Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited Selects Emic to Ensure Availability for Mission-Critical Open Source Applications; Leading Provider of Clustering Solutions Supports Global Telecommunications Business with Cost-Efficient Solution.EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Emic Networks, the leading provider of application clustering solutions for open source, announced today Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited as a new customer. Cable & Wireless, one of the world's leading international communications companies, chose Emic(TM) m/cluster to support its mission-critical MySQL(R) applications, as well as to provide a cost-efficient 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. , scalability and fail-over services. Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited, an amalgamation of four Cable and Wireless companies located in Barbados, has made Barbados one of the top 10 ranked countries in the Americas with the ability for its citizens to access and use telecommunications services. Cable & Wireless looks to Emic to support its system infrastructure that delivers residential Internet service to more than 80,000 subscribers throughout the Caribbean. "Emic has an impressive customer base, which strongly validated our selection of their m/cluster solution," said Elon Richards, senior coordinator, Internet Operations, Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited. "Emic m/cluster provides us with the availability services we need to supply Internet service to all of our customers located across a span of 11 islands." Emic m/cluster is the leading application clustering solution for MySQL databases and delivers the robustness enterprises need to build mission-critical open source applications. Emic also offers clustering solutions for Apache(TM) servers, as well as for the LAMP and LAMJ (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/PERL or JSP/J2EE) stacks. Emic's clustering solutions present a unified system image while dynamically performing load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , providing high availability and offering near linear scalability and performance. "Emic is pleased to be working with Cable & Wireless and enabling them to meet the intense demands required of a successful ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Emic Networks. About Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited Cable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communications companies. It provides fixed and mobile voice, data, IP (Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. ) and broadband services to business and residential customers, as well as services to other telecom carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internet services. Cable & Wireless' principal operations are in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Panama, Macau and Monaco. For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com. About Emic Emic offers solutions that provide availability, scalability and manageability, allowing you to run mission critical applications on low-cost open source platforms. In order to provide high availability, Emic supplies synchronous data Synchronous data Information available at the same time. To test option-pricing models, the price of the option and of the underlying should be synchronous and reflect the same moment in the market. replication, hot standby A hardware device that is connected to the computer or computer complex and remains powered on. It is ready to take over immediately if the primary unit fails. A hot standby may refer to a complete computer system; for example, a standby server, or a component in a computer such as a with fail-over, disaster recovery and online maintenance to minimize downtime. To allow your applications to scale seamlessly, Emic provides dynamic load balancing and the ability to add new servers to the cluster in real time. To easily manage your cluster, Emic provides a single management interface for deployment, performance monitoring, health checks and alerts. Emic is headquartered in Emeryville, California Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California , in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. . For more information, please visit http://www.emicnetworks.com. MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB MySQL AB (founded 1995) is dual headquartered in Uppsala Sweden and Cupertino California USA. The company is the creator and owner of MySQL, a relational database management system. in the USA and other countries. Apache is a trademark of The Apache Software Foundation (open source, body) Apache Software Foundation - (ASF) An umbrella consortium that manages the development of the Apache web server, dozens of XML- and Java-based projects (under the name Jakarta), the Ant build tool, the Geronimo J2EE server, the SpamAssassin anti-SPAM tool, and . Other products mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders. |
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