When faced with the task of assessing the risks and impact of downtime, many companies either don’t know where to start or simply decide to live with the unknown and hope that nothing bad happens. Yet it’s important to ask if clients know how much even 5 minutes downtime affects their company’s bottom line. (more…)
Having recently read the Software Advice article “A Plain English Guide To Modern Manufacturing Methods” on Internationalechem’s blog, there is something else to consider when looking to improve overall equipment efficiencies (OEE). (more…)
We’ve been working with UK manufacturing companies of late – protecting their production line environments with Marathon everRun. So we have added a new page to our web site that specifically deals with their issues – please take a look at high availability for manufacturing to find out more.
Every business welcomes a new sale - but it’s so frustrating when the opportunity is lost because your internal systems don’t work, despite your sales people doing everything they can to close the deal. And from the consumer point of view, it can be equally frustrating …… (more…)
The British Chambers of Commerce, in partnership with the Carbon Trust, have launched a web site to raise awareness of the Carbon Trust’s unsecured, 0% business loans for energy saving equipment. Loans of between £3,000 and £500,000 are available…. (more…)
We’re including here a recent product review of Marathon everRun high availability software by LAN Magazine – the article is written by a well-known independent Dutch IT reviewer who doesn’t always give favourable reviews….. (more…)
A simple definition of high availability and disaster recovery:
Don’t confuse high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), or expect a DR solution to meet your availabililty needs. Put simply, high availability is about PREVENTING downtime and disasters, while disaster recovery is RECOVERING FROM PROBLEMS once they occur. Disaster recovery solutions are designed to help you recover from true disasters (floods, fires), not minor problems (network card failure, storage corruption).
everRun 2G provides fault tolerant high availability for physical or virtual environments. Our partners, Marathon Technologies, (developers of the everRun group of products) have produced a full one hour demonstration showing how to protect critical applications using a software based solution loaded on non proprietary hardware. (more…)
Businesses of all sizes, from multinational enterprises to small and midsize businesses, are using the messaging and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange to run business functions that if lost, for even a short amount of time, can result in severe business disruption. (more…)
Virtualisation technologies make it much easier and less expensive to keep key applications available through failures, outages and even regional disasters. By carefully balancing downtime costs and availability options, organisations can extend the benefits of high availability (HA) to even more applications, locations and users. (more…)
