August 29, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Clustra Systems, Inc. (clustra.com),a leading provider of always-on technology, yesterdayannounced it has joined forces with RLX Technologies(rlxtechnologies.com), a leader in high-density, energy-efficient servers, to streamline theimplementation of always-on distributed applications.The companies say the Clustra DataCenter databaseappliance, combined with the RLX products such as theRLX System 324, sets a new standard for Linux clusterdatabase solutions, enabling anyone to deploy anindustrial-strength, continuously available databasein any location in under one hour.
The Clustra/RLX solution offers improvements indeployment speed, cost, ease of use, superior density,energy efficiency and reliability. The ClustraDataCenter simplifies the installation, operation andadministration of cluster databases, and can easilyscale to up to 100 nodes to meet the most demandingapplication requirements. When deployed on the RLXSystem 324 with the high-density RLX ServerBladedesign and a few additional hardware and softwarecomponents, enterprises can quickly and easily createa complete infrastructure for fully integrated,continuously available, massively scalable distributedapplications – all in a single server rack.
“The RLX and Clustra technologies together have thepotential to close the cost and complexity gap thatuntil now has prevented high-availability clusterdatabases from being the norm rather than theexception,” said Dan Leighton, vice president ofproduct marketing at Clustra. “The two companies willbe working together to advance our common vision of aneasy and affordable infrastructure foralways-available applications.”
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