Jerry Melnick

Last week at VMworld we demonstrated our everRun VM Lockstep Option for Citrix XenServer 5. Despite the decrease in foot traffic on the show floor, the turnout was much higher than expected. High airline prices (or possibly just the Vegas night life :)) may have kept some people away, but we presume our high turnout was a result of the increase in innovative sessions and seminars. For those of you who weren’t able to attend or were there but didn’t get an up-close look at our everRun VM Lockstep demo, Michael Keen (a.k.a. C1tr1xguru) shot this video of our CTO, Jerry Melnick, giving an in-depth demonstration of system-level fault tolerance for virtual environments. Thanks for stopping by Michael. Our demonstration gave visitors an inside look at all three levels of availability: 1. XenServer HA: Level One: Failover High Availability standard with XenServer 5 Ente... (more)

Q&A: Windows Server High Availability

Thanks again to those who joined us for last week’s webinar, "Windows Server 2008 High Availability: Technology Comparison." The on-demand recording of last week's webinar is now available to watch at your convenience (here). We had a lot of good questions from our attendees during the Q&A portion of the webinar, which are summarized below. Q: How do you determine when to use an HA solution vs. a DR solution? When it comes to availability vs. recovery, the most important question to ask is what are your recovery time objectives (RTO)? What is the amount of time your application c... (more)

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009

A couple of weeks ago Gartner released their “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009.” Each technology is defined as, “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.” The technologies listed have been available for quite some time – many of which were present on last year’s list – but one that continues to move up in rank is virtualization. Considering the state of the economy, we anticipate this to be an area that will continue to flourish over the next 12-24 months as virtualization technology becomes feasible for businesses of all siz... (more)

Healthcare: An Industry Looking to Use Server Virtualization for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

For healthcare organizations and their IT departments, almost everything is mission critical, from patient information to registration systems and records management. Information needs to be readily available and data has to protected at all times to avoid compliance risk or calamitous consequences. From what we’ve seen, the interest in virtualization for high availability and disaster recovery is driven by two key factors: cost savings and greater demand for 24x7 availability of health records. Like so many organizations in this tough economy, health care providers are under tre... (more)

Q & A for the April 29th webinar: Premier Showing - New everRun 2G Demo

We received over a hundred questions during the Q & A session of our April 29th webinar where we covered our new everRun technology. I've posted the questions and respondes here for everyone's benefit. Q: Level 3 will support 2 Socket Processors? A: A level-3 protected workload must be single-CPU configurations. With the ability to now support multiple workloads with everRun 2G, multiple single-CPU workloads can be protected at level-3 on the same pair of servers, allowing utilization of multi-processor systems. Q: How does everRun handle custom application? From the answer, it onl... (more)