OpenText Availability
Prevent downtime and data loss with OpenText™ Availability. It continuously replicates physical, virtual and cloud systems. Having those critical systems always available protects your business and avoids disruptions. Carbonite Availability is the way you keep revenue, productivity and brand credibility up and running.
54%
of small and medium businesses have lost customers or revenue due to downtime.
Source: TechRadar, June 15, 2020
Benefits
With OpenText Availability, you can:
Continuously replicate critical systems and automate failover to either live data or to a saved point, with near-zero downtime.
Maintain duplicated physical, virtual or cloud systems at a secondary location.
Choose rapid failover and then perform failback when ready.
Achieve compliance and meet SLAs through protection of mission-critical data in your preferred environment.
Reduce risks associated with both your planned and unplanned outages.
See for yourself
Why OpenText Availability?
Whatever the reason, downtime will affect your business every year, causing direct revenue and productivity losses. On top of that, there are indirect losses like customer loyalty and user satisfaction. That’s why you need OpenText Availability.
Reduce business interruptions and data loss
Real-time, byte-level replication can provide a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of seconds.
Reduce infrastructure costs
Maintain platform independence with support for physical, virtual or cloud source and target systems.
Reduce downtime
Fight malware and data loss: recover from corruption and ransomware with snapshots
Features
OpenText Availability lets your business maximize productivity by protecting your Linux and Window servers from downtime and revenue loss:
Data encryption, in flight, between the source and the target
Data encryption, in flight, between the source and the target
Available automatic failover with server heartbeat monitor
Available automatic failover with server heartbeat monitor
Integrated DNS management
Integrated DNS management
Three tiers of compression to minimize network impact
Three tiers of compression to minimize network impact
Available bandwidth throttling options
Available bandwidth throttling options
A comprehensive API for integration with other software applications
A comprehensive API for integration with other software applications
Alert and report features for monitoring servers’ health, performing recoveries and failbacks, checking event logs and managing your license inventory
Alert and report features for monitoring servers’ health, performing recoveries and failbacks, checking event logs and managing your license inventory
Easy, non-disruptive failover testing which doesn’t impact production
Easy, non-disruptive failover testing which doesn’t impact production
How it works
Seamless automation
Automate each environment’s setup and configuration. Because OpenText Availability is intuitive, administrators don’t need a detailed understanding of applications or server configurations.
Real-time, byte-level replication
OpenText Availability captures changes at the byte-level and synchronizes data between any source and target environment: physical, virtual or cloud. The software replicates files, applications or an entire server, along with system settings.
Secure seeding
OpenText Availability configures your target secondary environments. Then for security, a seeding process replicates data, using AES 256-bit encryption and three tiers of bandwidth-saving mechanisms. After, the target is updated with any changes in real time.
Quick failovers
If there is an outage, OpenText Availability can automatically take corrective action or you can failover to a replacement server, in just minutes. A recovery point can be current or before an error took place. Or you can set an on-demand, automated failover process. Then, perform an automated failback to the original system.
Supported platforms
Operating systems:
CentOS
CloudLinux
Debian Linux
Microsoft Windows Server
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Rocky Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Ubuntu
Any hypervisor, with additional integration for:
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- VMware ESXi and vSphere
Any cloud platform, including:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Outposts
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Azure Stack Hub
VMware vCloud Director
The cost of downtime can be high:
“A successful data breach can cause substantial operational, financial and reputational damages. Public companies lose an estimated 8.6% of their value after a successful cyber breach.”
Comparitech, 2021
Resources
Availability FAQs
What is high availability used for?
What is high availability used for?
High availability makes sure systems or components remain accessible to the users and applications that depend on them. High availability is used to manage and keep critical systems and applications online, preventing downtime and revenue loss for high-traffic sites.
How do you measure high availability?
How do you measure high availability?
High availability is measured as a percentage, with 100% system availability as optimal. The measurement is often referred to the 9’s or how many 9’s of availability a system has:
- Two 9s or 99% = 3.65 days downtime per year
- Three 9’s or 99.9% = 8.76 days downtime per year
- Four 9’s or 99.99% = 52.56 minutes downtime per year
- Five 9’s or 99.999% = 5.26 minutes downtime per year
What is real time replication software?
What is real time replication software?
A high availability solution mirrors server data in real time. If there’s a server outage in a high availability environment, the secondary or replicated server becomes the source which users fail over to. Recovery time in this scenario is measured in seconds. Workloads continue to run on the secondary system until the primary server is brought back online. The entire process can be automated or event triggered.
What happened to Carbonite Availability?
What happened to Carbonite Availability?
This is the same Availability solution that customers love, just with a new name! OpenText is the parent company of Carbonite, and this change is part of our product rebranding under the OpenText umbrella.
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