Application Availability No Longer an Option for ERP: Comdisco Provides Critical Level of Protection with Availability Services.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- Organizations can protect their critical enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) and database applications from business interruptions and disasters with a series of Availability Services from Comdisco, Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ). These services significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to recover processing capabilities and minimize data and transaction loss. Comdisco's Availability Services for ERP and database applications link Comdisco's continuity experience, its worldwide network, and facilities infrastructure with high-availability technology to provide custom solutions that meet each organization's specific business needs. These services protect data using hardware data mirroring, or a combination of software replication technology and standby database services. "Organizations that use ERP are dealing with more than an application suite, they are managing a technology infrastructure that their employees, customers, and suppliers are dependent upon to conduct business in a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week environment," said John Jackson John Jackson may refer to: Politics:
Comdisco's three types of Availability Services for ERP and database applications offer the following benefits: - Resumption RESUMPTION. To reassume; to promise again; as, the resumption of payment of specie by the banks is general. It also signifies to take things back; as the government has resumed the possession of all the lands which have not been paid for according to the requisitions of the law, and the to the point of failure. Using hardware data mirroring services, a customer's ERP-specific data is mirrored in real time to one of Comdisco's 14 national and international regional data bunker bunk, bunker large storage bin. bunk forage forage, usually ensilage stored in a large storage bunk and made available to cattle or other livestock along a face of the storage. facilities, then forwarded to one of Comdisco's recovery facilities. - Reduced network costs. Using software replication with standby database services, a customer's ERP environment, file systems, and database journal logs are asynchronously mirrored to a Comdisco recovery facility. The standby databases are kept current by continuously applying the database journal logs. By replicating the journal logs and not the entire database, only changed data is sent to Comdisco's recovery facilities, reducing the amount of information that must be sent across a network. - Processing capabilities within minutes of fail-over. Using high availability processing capabilities, a customer's ERP database and critical application servers, and network nodes (networking) network node - (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host". are maintained at a Comdisco recovery facility in standby mode A sleep mode in a portable computer that provides an almost immediate resumption of operation when turned back on. In standby mode, the hard disk and display are turned off, and the CPU is throttled down to its lowest-power state. to provide processing capabilities within minutes of a system interruption or failure. Less critical applications or additional application servers can be brought online within hours of the interruption. Customers can use a combination of dedicated and shared resources Sharing a peripheral device (disk, printer, etc.) among several users. For example, a file server and laser printer in a LAN are shared resources. Contrast with shared logic. to fit their business and budgetary needs. "Businesses continue to require shorter and shorter recovery times. Comdisco Availability Services incorporate a proven methodology to ensure companies remain operational in the face of a system failure or business interruption," Jackson said. "As the entire enterprise becomes more dependent on applications such as ERP and e-commerce, we will continue to build our services capabilities to meet our customers' business and technical needs." About Comdisco Comdisco provides global technology infrastructure solutions that drive business advantage for its customers. The company offers a complete suite of information technology services including continuity, managed network services and desktop management services. Through its subsidiary Prism Communication Services Inc., Comdisco is developing a high-speed, always-on digital network, which will provide customers with leading-edge connectivity. Comdisco also offers equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
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