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Today's networked-based businesses depend on having data and applications available 24x7. For these businesses, downtime can be extremely costly. According to Experts, more than 80% of all IT-dependent companies disappear from the market in less than 12 months if they have an outage for 3 or more days.
Just take a simple example--How is your workday impacted if you have no access to your email? Or consider a manufacturing enterprise that is part of a just-in-time automotive supply chain. What impact would lack of availability have on its business? |
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| Cost of Down time |
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| Revenue : Lost revenue associated with application outages-per hour |
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Enterprise Resource Planning - $780,000 |
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Supply chain management - $660,000 |
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Internet Banking – $420,000 |
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Customer Service Center - $222,000 |
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POS/EFT – $210,000 |
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Messaging - $66,000 |
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| Business Interruption: |
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End users cannot do their job |
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IT operations are disrupted |
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Customers cannot access data |
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Suppliers cannot complete their service |
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Higher phone volume |
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Lost Orders |
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Customer care call disconnected |
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| Competitiveness |
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Weapon used against you |
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Lost Business |
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Lost market share |
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Higher expenses |
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| Litigation |
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Investor Filing |
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Supplier misunderstanding |
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Customer contract unmet |
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| Reputation |
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Customer perception |
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Investor uncertainty |
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Lender uncertainty |
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Employee turnover |
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| Lower cost solution that provides immediate value |
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| Customer can gain application availability with limited budget. Utilise existing hardware Non shared disk configuration Deploy on windows server edition |
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| Solution: |
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| EMC Auto Start SE leverages EMC’s patented, synchronous, block-level mirroring for Windows 2000 and 2003 to maximize the availability and reliability of business-critical data and applications. AS SE enables a pair of production Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 servers to act as hot spares for each other in case of failure. If a local disk fails, AS SE transparently reconnects the running application from the first server to the synchronous copy of the data on the second server in the pair. If an application or server fails, AS SE automatically restarts the application on the second server to allow business users to reconnect and continue to work. In this way, AS SE ensures that the application and data are always available to keep your Windows-powered business operational. |
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| Features: |
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Bi-directional failover |
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Either server (node) can take over the functions and identity of the failed server |
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Servers do not sacrifice their own identity during the failover process |
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Built-in fault toleranceIn the event of a disk failure, all I/O is automatically, immediately, and transparently redirected to the surviving disk on the second server |
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Block-level mirroring and availability |
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The only synchronous, block-level mirroring solution for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 with integrated application monitoring and recovery capabilities |
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Block-level mirroring ensures that complete and reliable application data images exist on both servers |
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Mirrors application-related Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 registry keys when they change |
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Provides 24x7 availability of Windows applications and data with hardware independence and configuration flexibility that complements Microsoft’s offerings Central management console |
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Centrally manages the entire environment from one management console across multiple CSBS-AA deployments for reduced administrative overhead |
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Manages availability, locally or remotely, to reduce the cost of managing remote branch offices and sites |
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Hardware independence |
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Matching hardware or software configurations are not required |
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Supports TCP/IP protocols and industry-standard network cards for mirroring data between server pairs Maintenance without downtime |
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Moves resources between clustered servers using an easy drag-and-drop interface |
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Tracks availability statistics and keeps historical data on resource utilization |
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| Benefits |
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AS SE is the only patented, block-level, synchronous mirroring solution for Windows 2000 and 2003. The key benefit of AS SE is its delivery of high availability applications and data with support for existing servers (does not require identical systems), applications, and on-board disk storage without requiring external shared storage devices. This keeps the cost and time required to deploy an availability solution to an absolute minimum .
