SCO - Continuing to set the pace for high-availability software solutions for enterprise Intel systems, SCO recently announced UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters, the latest release of the award-winning clustering software. UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters delivers the enterprise power of UNIX systems while dramatically enhancing the availability and scalability of cost-effective, Intel processor-based servers.
UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters significantly eases system management with the industry`s only true single system image (SSI) UNIX clustering solution. Today`s release is backed by a brand new set of service offerings and new certified hardware from Compaq, Siemens and Fujitsu (Europe).
"In this era of eBusiness and 7x24 computing, many businesses have millions of dollars at risk every hour a system goes down," said John Bondi, vice president of Server Product Marketing at SCO. "UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters delivers the security of a powerful, reliable and highly available enterprise system coupled with fail-over and load balancing. It lets IT managers rest easy, knowing their system can handle a wide variety of disruptive events, stay up during planned downtime while simplifying their system management functions."
Clustering for powerful UnixWare 7 platform
The highly anticipated UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters provides businesses a rock-solid foundation for all types of business-critical computing, including enhanced services for telephony, retail chains and financial institutions, as well as the new breed of eBusinesses and other mission-critical enterprise environments. It delivers unrivaled availability and scalability at a significantly lower price than comparable high-availability systems. New to this release of NonStop Clusters are:
. UnixWare 7 base: UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters is available for first time for the award-winning UnixWare 7 SVR5 kernel, the most advanced UNIX technology for volume Intel servers.
. Unsurpassed scalability allows businesses to grow with support for up to as many as 12 nodes, far beyond the capability of other volume Intel solutions.
. Easy-to-use cluster APIs and simple scripting allow application vendors to intimately link their applications to the high availability and scalability extensions provided in the UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters system.
. Superior data integrity with new cross-node mirroring automatically mirrors disk images between nodes. In the event of a node failure, an identical up-to-date disk is always available, delivering ultimate protection for business-critical data.
. Ultra high-speed fiber connections to shared disk storage systems provide improved performance and quick access to data.
. New feature rich cluster management tools, including a new graphical tools for event management tasks and a cluster-aware version of the familiar UnixWare 7 SCOAdmin tools allow businesses to quickly and easily manage their cluster.
"Together, Compaq and SCO continue to provide industry leadership with the enterprise solutions customers need to succeed in an Internet-based economy," said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Compaq Industry-Standard Server Division. "UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters delivers enterprise caliber availability and scalability to our ProLiant customers running SCO UnixWare."
Customer service and support
SCO recently also announced new SCO Professional Services offerings with three new packaged practices to help customers benefit from UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters. Customers can now have a skilled team of SCO professionals audit current systems to determine clustering needs, prepare clustered system for deployment and optimize current applications to maximize performance, scalability and availability on UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters systems. See www.sco.com/profservices for more information.
Applications ready today, easily optimized for maximum yield
UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters supports the current breadth of UnixWare 7 applications on the market today. While UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters will run current UnixWare 7 applications, out-of-the-box, unchanged, SCO provides a set of clustering API`s to optimize applications for greater yields in availability and performance. Many leading application vendors are already looking to gain from optimization.
"Informix has been working closely with SCO and Compaq to test and tune our leading database servers on the UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters platform," said Jim O`Gara, Vice President, Global Partners Organization at Informix Corporation. "We believe our customers will gain a huge benefit from running UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters. By continuing our very strong history of success, we expect to deliver superior application availability. We congratulate SCO on the release of UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters and look forward to continuing our support for SCO`s industry leading UNIX software."
"The modular scalability and availability protection that SCO is delivering with UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters is exactly what the e-business market is demanding," said Ken Farber, senior vice president of Strategic Business Alliances for Computer Associates. "By combining SCO`s robust platform with the comprehensive management capabilities of CA`s Unicenter TNG, our mutual clients will be able to fulfill both their service level targets and their budget constraints - not an easy thing to do as IT departments are asked to do more with less."
More iron, More options
In separate announcements recently, Compaq, Siemens and Fujitsu (Europe) announced new certified hardware for UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters, from full systems to add-on components to easily cluster current hardware. Customers now have a broader set of readily available industry-standard hardware for their most demanding enterprise needs.
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