High Availability

HIGH AVAILABILITY SOLUTIONS TO MINIMIZE AND PREVENT SYSTEM DOWNTIME

High availability is essential in today’s business world. With 24/7 access to information, a failure in your computer system can cost your business a considerable amount of time and money.

At Lighthouse, we understand the value of keeping your business systems available to customers and employees. Lighthouse offers failover server clustering and network load balancing solutions to ensure your system has the resources to quickly recover from disruptions caused by component failures, application or user errors, and natural disasters.

Lighthouse implements high availability solutions for the following platforms: IBM p series (AIX, formerly System p), Linux, IBM i series (OS/400, formerly System i), and MS Windows. Whether you have servers located in one site or multiple data centers, our solutions are designed to help you:

Minimize and prevent the impact of system downtime
Protect against outages caused by network failures
Assist in disaster recovery
Increase Scalability
Manage application availability across data centers
Comply with service level agreements (SLA)

You can protect against system failures through data replication and failover processing. Data replication automatically and continuously distributes changes to a remote secondary server. When a server failure is detected, the backup server can quickly kick in and continue offering service.

Another challenge in managing systems is to ensure that good performance is maintained even during peaks in transaction rates. Network load balancing works to manage large amounts of incoming traffic. By creating an NLB cluster, you will be able to transparently distribute client requests across a number of servers.

In addition to utilizing High Availability solutions provided by IBM and Microsoft, we also have expertise with solutions from Veritas and Double-Take.

Lighthouse offers ongoing support following the implementation of our high availability solutions. We provide educational materials, comprehensive on-site training, and customized classes based on infrastructure and environment.

For more information or to schedule a no-cost initial consultation, please contact info@lighthousecs.com or call 401-334-0799.