Availant and IBM Complete Joint Development Effort on High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing -HACMP- for AIX Version 5.1.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003 Latest release of IBM's industry-leading 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. clustering software is the most recent accomplishment of a twelve-year technology partnership. Availant, a provider of engineering and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , announces the completion of a joint software engineering effort for the development of the High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM) HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi Processing ) for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (R) Version 5.1.0. Since 1990, Availant and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) have collaborated in a successful technology partnership for the design and development of HACMP for AIX, IBM's high availability offering for pSeries servers. "The long-standing and successful collaboration between IBM and Availant continues to provide real value for customers who are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. High Availability solutions," said Michael Michaud, Vice President of Engineering at Availant. "The recent DH Brown review of HACMP demonstrates that HACMP continues to be the premier High Availability solution in the marketplace." HACMP for AIX is geared to e-Server pSeries (TM) customers with business-critical applications and systems. The software provides near-continuous application uptime for clustered servers by rapidly switching from one system to another in the event of a hardware or software failure. HACMP 5.1.0 supports clusters of up to 32 servers with extensive capabilities: cluster management, status monitoring, concurrent shared-access management, as well as support for a host of IBM pSeries servers and storage devices. HACMP V5 also provides a new feature, HACMP/XD (Extended Distance), which provides new data backup and disaster recovery capabilities. "HACMP Version 5 is the product of a lot of hard work," stated John Olson
Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). market." For ordering information, contact an IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM America's Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL. About Availant Availant is a provider of professional and engineering services. Offerings include SAN and storage assessment, planning, design and implementation; data migration; availability assessment; HACMP cluster planning, design and implementation; validation testing; course development and delivery in AIX, clustering and storage; and development services across UNIX and Windows. Founded in 1989, the company's customers include more than half of Fortune 500 companies in the finance, telecommunications, retail, health care and transportation industries, where high availability and continuous access to enterprise information is essential to business operations. Availant is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, call Availant at 888.94.AVAIL or visit the company's Web site at http://www.availant.com/. IBM is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Availant is a registered trademark of Availant, Incorporated. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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