Zero Downtime
The challenge to achieving zero downtime:
In today’s world, conducting real-time business operations 24x7 has never been more critical. Your business needs to maximize system availability and eliminate any single point of failure. Your business needs a zero downtime solution it can count on.
Outages, poor performance and even scheduled interruptions disrupt business operations, raise costs and lower customer satisfaction. Lost revenue often represents the greatest financial exposure. An hour of downtime can translate to millions of dollars in lost revenue.
System outages can also have lasting effects that damage a company's reputation - exposing it to customer defection, legal risks and regulatory penalties. Even during scheduled system downtime, it is necessary that other systems, departments, business units and partners can continue working. And, in the event of a system crash, it is important that there is no loss of data. To maximize revenue and profitability through continuous business processing, companies need to architect high availability across their enterprise and beyond - continuously servicing their business partners and customers.
The zero downtime solution:
Progress Zero Downtime powered by Progress® Sonic® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) delivers an uninterrupted flow of business critical transactions. Sonic enterprise service bus ensures instant failover and continuous processing in a way that is completely transparent to applications and end users. Even in the event of hardware, software or network failures, all in-process transactions continue - with order preserved – without delay, transaction rollback, or recovery. This means that real-time systems – whether they are interacting with customers on a website, processing fast-moving market transactions, or monitoring human safety systems – can depend on the underlying integration infrastructure, or service oriented architecture (SOA) to work all of the time.
Other benefits of the Zero Downtime powered by Sonic ESB include:
- Patented architecture that provides real-time replication of events and transactions across primary and active secondary brokers – ensuring no loss of data and proper message ordering.
- Multiple replication channels that insulate against network failures.
- Eliminating the need for RAID storage and managed OS clustering software in the messaging layer -- providing additional cost savings.
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