Zero Downtime
The Challenges:
In this fast-paced, competitive world, conducting real-time business operations 24x7 has never been more important. Feeling the pressure, 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 scheduled interruptions disrupt business operations, raise costs and lower customer satisfaction. Typically, lost revenue represents the greatest financial exposure, where an hour of downtime can translate to millions of dollars in lost revenue for industries such as airlines and financial services.
System outages can have a long-lasting effect that damages a company's reputation, exposing it to customer defection and ongoing legal risks such as lawsuits and regulatory penalties. During scheduled system downtime, it is necessary that other systems, departments, business units and partners can continue working. Furthermore, in the event of a system crash it is extremely 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, thereby continuously servicing their business partners and customers.
The Solution:
For your business applications that demand high levels of availability, the Progress Zero Downtime Solution powered by Progress® SonicMQ® will deliver an uninterrupted flow of business critical transactions. Only the Zero Downtime solution can instantly failover and resume 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, and there's no delay, transaction rollback, or recovery required at all. 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 infrastructure to work all of the time.
Other benefits of the Zero Downtime solution powered by Sonic MQ include:
- Patent-pending architecture that provides real-time replication of events and transactions across primary and active secondary brokers (hot/hot scenario), thereby insuring no loss of data and proper message ordering.
- Multiple replication channels that insulate against network failures.
- Eliminates need for RAID storage and managed OS clustering software in messaging layer, providing additional cost savings.
