Novell and Vinca Corporation are partnering to make StandbyServer available as a Novell product, expanding the range of high-availability software solutions for Novell customers. Novell`s StandbyServer is a software solution enabling customers to mirror data between servers, creating a fully redundant system that protects their businesses against hardware and software failures. Vinca has already enjoyed Novell`s support as a solution for Netware for some time. This release is for the basic Vinca Standby Server to be released in a Novell package. Vinca which is represented in SA by value added distributor SourceTech and Novell are working together to develop advanced, high-availability and clustering solutions that meet a range of customer needs for increasingly reliable, scalable and manageable networking solutions. "Novell is delivering on its promise to provide fault-tolerant solutions that help to eliminate network downtime and reduce the total cost of network ownership for our customers," said Michael Bryant, director of marketing for Novell clustering solutions. "Novell and Vinca are experienced partners delivering a higher level of system availability today." Novell`s StandbyServer is a mature, proven solution that expands the complete business protection package that we can now offer directly to our customers, channel partners, and OEMs. Vinca`s full range including NT and advanced NetWare Standby Server for muliple servers, SnapShot for data bases and WAN Links for disaster recovery remain available from SourceTech Resellers thoughout Southern Africa. By allowing customers to mirror their servers, StandbyServer provides a redundant system that can instantaneously switch, or failover, to the standby machine in the event of a server hardware or software failure. The resulting high-availability solution enables organisations to reduce or eliminate server downtime, a key to keeping critical applications up and running, establishing high levels of productivity, and maintaining a competitive advantage. Novell works with Vinca and other partners to enhance its high-availability products with technologies consistent with customer needs. Looking to the future, Novell is developing the Orion clustering solution to address availability, performance, and scalability issues for high-performance, distributed data networks. These development efforts will make data, applications, and network services available to users anytime, anywhere.
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