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Application Availability
Understanding What Makes Critical Applications Tick
Not all availability solutions are equal. To really keep applications available 24x7 without overloading costs and resources it’s important to understand how they work, how they change over time and most importantly automate as much as possible leaving nothing to chance.
Application issues, for example queue lengths expanding, memory resource issues, response times and resource contention are more likely to cause downtime than a component or site failure. Dealing with specific application issues is a critical requirement for any continuous availability solution.
Application Availability with Neverfail is controlled by the Application Management Framework (AMF) working in conjunction with plug-ins. The framework is controlled by a graphical interface virtually eliminating any need for scripting.
To keep operational costs down, productivity up and provide the maximum level of protection a high level of failover automation is required, where problem detection is integrated with data replication and seamless failover whether locally or remotely.
For this reason AMF automates as much as possible. It is driven by plug-ins which can understand the structure of an application. Neverfail uses plug-ins to keep track of registry entries are, what windows services must be running, where database components are held and how a healthy application should be behaving. As configurations change so AMF discovers those changes ensuring critical applications are always available.
These plug-ins are pre-defined, yet extensible. Out of the box Neverfail plug-ins are available for email availability, Sharepoint disaster recovery, SQLServer high availability, disaster protection for BlackBerry messaging and many others.
Neverfail does the heavy lifting to enable business continuity solutions to be active from day-one. Whether looking for high availability, disaster recovery or a combination of both, Neverfail will keep your critical applications always available to the user.