With IT systems becoming ever more mission critical, business continuity has become an important topic that cannot be overlooked. IT systems are now often used in ways that they were not initially planned for; for example email is now used to pass critical information such as contracts and orders and the loss of a single email could have an enormous impact on business. Even short outages can bring a whole office to a halt, unable to carry out even the simplest of tasks such as answering customer queries. This in turn can cost large amounts of money, but more importantly can ruin company reputations.

There are various options available to ensure high-availability, but many of these are often extremely expensive and difficult to implement and maintain. Often until a company has been through the distress of a loss of service for a period of time, or worse the loss of data, it is difficult to justify the costs of implementing an expensive system simply in case of a disaster.

Neverfail Heartbeat software different from other offerings. It is an easy to manage system that does not require complex or expensive hardware. Installation can be carried out over a short period of time with little of loss of service to users. On top of this the system gives more than simple disaster recovery as it proactively ensures 24/7 business continuity regardless of the cause of failure.

The Neverfail Group's easy-to-use and highly affordable software solutions:

• Utilize a secondary server to ensure that, in the event of a failure or planned maintenance, services to the user are never reduced or eliminated;
• Feature a proactive monitoring process that evaluates the health of the primary server hardware, all aspects of the network and applications; 
• Dynamically fix potential problems before they can cause system crashes; 
• Require minimal IT skills to manage and operate.

Neverfail's cluster-class high availability solutions allow companies of all sizes to keep users and applications connected at all times and eliminate the negative impact of business downtime.

Technical Details

Neverfail Heartbeat replicates the complete application environment to a secondary server to ensure no single point of failure. Neverfail constantly monitors your application and underlying system and proactively manages application or component failures. If a problem occurs, Neverfail can either fix the problem or switch-over to the secondary system.

In the event of a major system failure, Neverfail will immediately detect the absence of the primary server, will failover, and restart the protected application on the secondary server, continuing service provision without impacting end-users.

Moreover, Neverfail can be used as a tool to enable operations that would previously have required downtime to now be carried out without user interuption. Now system patching or hardware maintenance can be carried out during working hours rather than overnight or at weekends.