UNIVERSAL HIGH AVAILABILITY

Why does each environment need a separate HA System?

The Challenge:

Poor capital sharing. Lack of failover and production hardware matching. Increasing complexity.

In today's enterprise environments, IT failure recovery is essential. But when it comes to failure recovery, capital inefficiency and opportunity costs are high due to little-or-no sharing of a capital failover pool. Moreover, failover hardware typically has to match production hardware, which reduces capital efficiency and costs even more. Add to that "siloed" failover systems, distinct for physical clusters as well as for virtualized systems, and you have increasing complexity that is difficult and costly to manage.

The Cassatt Solution:

Cassatt Active Response—Implicit fault correction. Automatic environment recovery. Inherent disaster recovery.

With Cassatt Active Response, your physical, virtual, failover and production systems are all part of a singularly controlled, shared pool of resources. These resources are dynamically allocated according to pre-defined service level agreements.

Whether failover occurs on one machine or across many, Cassatt Active Response manages the incidents identically. Cassatt Active Response can allocate and re-provision new physical and/or virtual machines from bare metal within minutes, regardless of machine locations on the VLAN.

For example, a datacenter may have a variety of hardware platforms allocated to a series of application services - some of which run on virtual machines, and others which are native. A partial power failure will cause all of these services to go down. However, Cassatt Active Response will automatically detect an "out of SLA" condition for each service, and, per pre-determined priority: allocate new "bare-metal" free-pool hardware; provision the hardware with appropriate software and VMs (if necessary); allocate the hardware to the appropriate network; re-start the services.

The Business Value:

Increased capital efficiency.

Cassatt Active Response can remove the need for multiple distinct failover systems for differing classes of machines, including those for physical and virtual application instances. And, by providing fail-over to a pool of bare-metal hardware, capital efficiency is increased.