Jon Mechling: Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications

Key’s April Webinar featured Jon Mechling, Director of Product Marketing at Marathon Technologies in a Webinar titled Affordable Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications. During this Web-based seminar, participants learned how fault tolerance differs from high availability, the key fault and disaster tolerance issues for the Windows environment and which applications are candidates for fault tolerance. Mechling also covered how blade servers work with fault tolerant solutions and how to choose a fault-tolerant solution for Windows applications. Marathon is the leading provider of fault and disaster tolerance solutions for unmodified Windows servers and blades.

Mechling discussed achieving complete fault tolerance in the Windows environment for increased business continuity and elimination of the problems normally associated with failover. Mechling illustrated how Marathon FTvirtual Server fault-tolerant software is being used to protect mission-critical Windows applications from faults and failures.

During the Webinar, Mechling provided an overview of availability technologies, highlighting important differences between high availability and fault tolerance technologies. The Webinar also included an in-depth discussion on how to keep Windows applications running continuously through faults and disasters without the need for specialized scripting, complex failover procedures, or proprietary server hardware.
 
Both Mechling and Pete Elliot of Key, reviewed how Marathon FTvirtual Server software can provide simple, affordable, continuous uptime for unmodified Windows servers with no experience of data loss, no loss of application availability, and no need for transaction rollback.

For an archived recording of this and all past KEY Webinars, go to: http://www.keyinfo.com/resources/web_arch.htm