If You are needing to benefit from the following, Auto Start SE that would benefit the solution |
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| EMC Legato NetWorker customers looking at bare metal restore for faster recovery. |
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| Windows customers looking for a less costly clustering solution than the advanced Windows solutions offered by Microsoft (MSCS) and discussed more under competition. |
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| Any Windows-based (2000, 2003 or Storage Server 2003) customer looking for centralized monitoring and control of availability from the branch/department to the data center (2-nodes-only). |
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| Existing CSBS 2000 customers looking to support Windows 2003 or to upgrade to the most current Auto Start SE product are also potential customers. |
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| Auto Start SE comes packaged with EMC Availability Modules for specific applications: |
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EMC Auto Start SE for SQL Server 2000, which comes with the Availability Module for SQL Server 2000 |
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EMC Auto Start SE for Exchange, which comes with the Availability Modules for Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, and Exchange 2003 |
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EMC Auto Start SE for Oracle, which comes with the Availability Module for Oracle supporting Oracle8 i and Oracle9 i versions |
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EMC Auto Start SE which come licensed with the Availability Modules for both Internet Information Services (IIS) and file and print services—these modules are included for use with every package of AS SE |
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EMC Full Time Auto Start/SE - High Availability for Windows Environment Businesses |
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| Threats to Availability |
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| What is Auto Start/SE? |
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A two-server bundled solution |
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Provides what you need to avoid costly effects of system failures |
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Patented block-level mirroring for zero data loss |
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Included feature ensures that a mirrored (synchronous) copy of the data is always available and current |
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Tailored to Windows operating systems |
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Protects applications from unplanned and planned downtime |
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Any type of application downtime can result in lost productivity and revenue |
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Ensures recovery-time objectives are met |
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Automates the restart process |
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| Auto Start/SE Provides Advanced Reliability |
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Unattended monitoring and failover |
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Auto Start/SE continuously monitors application services; can restart services or automatically failover to a standby server |
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Reconnects services to second data copy for fault tolerance through disk failures |
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Auto-notifies Administrators when a fault is detected |
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Automated fail back |
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Assistance in relocating application back to primary server |
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Can be managed through console to automate the failover or fail back |
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| Addressing Planned Downtime with Auto Start/SE |
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| Result: Seconds / minutes of downtime; users in global offices remain productive during planned outages |
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| AutoStart/SE Application Availability Model |
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Exchange availability |
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Example: Mirrors Exchange data, monitors Exchange Application Services, automates Exchange failover if failure of server or application is detected |
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SQL Server availability |
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Example: Mirrors SQL data, monitors SQL Server Application Services, automates SQL Server failover if failure of server or application is detected |
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Oracle availability |
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Example: Mirrors Oracle data, monitors |
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Oracle Application Services, automates
Oracle failover if failure of server or application is detected |
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File/Print Services availability |
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Example: Mirrors Windows File/Print data,
monitors Print Application Services,
automates Print Services failover if failure
of server or application is detected |
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| Support for Microsoft Server Tier and Standard Applications |
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AutoStart/SE supports all three Microsoft server tiers: |
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Standard |
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Advanced / Enterprise |
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Datacenter Server |
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AutoStart/SE supports both Microsoft application editions: |
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Standard |
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Enterprise |
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AutoStart/SE supports SQL, Exchange, and Oracle |
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| AutoStart/SE with VMware ESX Server |
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| Virtual to Virtual |
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0 km to ~10 km (local area and metro area) |
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AutoStart/SE plus VMware ESX Server (AutoStart/SE provides mirroring and application failover) |
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Windows |
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Need to provide high availability for applications running in virtual machines |
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Provide application failover (with substantial reduction in capital investment)
Excellent testing platform |
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| Physical to Virtual for Local and Metro Area |
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0 km to ~10 km (local area and metro area) |
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AutoStart/SE plus VMware ESX Server (AutoStart/SE provides mirroring and application failover) |
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Windows |
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High cost of high availability for traditional physical-to-physical failover |
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Decreased failover site TCO and complexity
Consolidate standby machines to reduce cost |
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| AutoStart/SE: Summary |
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Low cost, high value |
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Trained and deployed in hours, not days |
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Gains application availability with limited budget |
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Use existing hardware |
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Non-shared-disk configuration |
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Deploy on Windows Server Edition |
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No maintenance headaches or long outages |
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Zero data loss, with application availability |
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Solution is architected to provide value in small to medium businesses and midsize enterprises |
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Intuitive and easy-to-use GUI interface |
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Can be centrally managed in any AutoStart environment |
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Microsoft Exchange; SQL Standard and Enterprise Editions |
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Oracle |
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