Sybase Announces General Availability Of Openswitch To Provide Continuous Availability For The Portal-Ready Environment
Sybase, Inc. announced the general availability of Sybase OpenSwitch 12.0, a transparent solution that provides end-users with continuous application availability in the event of unplanned outages or planned downtime. A scalable solution, OpenSwitch 12.0 provides load balancing and re-routing of client connections to multiple servers, while offering users a central point of management for application configuration.
OpenSwitch 12.0 provides end-users with continuous availability - key to Sybase's Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) strategy- via a transparent solution, enabling enterprise customers to provide application availability to the end-user 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Designed to enhance throughput, scalability, and reliability, OpenSwitch 12.0 is customizable to the customer's environment for creating an intelligent high-availability fail-over environment. In addition, the customer is not required to change existing application code to leverage the product.
"OpenSwitch 12.0 meets the specific demands of our customers operating in the e-Business market," said Billy Ho, Vice President, Product and Solutions Operations, Enterprise Solutions Division, "Sybase is dedicated to providing cost-effective solutions by offering continuous availability to customers without change to their existing applications. With Open Switch, we accomplish this by providing automatic client-side reconnection in a fail-over situation."
"The Standish Group believes the Internet economy requires continuous database availability," said Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group, Dennis, MA. "A reasonable high availability environment for the Internet requires that the end-user never know a failure occurred. Sybase has a product called OpenSwitch, which provides for transparent connection fail-over without programming or re-programming the application."
Designed to monitor connections, OpenSwitch 12.0 sits between a client and a server. Client connections to a database server pass through OpenSwitch 12.0, and in the event of a server failure, are transparently transferred to a backup server.
OpenSwitch 12.0 will integrate with Sybase's portal-ready database, Adaptive Serverâ Enterprise 12.0 - scheduled to be released later this quarter - and complements its High Availability option. In addition, OpenSwitch 12.0 is easily integrated with prior versions of Adaptive Server Enterprise and Sybase SQL Server to provide this client-side functionality to customers who have not yet migrated to Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.0.
Sybase's OpenSwitch 12.0 is currently available on Solaris and Windows NT platforms. The solution is scheduled to be available on HP-UX and IBM-AIX later this quarter. Pricing for OpenSwitch 12.0 starts at $2500 per Server and $250 per Seat.
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