Qualix Group Announces HP-UX and IBM AIX/6000 Versions of its QualixHA+ High Availability Software Enterprise-Wide Recovery Management for Clusters of up to 8 Servers.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1997--Qualix Group, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :QLIX) announces the availability of HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 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) AIX/6000 compatible versions of QualixHA+, a next generation high-availability software solution for UNIX-based distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. systems. QualixHA+ features advanced clustering technology that provides application oriented monitoring and recovery for clusters of up to 8 servers, enabling organizations to survive multiple system failures with almost no perceptible interruption to their business-critical applications. Both the new HP-UX and IBM AIX/600 versions, as well as the previously announced Sun Solaris version of QualixHA+ offer intelligent application-oriented HA monitoring and load-balanced recovery to minimize server downtime of mission-critical applications and servers. In addition, they feature integrated modules that permit individual monitoring of specific database and critical application environments. "By adding new versions of QualixHA+ to support both HP-UX and IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. environments, Qualix is now able to provide customers operating on those platforms with a high availability clustering solution that is substantially more powerful and flexible than the proprietary alternatives provided by those vendors," said Qualix Executive Vice President Jean Kovacs. Advanced Clustering Offers Maximum Protection Across Platforms Designed to improve the availability of individual systems, data, applications, and networks, QualixHA+ allows up to eight servers and multiple applications to be combined into one robust high availability cluster. It has the ability to recover an entire server, or recover a single troubled application, enabling the original server to remain operational. Should a server or application fail, any one of the cluster members can take over the function of the troubled service. The versatile QualixHA+ features modular configuration options that protect against multiple failures, and allow the addition of new databases, web servers, and other server functions as an organization grows. Peer-to-peer clustering architecture eliminates the need for idle stand-by nodes, thereby preventing unnecessary expenditures for incremental hardware. Intelligent HA Monitoring and Load-Balancing Recovery Maximize Uptime QualixHA+ employs an intelligent decision-making process to detect and recover server and application failures. When a failure is detected, a transparent "election" process determines the most appropriate server within the cluster to assume control and continue providing a given service. The granularity of QualixHA+ monitoring and recovery also ensures that only those services that have failed are migrated. As a result, no disruptions are made to those not experiencing error conditions. The product's unique load-balancing failover and recovery allows each service to be designated to a different server, enabling the entire application load in the QualixHA+ cluster to be continuously balanced in the event of such failures. Without this valuable feature, all applications would be failed over indiscriminately to a single, pre-determined stand-by server, potentially creating a serious slowdown in performance for end users. QualixHA+ Modules, Open Architecture Support All Critical Services QualixHA+ includes a set of failover and recovery modules that fully integrate the product's monitoring, restart, recovery and intelligent failover capabilities with all critical IS components across the entire enterprise. In particular, individual QualixHA+ Modules are available for the Oracle, Sybase, CA-OpenIngres and Informix database environments; Apache, Netscape and NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic Web server platforms; NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System servers; the Tivoli Management Environment (TME See Tivoli Systems Management Software. ) 10; and the Checkpoint Firewall-1. Additional applications or other critical resources can be defined as QualixHA+ service groups by using an open API. Additionally, QualixHA+ has been certified to integrate with a variety of RAID products, including those manufactured by Baydel, Sun, DEC/Storage Works, DG Clarion, Boxhill, 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. , and Storage Dimensions. QualixHA+ also supports a full range of networking technologies that can be monitored, restarted, and failed over as a part of the cluster. These include Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , and CDDI (Copper Distributed Data Interface) A version of FDDI that uses UTP (unshielded twisted pair) wires rather than optical fiber. The technology was developed by Crescendo Communications, Sunnyvale, CA, which was acquired by Cisco in 1993. environments. Pricing, Upgrades and Specifications In addition to the new HP-UX 10.x and IBM AIX/6000 4.x compatible versions, QualixHA+ is also available on Sun Solaris versions 2.4, 2.5, and 2.51. Prices start at $6,000 per node, and vary according to the number of nodes in the QualixHA+ cluster and the options that are selected. For more information, contact Qualix Group, Inc. by phone at 415/572-0200, via e-mail at info@qualix.com, or visit the company's web site at http://www.qualix.com . Qualix Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLIX) is a leading developer of enterprise-wide high availability solutions for both the UNIX UNIX 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). and Windows NT distributed computing environments. The company's reliability products have assured the availability of business-critical information at more than 7,000 installations, including many Fortune 1000 corporations. Qualix Group is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with 16 offices across North America and distribution across more than 30 countries. -0- Note to Editors: Qualix, QualixHA+ and QualixHA+ Modules are trademarks of Qualix Group Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Qualix Group, Inc. Boris Geller, 415/572-0200 boris@qualix.com or S & S Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. Sarah Grossman, 847/291-1616 Ext. 257 grossmans@hitekpr.com |
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