Neverfail Offers vAppHA Free Trial, Giving Complete 'Application-Aware' Protection for VMware vSphere(TM)

AUSTIN, Texas, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Neverfail®, a leading global software company specializing in affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that it is offering a free trial download of Neverfail vAppHA™. With this download, organizations can extend the benefits of VMware vSphere™ to protect Tier 1 applications against downtime caused by application failures, configuration and operational errors, ensuring continuous application availability for applications, such as Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL® Server and custom applications.

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The VMware vSphere platform incorporates three platform-level technologies – VMware High Availability (HA), VMware Fault Tolerance and VMware VMotion™ – that significantly improve overall system resilience and continuous availability. Neverfail vAppHA for VMware vSphere™ provides an additional level of continuous application availability by enabling failover under a variety of conditions, that can only be detected from within virtual machines. Specifically  business-critical applications are protected against the most common causes of downtime, such as application failures, service failures, performance degradation, configuration changes and user error.

"Companies that invest significantly in the VMware vSphere™ platform expect business critical applications to be always available. To achieve this it is important to monitor and take action to assure the application itself is continuously available," said Andrew Barnes, senior vice president of corporate development for Neverfail. "vAppHA integrates Neverfail's unique application-management framework with the infrastructure availability tools in VMware vSphere to detect and guard against application outages, thereby avoiding business disruption. This is critical for the end-user experience, ensuring that an organization's virtual infrastructure is protected against downtime from the application level down."

Neverfail's vAppHA has been built using Neverfail's Application Management Framework (AMF) which powers VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat, a product that provides high availability for the VMware vCenter Server management platform. Neverfail announced a  partnership with VMware in February 2009, where Neverfail's technology is used to monitor and manage the failover of VMware vCenter Server - the central control point for configuring, provisioning and managing virtualized IT environments.

Neverfail vAppHA integrates with VMware HA, VMware Fault Tolerance and VMware VMotion to provide the necessary application awareness required to deliver a complete solution for continuous application availability. It provides constant monitoring of the availability of business-critical applications and where necessary, restarts failed applications, services and virtual machines. It can also initiate VMware VMotion to restart a failed application server onto a different VMware vSphere host in the resource pool.

Benefits and features of Neverfail vAppHA include:

• Integrated with VMware vSphere™ – Neverfail vAppHA integrates with VMware HA, VMware Fault Tolerance and VMware VMotion™ to protect businesses against the impact of application-level and host-level failures.
• Automatic switchover – Neverfail vAppHA automatically works with VMware vSphere™ to switch application services over to other servers to avoid application downtime when an application failure or outage is detected.
• Protection across all layers – Neverfail vAppHA detects and remediates issues at the application eco-system level by leveraging Neverfail's existing set of application plug-ins.  In the integrated solution, VMware vSphere™ provides protection from infrastructure failures with Neverfail extending the benefits of VMware's high availability technologies to protect against application failures.

"VMware vSphere™ is well-known for its resiliency and reliability," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "Combining VMware VMotion™, VMware HA and VMware Fault Tolerance into a holistic solution provides protection against planned and unplanned downtime due to hardware or operating system maintenance or failures. We are pleased to see that Neverfail vAppHA is available for customers to further extend the availability features of VMware vSphere."

Users that register will receive a free, fully functional 60-day trial version of Neverfail vAppHA for VMware vSphere including specific protection of Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and the ability to monitor and protect against issues with the Windows operation system, file servers, IIS servers and even custom applications. The download will be available from 1st March 2010 and is accessible here: http://www.neverfailgroup.com/virtualization/vapphatrial.html

About Neverfail

Neverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions focused on keeping users productive. Neverfail's software solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail's mission of eliminating application downtime for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources. Neverfail is a member of the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Program, the Microsoft US Managed ISV Alliance Partner Program and is a member of the Microsoft SQL Server Always On Alliance. More information can be found at www.neverfailgroup.com.

Neverfail is a trademark of Neverfail Group Limited. All other trademarks, including Microsoft, Windows, and Exchange, are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2009 Neverfail Group Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means without prior express, written consent of Neverfail Group Limited.

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