Unisys has announced the SafeGuard Family of software, a combination of software that advances clients` business continuity and real-time computing capabilities.
In addition, the new ES7000/one server is the first server with its CPU architecture in the world and provides enhanced capacity-on-demand that optimises the economics of business continuance and IT management.
"These new products advance the Unisys strategy of providing clients a single system that creates a flexible real-time infrastructure that directly and dynamically enables strategic business processes and helps them realise key benefits of secure business operations," says Bernard Donnelly, consulting services manager at Unisys Africa. "Those key benefits are breakthroughs in customer satisfaction and more efficient IT management, with higher availability and lower costs of ownership."
The SafeGuard Family also offers failover capability anywhere in the world within 30 minutes, regardless of storage subsystems.
"Business and IT executives tell us that customer satisfaction is a key driver in their increasing implementation of real-time infrastructure," says Mark Feverston, VP of enterprise solutions business at Unisys. "Exceptional business continuance and disaster recovery are essential to uninterrupted delivery of IT services enabling that critical requirement. `Uninterrupted` means serving customers transparently today and integrating new technology with legacy systems seamlessly tomorrow. Unisys`s new SafeGuard Family and ES7000/one deliver that real-time availability while allowing clients to avoid the `rip-and-replace` approach to IT evolution espoused by many IT vendors."
SafeGuard Family designed to protect assets
Designed to protect critical IT and information assets from major site disruption, the SafeGuard Family is the first in the market to support heterogeneous servers and storage environments throughout the entire data centre. The family comprises:
* SafeGuard Duplex, a new capability providing data protection by replicating critical data to a backup site. It protects data associated with a wide range of operating systems, including HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows, as well as storage systems from HP, IBM, EMC and Hitachi.
* SafeGuard 30m, delivers automated, cost-effective application failover and recovery to operations in 30 minutes or less through its capability to access data from a backup site anywhere in the world. In Microsoft SQL Server environments SafeGuard 30m can provide complete, cost-effective data protection using both data replication and server clustering.
ES7000/one: a "first" for Intel-based servers drives performance, simplifies management
The ES7000/one server is designed to drive real-time enterprise computing based on open standards. It accommodates both Microsoft Windows and Linux environments, including Red Hat and Novell SuSE distributions. Simplifying IT server management, provisioning and re-provisioning, the ES7000/one can scale as workloads grow, accommodating between four and 32 processors supporting both 32- and 64-bit processing.
The ES7000/one is the first server on the market to enable users to configure a single platform for both Intel Xeon MP and Itanium 2 processors. Unisys clients can scale back on training, maintenance and management requirements, reducing their cost of ownership.
The ES7000/one has achieved the highest performance of any Intel-based 16-processor server on the TPC-C benchmark, delivering performance more than 50% greater and cost per tpmC nearly 48% lower than those attained by the comparable IBM system.
Unisys customers can buy servers populated with active and inactive processors. They can use the active processors at any time, and activate the inactive processors through an electronic key they obtain from Unisys. This singular capability can optimise customers` cost of IT acquisition and ownership. They buy only the initially active processors and deploy the inactive ones as needed on a pay-per-use basis as workloads dictate.
"With the SafeGuard Family and ES7000/one, Unisys continues to deliver innovative solutions for exceptional business continuance that incorporate the best mix of Microsoft and open source technologies to offer our customers the greatest flexibility for real-time infrastructure available today," says Feverston.
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Unisys Africa is a black economic empowered subsidiary of Unisys Corporation - a global information technology services and solutions company. Unisys Africa combines its people`s expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology to build more secure organisations for clients by creating visibility into their business operations. For more information, visit www.unisys.co.za.
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