Systems Integration (SI), together with Legato, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Legato's Mirroring Extension for Microsoft Cluster Service (MCS) in South Africa. Systems Integration is one of South Africa's leading storage solutions providers, and has been a local distributor for Legato products since 1989.
Jack Ward, managing director of Systems Integration, comments, "The partnership with Legato has greatly assisted us in leveraging our position in the data storage market in South Africa. Legato's Mirroring Extension has the ability to separate clustered servers, whilst ensuring that all data is protected from any form of disaster, with mirrored-disk configuration. If one system goes down, failover occurs to another server that hosts a mirrored data set. This is a necessity for any company that requires a reliable server and cannot afford any system downtime. The Legato Mirroring Extension is commonly used in financial institutions, insurance companies and ISP's."
The Legato Mirroring Extension eliminates the need to use the shared disk subsystem, previously required. This results in the reduction of total cost of ownership, by eliminating a company's need to purchase a shared disk subsystem.
Legato's Mirroring Extension provides a high-speed mirroring engine. This ensures data integrity and allows for a constant 'known state' of data on both servers. Since the user does not have to be on the same site as the server, Mirroring Extension eliminates the single point of failure of the data when the server site is destroyed or inaccessible. This allows one to avoid the loss of data, time and ultimately profits, as a result of downtime.
Ward concludes, "The introduction of Legato's Mirroring Extension into the market is an exciting addition to our current base of data storage technology. It complements SI's offerings by providing storage strategies and solutions that are mission-critical to the user."
Systems Integration is an industry-leading storage integrator with a focus on high availability and mission-critical solutions in the open systems, network environment. The company is uniquely positioned in the South African market to provide consulting, implementation and support of high availability, continuous processing storage architectures in the open systems enterprise environment.
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