EMC Extends HP Metro Cluster Failover Capabilities.Business/Technology Editors HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Automatic Failover of Multiple Symmetrix Systems Provides Industry's Most Scalable 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. Solution EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. , the world leader in information storage, today announced it has extended the automatic failover capabilities of EMC Symmetrix The Symmetrix is EMC's flagship enterprise storage array. There have been seven generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1994 and the latest introduced in 2006. Enterprise Storage systems with Hewlett-Packard's HP MetroCluster software. The award-winning high availability solution now supports automatic remote failover of multiple Symmetrix systems in an HP environment, providing customers with the highest levels of scalability for their mission-critical applications. HP MetroCluster with EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. SRDF SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF Symmetric Remote Data Facility integrates EMC's industry-leading Symmetrix Remote Data Facility software, which provides remote failover of EMC Enterprise Storage systems, with HP's MC/ServiceGuard high availability clustering software, which reduces downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. by protecting against hardware and software failures. The solution enables automatic failover of clustered HP server environments, applications and their EMC Enterprise Storage at distances up to 50 kilometers, providing customers with a disaster tolerant data center solution. The ability to support multiple Symmetrix systems enhances this technology to allow customers to scale their information storage environments as needed as needed prn. See prn order. , while still providing automatic failover of all information. Ms. Christine Puchegger, Manager of SAP/R3 Technical Support at Telekom Austria Telekom Austria is a provider of a range of fixed line, mobile, data, and Internet communications services. In addition to its operations in Austria, Telekom Austria also has a wireline segment represented in the Czech Republic with Czech On Line, a leading Internet service , which has implemented HP MetroCluster with SRDF to support its SAP environment, said, "HP MetroCluster with SRDF supports our most mission-critical application and ensures that it will be available 7x24. As our business requirements have grown, we have deployed several Symmetrix systems to support our growing volumes of data. With this new capability, the multiple Symmetrix systems, the servers and the applications are all capable of remote failover, which provides Telekom Austria with the levels of availability needed to give our customers the levels of service they require." Mark Hudson, Senior Director for HP's Business Critical Computing computing - computer Unit, said, "HP's MetroCluster with SRDF is providing customers with a high level of business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. capabilities. The extension of this technology to support multiple Symmetrix systems is a testament to the efforts between HP and EMC to provide customers with a choice of storage solutions for HP servers that meet their uptime/disaster recovery requirements." HP MetroCluster with EMC SRDF was developed as part of EMC's participation in HP's 5nines:5minutes Alliance. EMC is a foundation partner in the Alliance, which is an ongoing effort to provide customers with solutions that deliver 99.999% end-to-end availability, or less than 5 minutes of down-time a year, for their mission-critical applications. In addition to the 5nines:5minutes Alliance, HP is a charter member of EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program, which enables the development of applications tightly integrated with EMC Enterprise Storage systems through a variety of application programming interfaces (APIs). HP MetroCluster with SRDF received a 1999 Crossroads A-List award for disaster tolerant solutions as a result of customer implementations and interviews. Jim Rothnie, EMC's Senior Vice President of Product Management, said, "The Internet has redefined high availability. Downtime, now more than ever, can have a catastrophic impact on a business. The addition of multiple Symmetrix support in HP MetroCluster environments is a result of customer demand for the protection that an automatic failover solution provides and the scalability to meet their ever-growing information needs. EMC and HP have worked closely, listened to mutual customers and developed this innovative capability to meet their requirements." About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC) is the world leader in information storage, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com. EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage, EMC E-Infostructure, EMC Proven and SRDF are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. |
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