Fast and easy UNIX-grade reliability and
availability for Linux environments
SIOS solutions bring the high levels of reliability and availability you expect from an expensive, proprietary UNIX environment to Linux environments that benefit from low-cost commodity hardware and open source software. SIOS SteelEye Protection Suite (SPS) for Linux scales from simple 2-node clusters to multi-site wide-area clusters that enable both high availability and data protection/disaster recovery with a single solution.
SPS for Linux delivers:
- Innovative “application awareness” to ensure service continuity: SPS goes beyond telling you whether your applications, databases, and networks are up or down. Our unique Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) provide granular visibility into the health of your SAP, Oracle, and other packaged or custom applications, so you can ensure your systems are properly responding – not just technically running. This SIOS innovation enables our solutions to take intelligent recovery steps rather than just defaulting to a complete system failover every time there is an issue.
- A simple and proven path to superior availability: Wizard-based installation and a centralized GUI make it easy to monitor and protect your entire IT stack – no custom file systems or volume managers required. Unlike other offerings on the market, SIOS solutions are built on a proven and stable architecture that isn’t constantly in flux, so you can start small and perform rolling upgrades with no need to “rip and replace” as your requirements change.
- Fast time to benefit for a rapid return on investment: You can rapidly integrate SPS into your existing IT infrastructure, whether you’re running Linux on physical machines, virtual machines, or in the cloud. Because our software is easy to manage and maintain and requires no expensive hardware, you can cost-effectively extend high availability protection to all of your enterprise applications, from e-mail to ERP.
- Better Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs): SPS operates in real-time to ensure that the most recent data is available for recovery – whether your servers are oceans or inches apart. Our unique “any point in time rewind” capability enables you to rewind data to any moment before data loss occurred. In minutes, you can restore your information and resume normal business operations, improving RPOs by an order of magnitude. Innovative replication technologies also eliminate the latency and distance limitations of traditional disaster recovery approaches.
- Lower TCO: SIOS software is designed with simplicity in mind, so you don’t need a team of replication gurus to configure and manage your data protection solution. You can streamline routine operations such as store-to-corporate replication by moving away from less-agile strategies like tape backups. Plus, support for sync and async replication modes, sophisticated data compression algorithms that conserve bandwidth, and no need for expensive STONITH devices and quorum servers means a much lower TCO compared to UNIX HA/DR solutions.
