High Availability and Disaster Recovery Whitepapers

Neverfail Protecting Microsoft SQL Server

The basis for Neverfail for SQL Server is a combination of database replication, monitoring and seamless failover/failback which delivers SQL Server Always On.

To ensure a complete and up to date replica of your SQL Server is always available, Neverfail for Microsoft SQL Server proactively monitors your SQL Server databases, including all system and data tables, looking for data changes and to identify all the components that need to be protected. It then reconfigures itself continuously to ensure that all database changes (including new databases and file groups) are included in its replication set.


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Maximizing Business Continuity and Minimizing Cost with Neverfail® and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Technologies



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The modern business is highly dependent on IT. When systems go down, the disruption can be
widely felt, and even lead to tangible damage to the business or its brand. Against this background, it doesn’t make sense to gamble with systems availability. This survey by analyst firm Freeform Dynamics examines why so many take risks.

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Virtualization, at its most basic level, involves disengaging an application or service from the physical infrastructure required to make that service available. Why should organizations of all sizes be interested in virtualization for their messaging functionality? This report by Osterman research focuses on the North American market for virtualization to determine trends in the use of virtualization.

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Neverfail’s SharePoint Plug-in provides out-of-the-box protection for all key services within the SharePoint platform. Neverfail for SharePoint supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on 32 and 64 bit Windows 2003 server, and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 on 32 bit Windows 2003 server.

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One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT professionals everywhere are implementing virtualization for a variety of business needs, driven by opportunities to improve server flexibility and reduce operational costs.

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Server virtualization has exploded upon the IT scene. However, one question that arises is whether or not companies are willing to entrust their mission-critical Windows applications to server virtualization. Can server virtualization deliver the availability that these applications demand? The answer is now yes with software technology from Neverfail. Neverfail shields the end user from any outage that IT might experience. Neverfail thereby delivers continuous availability –a combination of high availability and disaster recovery. IT no longer has to worry about telling end users that it is sorry their application is down.

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This report, written by Aberdeen and sponsored by Neverfail, provides insight and clarification into the practices adopted by Best-in-Class companies that have begun to implement business continuity, high availability and disaster recovery requirements in applying virtualization technology.



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On average, law firms have the highest percentage of revenue-generating workers of any major industry in the world. The reliance on IT within the legal industry, from attorney communication to back-office processing, is immense. Despite this, the majority of law firms lack effective plans and solutions to deal with interruptions to the IT service. Business continuity, disaster recovery and
old-fashioned hardware failures have the potential to bring firms to their knees.

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The relentless expansion of the Internet has resulted in 24x7 demands on business globally. Developments such as web 2.0, mobile computing, and wireless hotspots mean that application and system availability requirements become more and more critical. In turn, the processes and tools required to protect those applications have evolved as well.

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This Osterman Research white paper, sponsored by Neverfail, discusses the problem of email availability based on the results of a survey conducted by Osterman Research specifically for this document. This document also discusses the need for an affordable and easy-to-manage email availability solution that will ensure that email operates on a virtually 24x7 basis, and it discusses Neverfail's email availability offerings.



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This white paper written by Pund-IT Research and commissioned by Neverfail provides insight into the BlackBerry market and Neverfail's BES solution.

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There is great pressure on government agencies today to better protect the agency's IT systems to ensure business continuity. Without such protection, server outages can result in considerable downtime producing a very negative impact, not only on the agency's prestige and reputation, but also on that organization's ability to conduct reliable operations. This is especially important for agencies that deal with financial transactions, or safety-related operations.

Meanwhile, multiple system and business-related trends have emerged to exert considerable influence over the management decisions currently being made by government system managers. These pressures have inspired a new set of priorities at government agencies. The trends fall roughly into two sets: system and business.

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Exchange 2007 was released with a number of high availability options and Service Pack 1 will bring yet another HA option for Exchange professionals to consider. In this Essential Guide, from Windows IT Pro, we provide an overview of options available from Microsoft -- and we address situations where third-party high availability solutions for Exchange 2007 are worth considering.

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Companies are under intense pressure to keep their systems running 24/7 and ensure data is continuously available. Since firms are being held to a higher standard of high availability, the challendge for most is to design server and storage systems that are truly continuous and that guard against unplanned downtime. That means high availability, long associated with application and system uptime, is evolving to include the service of data availability.

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In general, most IT professionals understand the basic concepts of risk management, even though they may not have been exposed to formal training. However, two things are happening in the IT field: the number of potential risks is growing, and the impact of some riks is increasing rapidly. Given these two changes, it may be time to consider changing the way you evaluate and protect against risks to your IT operations, and those changes begin with understanding some essential aspects of risk management.

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It's no secret that Exchange 2007 is a step forward for Microsoft's messaging platform. Numerous features and enhancements make it an excellent choice for IT environments and the organizations they support. However, email and collaboration functionality have become mission-critical, and high availability is a crucial concern. Features such as Single Copy Clusters (SCC), Local Continuous Replication (LCR) and Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) help address some of these issues. Each approach has specific requirements and potential drawbacks, however.

