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Novell, Vinca Partner to Add Leading High-Availability Software Solution to Novell Product Line with StandbyServer for NetWare/IntranetWare Novell's StandbyServer Protects Customers Against Hardware and Software Failures PROVO, Utah -- January 20, 1998 -- The leader in networking software, Novell Inc. today announced the addition of StandbyServer for the NetWare®; and IntranetWare™ platforms to the Novell product line. Novell and Vinca Corporation are partnering to make StandbyServer available as a Novell product, expanding the range of high-availability software solutions for Novell customers. Novell's StandbyServer is a software solution enabling customers to mirror data between servers, creating a fully redundant system that protects their businesses against hardware and software failures. StandbyServer for NetWare/IntranetWare advances Novell's commitment to provide customers with more flexibility and choice when implementing a high-availability networking solution. Novell and Vinca are working together to develop advanced, high-availability and clustering solutions that meet a range of customer needs for increasingly reliable, scalable and manageable networking solutions. "Novell is delivering on its promise to provide fault-tolerant solutions that help to eliminate network downtime and reduce the total cost of network ownership for our customers," said Michael Bryant, director of marketing for Novell clustering solutions. "Novell and Vinca are experienced partners delivering a higher level of system availability today. Novell's StandbyServer is a mature, proven solution that expands the complete business protection package that we can now offer directly to our customers, channel partners, and OEMs."
Protection from network downtime By allowing customers to mirror their servers, StandbyServer provides a redundant system that can instantaneously switch, or failover, to the standby machine in the event of a server hardware or software failure. The resulting high-availability solution enables organizations to reduce or eliminate server downtime, a key to keeping critical applications up and running, establishing high levels of productivity, and maintaining a competitive advantage. "StandbyServer is a strategic part of our network configuration," said Theo Ekelmans, product specialist, Unisource, a global telecommunications company. "If our network is down we are assessed substantial penalties for each minute, so we can't afford downtime. StandbyServer has enhanced our reputation for dependability and reliability as a data communications provider." "The bottom line is that StandbyServer allows us to provide better and more continuous service to our customers," said Bob Allen Adams, senior LAN/WAN analyst, United HealthCare. "It also allows us to maximize the use of our IS Staff, saving the company money that is eventually passed on to our customers."
Meeting diverse customer needs With Novell StandbyServer, customers can use any combination of NetWare-certified server hardware for the mirrored pair, eliminating the need to deploy identical servers. StandbyServer also allows customers to choose from a broad selection of non-proprietary, industry-standard LAN adapters and server interconnects including Ethernet, fast Ethernet, ATM, and FDDI. Some of these advanced networking technologies like FDDI allow for longer physical distances between the mirrored servers enabling disaster recovery for large environments such as corporate campuses. StandbyServer's flexible storage options offer support for either local mirrored disks in each server or shared-disk environments, freeing customers from the requirement to duplicate storage space. Broadly compatible with existing business networks, StandbyServer includes support for all versions of NetWare 3.12 and above as well as IntranetWare for Small Business™. The product also supports symmetric multiprocessing and all Novell-certified NetWare-Loadable Modules from Novell and third parties.
A phased approach to high availability and clustering Novell's high-availability strategy addresses customer needs at multiple levels by providing continuous network operation and data availability. Today, Novell offers a range of high availability and fault tolerant solutions. These solutions include NetWare SFT III, that Novell will continue to make available to NetWare 4.11 customers to provide non-stop, automatic recovery from server hardware failures. And with this announcement, StandbyServer provides an alternative high availability solution that is broadly applicable in application environments or situations involving mixed hardware. Novell continues to work with Vinca and other partners to enhance Novell high-availability products with technologies consistent with customer needs. Looking to the future, Novell is developing the Orion clustering solution to address availability, performance, and scalability issues for high-performance, distributed data networks. These development efforts will make data, applications, and network services available to users anytime, anywhere.
Pricing and availability Novell's StandbyServer will be listed in Novell's product catalog and will be available the beginning of February to customers through authorized Novell distribution channels. The suggested retail price is US $3999 per server pair. Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet/intranet and small- business markets, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive education and technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com. Vinca Corporation is a privately held company and creator of the StandbyServer product family, including versions for NetWare, Windows NT and OS/2 Warp. Vinca's data protection products provide server- clustering solutions for high-availability, server fail over. Vinca also offers an on-line backup system with break-through SnapShotServer technology, as well as solutions for disaster recovery. Vinca's products are designed for organizations needing increased data accessibility and reliability. The company was founded in 1990. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks. IntranetWare and IntranetWare for Small Business are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks are the property of their respective holder.
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