Benefits by Role
Applications Group
One key factor that sets apart "business-critical" applications from the rest is the need for continuous availability. These applications simply cannot be taken offline. Every provision must be made to ensure business continuity in the event of unplanned downtime.
If you manage business-critical applications, you know the impact downtime can have on your business:
- Damage to your corporate brand
- Significant revenue loss
- Lower employee productivity
- Regulatory fines
With GRIDSCALE, you can escape the limitations of today's active-passive database environments by virtualizing your database infrastructure. GRIDSCALE uses patent-pending technology to enable commercial off-the-shelf databases to run on a cluster of commodity systems with the same or better reliability and performance as much more expensive proprietary systems. Since GRIDSCALE is an active-active solution, all the servers in the grid are accessible, fully utilized and can be dispersed geographically to mitigate disaster scenarios.
With GRIDSCALE, your business-critical applications can finally be available 24x7.
Database Administrators
If your applications need to run 24/7, chances are you have to deal with very narrow database maintenance windows and work at odd times on the weekend.
With GRIDSCALE, you can deploy a cluster of databases and take individual databases offline for maintenance while the others stay online. As you put each database back into the cluster, GRIDSCALE automatically replays the transactions the database missed. Once its data is synchronized with the other servers, GRIDSCALE automatically makes the server available for application requests.
With GRIDSCALE, you can:
- Perform rolling upgrades of databases in less time and with considerably less risk
- Improve data security by keeping your databases patched more frequently
- Eliminate the "midnight on Sunday" maintenance windows
CIOs
For business-critical applications, CIOs continue to deal with increased pressure to mitigate business and IT risks:
- 24x7 operations are global, shrinking the window for database maintenance and backup
- Businesses needs are constantly changing, which drives up the cost and complexity for business continuity
- Increasingly, customers interact with businesses via Web-based applications, and these applications require an incredibly high level of IT service
GRIDSCALE gives you the confidence to achieve service level agreements (SLAs) by allowing your business-critical databases to run in a virtualized environment. GRIDSCALE eliminates database downtime and unplanned outages.
System Architects
Many IT organizations today are trying to do more with less. However, as the business expands its requirements for its business-critical applications, system architects have to deal with increasingly complex database infrastructure to keep up with availability and performance requirements.
GRIDSCALE's horizontal scalability eliminates this problem. With GRIDSCALE you eliminate the active-passive failover infrastructure and use GRIDSCALE's data virtualization capabilities to manage a cluster of active-active databases.
As the performance and availability needs evolve, so can your data infrastructure. GRIDSCALE allows you to add servers to the cluster when they are required. The servers can run on physical servers or virtual machines.
Plus, GRIDSCALE helps prevent the data loss associated with today's "high availability" solutions.