xkoto, Inc.
GRIDSCALE Active-Active Technology for DB2
Compatible OS:Linux, UNIX, Windows
Compatible IBM Software:IBM DB2
Businesses today continue to grapple with an age-old problem: how to deliver nonstop access to business-critical data stored in DB2 databases. Application downtime can have a significant impact on your business – revenue loss, lower employee productivity, regulatory fines and worse, damage to your corporate brand.
Most organizations use costly, isolated or clustered SMP boxes to provide some measure of availability. Unfortunately these “high availability” (HA) technologies were designed for fail-over, not 24×7 availability. They do not allow IT to perform maintenance on their databases without downtime. As a result, IT organizations are forced to maintain expensive active-passive systems and resort to planned downtime to keep databases up-to-date.
With GRIDSCALE from xkoto, you can escape the limitations of today’s active-passive database environments by virtualizing your database infrastructure. Backed by IBM’s global support organization, GRIDSCALE for DB2 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 implement cost-effective DR solutions.
FEATURES & BENEFITS
- CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY - By sharing the load across multiple servers, the loss of any one server does not have an impact on the availability of DB2.
- HORIZONTAL SCALABILITY - GRIDSCALE lets you scale application load horizontally across low-cost servers and virtual machines.
- Maintain DB2 Servers – Because GRIDSCALE supports different versions of DB2 in the same cluster, you can reuse existing hardware and perform database upgrades without incurring an outage.
- APPLICATION TRANSPARENCY – GRIDSCALE uses standard interfaces to control communication between applications and underlying databases. GRIDSCALE supports DB2-certified JDBC, ODBC and CLI drivers.
- COST-EFFECTIVE DR – GRIDSCALE allows database servers to span multiple, geographically dispersed data centers. As a result, you can ensure that your DR database is always up-to-date.