Neverfail significantly improves upon high availability options available for Exchange Server 2007 by providing for simplified deployment, enhanced monitoring, and the ability to easily perform seamless failover and failback operations. All of these features can lead to the benefits of minimal downtime without the added administrative overhead of other HA approaches.

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Mejorar la alta disponibilidad de Exchange Server 2007 con Neverfail.
Asegurar la fiabilidad y el failover automatico para Exchange Server 2007.

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The Robert Frances Group believes a paradox confronts financial services organizations regarding their IT infrastructures. Most such organizations are inreasingly reliant upon those infrastructures -- especially Microsoft Windows applications and operationg environments - simply to remain in operation, let alone to become and remain cometitively agile and elastic. Yet, at many of those organizations, availability efforts are not commensurate with the business criticality of IT. IT executives should work closely with business decision-makers to implement processes and solutions that deliver the highest possible availability levels to users to business-critical applications and other IT resources.

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Having your customers depend on your IT services in order to communicate, purchase, or manage orders is great for your business. It cements customer loyalty as customers willingly bind their processes to yours. But this all breaks apart when your applications or Web sites are suddenly unavailable. At one time, ensuring that your IT systems supported your business without a hiccup during tornados, hurricanes, bombings, widespread power grid failures, or just plain server downtime was a very expensive proposition. This paper from the Patricia Seybold Group, discusses solutions offered by Neverfail that eliminate disruptions of any cause. Customers, employees, traveling professionals, partners, and branch offices need never know that IT is bailing 12 inches of water out of the server room. Neverfail can deliver most of the necessary expertise embedded in technology, rescuing companies from relying on less-than-expert staff to manage continuity procedures.

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Everyone wants uptime, few are willing to pay for it, and even fewer are willing to take the steps necessary to guarantee that their organization won't be without it.

While on the surface it might sound like an oxymoron, to the vast majority of users affected by the performance of the corporate network, the issue isn’t uptime, but downtime. And this doesn’t simply refer to the actual time when network resources are down, but to user downtime, which is the much more nebulous concept of that period of time when the end user can’t get their work done. This goes far beyond the relatively simple concept of keeping the components of the corporate enterprise up and running and delves into the area of keeping the end user productive, or at least making sure that the tools that are necessary for them to be productive are always at hand.


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Backups are easy. Recovery is where the problems occur. As computer equipment has become much more powerful and sophisticated, the notion of constant availability of data has replaced the notion of being able to restore data in a short period of time. At the same time, the definition of "short period of time" has changed from a day or several days, to hours, and in some cases, minutes. Because protecting data is a given, backups will always be necessary. But the continuous availability of data is now the priority.

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System downtime is costly for any organization. This white paper provides an in-depth analysis of the reasons clusters go down and compares and contrasts the many clustering technology solutions available. Learn about the critical issues that must be considered when evaluating alternatives to a SAN clustering solution including: operating system requirements, installation and ongoing maintenance, WAN considerations for disaster recovery, cluster applications, cluster software requirements, server hardware requirements and methods of failover.

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Recent events have turned disaster recovery planning from theory into reality for many law firms. This paper looks at disaster recovery and what it means for your firm. In addition, it identifies some of the approaches that work best and draws some practical conclusions based on a Louisiana law firm’s hurricane Katrina case study that you can use to improve your own disaster recovery efforts.

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This white paper from IDC examines how true high availability provides a company's business users with continued and transparent access to applications and services, despite the underlying physical or logical failures that may occur and impact the IT infrastructure. Learn about a solution that can: detect errors along entire data path, automate switchovers, perform proactive performance monitoring and correction, maintain transparent, automatic failover, achieve point-in-time roll back, and local and remote configurations.

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The 451 Group is a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely emerging-technology insight to clients at vendor, investor, services and end-user organizations. This paper details their analysis and evaluation of Neverfail’s high availability and disaster recovery solution.

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"Be Prepared" might be an old Cub Scout motto, but those two words ring true to any disaster recovery (DR) planner. Since it's impossible to tell where, when or by what force of man or nature a disaster will strike -- it's critical in today's business environment to be prepared for everything.

Setting up, implementing and testing a good DR plan is not easy and can be a big drain on resources, time and money. Since a plan is generally perceived as a preventative measure, with little up-front business value associated, it can be overlooked by management or pushed down the task list.

This DR e-book, from content published in Storage magazine, provides hints on how to craft, implement and test your plan and -- find tips on how to sell this vision to management.

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This white paper is designed to outline the different types of disasters, both large and small, facing your organization. Learn how you can protect your company's critical applications like SQL Server by minimizing your risk to disasters with high availability solutions. This paper provides a checklist for performing risk assessment to help you determine which disasters you may be vulnerable to. Also, get a comparison of the possible methods of Disaster Recovery to get an understanding of your company's risks and the solutions available to minimize those risks. Topics covered include:

- the use of monitoring software,
- performing backups,
- replicating data,
- building fault-tolerant servers,
- traditional clustering solutions,
- and high availability solutions.

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