Iomega booth at CeBit 2012 in Hannover Germany

Iomega Virtualization Solutions

Regardless of the size of your business, you require an IT infrastructure that is continuously available. You rely on your network servers to share your business-critical files, applications, and data, as well as to host your email and Web environments. Any problem with server hardware or a critical application means unplanned downtime and a loss of productivity—costing you time and money.

 

“Five nines” availability (99.999% uptime) indicates a maximum annual downtime of just 5 minutes and 35 seconds. Large companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars—even millions—on systems that ensure this kind of availability. Achieving high availability (HA) requires multiple redundant servers, which are configured in such a way that a secondary server takes over all functionality in the event that the primary server fails.

 

While small businesses face many of the same challenges as larger businesses, the cost of HA is prohibitive. As a result, most small- and medium-sized businesses simply “make do” with what they have, and deal reactively with outages when they occur— putting their network assets at risk for a catastrophic failure.

 

INCREASING AVAILABILITY FOR SMBS

 

Iomega® and VMware® have partnered to develop the ideal solution to this quandary, making it easy and affordable for small- and medium-sized businesses to build and manage a highly available* IT environment. Unlike a traditional HA infrastructure, which requires a duplicate of each server in the environment and enterprise-grade routers and switches to effectively manage all network traffic, Iomega and VMware’s solution, called Unstoppable ComputingTM, provides the same type of functionality for a small business environment, using as few as two servers. With Unstoppable Computing, a small business can:

 

Have a highly available infrastructure, for increased server and application uptime

Employ leading virtualization technology, which enables your entire network infrastructure to be run on one physical server

Protect its business-critical data with proven storage technology

Benefit from automatic failover, for a “no touch” solution to get itself back up and running

UNSTOPPABLE COMPUTING

 

Unstoppable Computing provides the ideal solution for small- and medium-sized businesses to ensure business continuity and increased availability of their business-critical infrastructure, at an affordable price. Combining their best-of-breed solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, VMware and Iomega can help small businesses minimize their downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages. Comprised of two physical servers, virtualization software, and a network storage device, Unstoppable Computing completely automates network failover in the event of an outage.

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