. Sorry, Zeus. How did these myths come to be? Pretty simple, really. Combine equal parts unrealistic expectations, inadequate training, inferior cluster products, and poor internal processes, blend with a dash of short-sightedness, and you've got the perfect Confusion Souffle right there. OK, maybe I'm taking the cooking analogy a little too far, but you get the idea. The problem began with how we viewed HA clustering early on. We always focused on clustering the big, backend database server, which more often than not also hosted the application that was using that database. But application architectures and other data center technologies evolved while our view of HA clustering didn't. Well, actually, our view of clustering evolved, but we weren't always very good at communicating that evolution to our customers. So, starting today, we're hitting the big, red "Reset" button on how we look at high availability, disaster recovery, and - most importantly - application management in the modern data center. Stay tuned.
