APCON Inc. to ship POWERSWITCH for NT in early November.WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1995--APCON Inc. is set to ship a clustering solution that provides high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. for NT servers in early November. The POWERSWITCH for NT provides high availability with automatic failover in the event of a server failure. The POWERSWITCH minimizes the effects of server failures and maintenance downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. on network users. "Because businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on their networks, we foresaw the need for high availability and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. for everyone. This is a project we've had in the works for some time. We're excited the POWERSWITCH is ready to ship when other companies are just announcing they have clustering planned for future," Richard Rauch, president of APCON APCON Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria APCON American Power Conversion, Inc Inc. said. APCON's solution provides flexibility within the server cluster. Multiple servers, storage devices and peripherals can be custom configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: as part of the cluster to provide the ideal solution for business-critical applications. The POWERSWITCH software monitors server operations. When it detects an error, an automated two by four SCSI switch A device that cross connects computers to SCSI devices and overcomes certain SCSI limitations. The regular SCSI interface is a shared bus architecture, but a SCSI switch provides the full bandwidth between any two devices, greatly increasing overall throughput. switches network operations to a standby server in the cluster. The standby server can be an active part of the network before failover takes place. During a failure or scheduled maintenance, end users are transferred to another server without a major disruption in their work. As a result, mission critical applications and the data they manage are always available. The POWERSWITCH is easy to install, configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. and manage. The cluster can contain non-identical servers. It is much more flexible than clustering solutions that require complicated network software configuration and identical servers within the cluster. The POWERSWITCH allows administrators to choose what level of availability and fault tolerance they need for each network. "The NT solution was developed from the ground up. It's a cost-effective alternative to downtime or complex parallel systems. A lot of OEMs are announcing clustering strategies with plans for releases six months from now. APCON has it now, users don't have to wait until next July for a highly available network," Rauch said. Advantages of the POWERSWITCH: -- advanced system availability -- easy installation -- inexpensive solution for high availability -- custom configurations -- no additional hardware needed -- can be easily installed into users current network configurations APCON is the industry leader in high availability solutions, designing network SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. solutions for all systems needs. Founded in 1986, APCON Inc. is located in Wilsonville. Formerly known as Applied Concepts, APCON provides complete customer satisfaction through technological innovation, quality solutions and outstanding service and support. CONTACT: APCON Inc., Wilsonville Kevin Murphy There are many people named Kevin Murphy:
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