CA XOsoft WANSync HA High Availability

Description

As your business depends on information technology, disaster recovery becomes more vital than ever. Should a server go down for any reason, a WANSync replica will be there to take its place and allow you to keep working and your business to run without any disruptions.

Key Features

Continuous Data Protection - this feature is based on CA XOsoft's Rewind Technology that helps recovery from data corrupted by virus action or user or application error.
Ease of Installation - there is no application or user downtime, automated remote installation, and wizard-driven creation of new disaster recovery scenarios.
Tailored Support - CA offers supported based on your file server such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, file servers as well as other applications.
Push-Button Failover- auto-triggered automatic failover of all users to a standby server, which may be on the same network or across a WAN at an arbitrarily distant site.
Productive Application Monitoring - automatic monitoring, including both server availability and the state of application servers and data for supported applications like Exchange, Oracle and SQL Server.
Complete Data Replication - offers replication of all file data and metadata, including ACLs.

Supported Environments

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
Microsoft IIS webservers, file servers
Other applications on 32 and 64 - bit Windows, AIX, Linux and Solaris servers

FAQ's

Q: How can I upgrade to the most recent version of my CA product?
A: You can go to the CA website and download the trial of the most recent product.

Q: Is there government, educational, healthcare, non-profit CA pricing?
A: Yes

Q: What is the difference between CA Enterprise and Value maintenance?
A: Enterprise is 24/365 tech support and Value is 8 AM to 8 PM EST Monday thru Friday tech support.

Q: Does XOsoft support a Virtual IP shared between the master and replica so in the event of a failover, no IP address change is needed?
A: Yes it does.

Q: I have been told that XOsoft doesn't work within the same LAN, but only between different LANs. Is there any truth to that?
A: No, that is not true. XOsoft will work all within the same LAN across networks.

Q: Does XOsoft High Availability work with Informix DBM?
A: XOsoft will work with Informix. XOsoft does not have a specific Informix agent but it will work the same as backing up any type of file server.

tips, tricks and peer reviews

Productive Publishes its Newest P-Guide, Patch Management: An In-depth Look

Productive has published its newest P-Guide entitled, Patch Management: An In-depth Look. This P-Guide discusses the critical and challenging need to patch and examines the advantages and functionality of four potential solutions in the market place today; WSUS, Shavlik, BigFix and PatchLink. Read an executive summary of the article and well as download the full P-Guide here. Read more

Webinar: CDP XOsoft High Availability

Productive hosted a webinar on October 16th at 11 AM CDT to give IT professionals the opportunity to take an in-depth look into the CA XOsoft High Availability continuous data protection product. Read a sample of some the questions that were asked. Read more

Productive releases its newest P-Guide: Mid-market Software Licensing

Productive has released its newest P-Guide entitled, "Mid-market Software Licensing". In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source solutions have been emerging as potential solutions to the challenges posed by software licensing. While both have undeniable benefits, users should examine four reasons to think twice about SaaS and open source as components to critical infrastructure while taking a look an innovative new offering from Microsoft OVS. Read an excerpt from the article and learn more about the P-Guide. Read more

Productive releases its newest P-Guide: Continuous Data Protection

Productive has released its newest P-Guide entitled CDP: A Closer Look. Continuous Data Protection as an answer to mid-market data-protection needs. This month's P-Guide focuses on CDP and the mid-market IT department. Read an excerpt from the article and learn more about the P-Guide. Read more

Comparing XOsoft and DoubleTake

After comparing XOsoft and DoubleTake, I decided to move forward with XOsoft along with Assured Recovery. The extra piece of mind afforded by automatic failover option (Assured Recovery) clearly sets CA's XOsoft solution apart from all others. - Senior System Administrator, International Humanitarian Organization

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