Kabira Introduces Next Generation High Availability Transaction Platform.Kabira HA 2.0 Makes Disaster-Tolerant 5-Nines Open Systems Platform Available on Commodity Hardware SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Kabira Technologies Inc., a leader in high performance transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. software for global enterprises, today announced the second generation of the Kabira 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. (HA) Platform for disaster-tolerant real-time applications. This latest HA offering from Kabira is designed to be the most robust, fastest HA offering the company has made available to date, running HA applications approximately 75 percent faster than earlier versions on the same hardware. With Kabira HA, enterprise customers can achieve carrier class 5-Nines availability on commodity hardware, a result previously achievable only by proprietary mainframe systems. Kabira HA is designed for failures to be transparent to users, because there is no interruption of work, no transactions are lost and there is minimal degradation in performance. "Kabira HA has been thoroughly tested and proven by large enterprises, and we are proud to say that there has not been a single reported transaction failure in real world production environments," said Dirk Epperson, vice president of Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and co-founder of Kabira. "Kabira HA 2.0 builds on that success providing faster and more robust high availability at low cost, making it a clear alternative to massive proprietary mainframes or disk-intensive clusters." Kabira HA has been enhanced to achieve higher throughput and increased speed, reducing the amount of network traffic between highly available nodes by almost 50 percent and achieving approximately 75 percent increase in throughput. In addition, the solution now supports multiple network connections between highly available nodes to enable network redundancy. Kabira HA can maintain transactions-in-flight, has no hardware or database dependencies, and requires no special programming to achieve mission-critical HA on a scalable, open platform. Leveraging the asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. capabilities of an event-driven-architecture, Kabira HA is designed to inherently monitor the system at the event level providing full coverage for transactions-in-flight, while preventing data loss. In addition to simplified coding, the lower overhead of this memory resident architecture reduces the latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. of failure recovery, providing earlier failure detection and fast rollback A DBMS feature that reverses the current transaction out of the database, returning the data to its former state. A rollback is performed when processing a transaction fails at some point, and it is necessary to start over. See two-phase commit. and restart To resume computer operation after a planned or unplanned termination. See boot, warm boot and checkpoint/restart. . About Kabira Technologies Inc. Kabira provides high performance transaction processing software for global enterprises to manage high volumes at a substantially lower cost. Kabira ensures critical business services are always available, and new services can be implemented more quickly at 5 times the performance and a fraction of the cost of traditional transaction processing systems A Transaction Processing System (TPS) is a type of information system. TPSs collect, store, modify, and retrieve the transactions of an organization. A transaction is an event that generates or modifies data that is eventually stored in an information system. . Kabira's technology has been adopted by 100 organizations in 30 countries. Companies such as Visa, AT&T, France Telecom, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Vodafone and Alcatel rely on Kabira's high-performance transaction processing to support real-time product and service offerings. The company is privately held. For more information, visit www.kabira.com. Kabira is a registered mark and the Kabira logo is a trademark owned by Kabira Technologies, Inc, or its affiliates. These marks may not be used in connection with any product or service that does not belong to Kabira Technologies, Inc. (except as expressly permitted by a license with Kabira Technologies Inc.), in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Kabira Technologies, Inc., its licensor, its subsidiaries or affiliates. |
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