Computer Associates International Inc is going after the NT-based small to mid-sized business market with a product called SurviveIT, which maintains companies’ system availability by replicating data to secondary servers. SurviveIT is aimed at firms from 10 to 1,500 employees which run their software on Windows NT and it requires no special hardware, which CA thinks will make it attractive for SMEs.
Three versions of Unix for SurviveIT, those of HP, Sun, and IBM, are now in development and will be ready in early 2000, according to CA’s product marketing manager for storage Allan Mohes. The NT edition is available from July 1 at a price of $2,495.
SurviveIT is predicated on three technologies that CA has patented, claims Mohes. The first is an ability to replicate data when a file is open, while the second minimizes bandwidth use by sending only the data that changes. The third technology checks whether transactions are complete before sending partial documents which may corrupt the secondary server.
