High Availability

Unplanned downtime can cost your company thousands of dollars. Developing a high availability strategy can ensure that your company remains online regardless of operational, hardware or other issues. Transcend United Technologies are expert in solutions that combine real time replication along with automatic fail over capabilities to meet high availability needs. Transcend United solutions are flexible, affordable and reliable. We can enable you to meet your recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) more easily, more quickly, and less expensively than you would have ever thought possible. Some of the key benefits of Transcend United's solutions include:

• Application Agnostic Protection
• Real Time Replication
• No Limitations for Distance of Replication
• Virtualization Options at the Production or Failover Site

Transcend United's solutions are designed to work with most mission critical applications:

• Exchange
• Blackberry
• SharePoint
• Microsoft SQL Server
• And more...

What Should I Consider When Developing a High Availability Strategy?

Clearly defined goals are crucial to developing a successful high availability strategy.  Transcend United will work with you to determine what solutions best fit your business needs. Some of the standard considerations include:

Review Service Level Agreements (SLA) - What are the guidelines that you have committed to internal and external customers? Are they in terms of minutes, hours or days?

Understand How Much Downtime Costs - Evaluate how much money it costs your business per minute of downtime. Be sure to evaluate both the monetary costs as well as employee productivity costs.

Understand the Political Nature of Downtime - How long is acceptable to your user community to be without access to systems?

How Flexible are Transcend United's High Availability Solutions?

Transcend United understands that our customers’ high availability solutions need to be flexible. As your business needs change, our solutions are designed to allow your company to continue be productive and prosper. Flexibility is just one of the multiple benefits offered by our high availability solutions.

Application Agnostic – Use your existing hardware to protect your applications. Eliminate the need to incur hardware expenses to support your data protection needs.

Real Time Data Protection – Data replication occurs at the byte level rather than copying the entire file. Only incremental changes are replicated which significantly increases the speed that changes can be sent. Data is sent using any secure shared or private IP network. The end result is that data is sent securely and can be restored quickly.

Continuous Data Protection – Using a target and source server, a communication process continuously occurs to exchange data from the source to the target. The target server monitors the health of the source server and is ready at any point to take the production load in the event the target software identifies an issue with the source server. This will allow you to inherit a seamless working environment by implementing failover capabilities that will have your business back online in seconds. At any point, another server is ready to take on the production load and provide a transparent switch from the production to the failover site.

No Limitations for Distance on Replication– Replication can occur over any distance using any secure shared or private IP network.

Virtualization Options For Failover Site – By utilizing virtualization at Transcend United's secure managed hosting facility as your failover site, an exact replica of servers does not need to be purchased. One virtual machine can run all of your applications as if they were each running on an independent piece of hardware.

How Do I Get Started?

One of the biggest benefits of working with Transcend United  for high availability solutions is that it is quick and simple to get started. A Transcend United consultant will work with you to help understand your data replication needs and setup an environment. Contact us to learn how we can provide application security with real time replication and automatic failover capabilities to keep your company online.