Mission Critical Linux LLC Clustering Solution

Mission Critical Linux LLC announced its plans to roll-out Linux clustering solutions targeted at the financial transaction market. With the impending release of this high-availability server solution, Mission Critical Linux reinforces its strong technology leadership position in the Linux marketplace, and continues to deliver sophisticated system management tools for its enterprise customers. By meeting the unique data integrity requirements of financial services firms, the banking industry, and e- businesses, the Company demonstrates its expertise in building high-availability Linux infrastructure solutions.

All businesses need their computing environment to be high-performing, secure and reliable. To that end, companies turn to clustering offerings, which extend and improve the availability of servers and applications. However, the Linux clustering solutions that are available today address mostly the general purpose high-performance computing needs of these enterprises, meaning that they improve the computing time of their transactions without addressing potential data corruption risks. Companies in the financial transaction business require high-availability systems that ensure data integrity at every step of the financial transactions. Mission Critical Linux is developing a full-support turnkey clustering solution which meets the requirements for strong data integrity and highly-available data and applications, by focusing on shared infrastructure on commodity hardware.

"High-availability solutions that concentrate on data integrity have been missing from the Linux enterprise offerings," said Vernon Turner, vice president of Worldwide Commercial Systems & Services at International Data Corporation. "Mission Critical Linux is stepping up to the challenges of delivering enterprise solutions engineered to meet specific customer requirements."

Recognizing the development scope of the Open Source community, such as the Linux-HA project and the Linux Virtual Server, Mission Critical Linux is leveraging key components of these projects and is concentrating on identifying and resolving data integrity issues through software solutions and commodity hardware, thereby bringing a total turnkey solution to market at cost-effective price points. As a result, the Company is able to ensure the highest level of availability well within the financial services industry requirements for service levels and total cost of ownership.

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Mission Critical Linux plans to release their MCL Cluster for Financial Services in June 2000, with a 2-node cluster. All of Mission Critical Linux service offerings and consulting services may be customized to meet a customer's individual operating needs and to reflect the complexity and scope of the customer's computing environment.

About Mission Critical Linux LLC

Mission Critical Linux is a professional services organization providing Fortune 1000 companies with enterprise-wide support for their Linux computing environments. The Company successfully combines Web-enabled diagnostic and system management tools with expert engineering support for all major Linux distributions across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Mission Critical Linux is headquartered in Lowell, MA, and can be reached at www.missioncriticallinux.com or at 877-53LINUX or 978-446-9166.

Contact Mission Critical Linux Bonnie Lupis, 978-446-9166 lupis@missioncriticallinux.com.