Continuous Availability

 
Sandpiper’s ‘Continuous Availability’ solution protects global 2000 businesses and government agencies against catastrophic network downtime, though their operations may span continents. We ensure continuous access to corporate data, applications, and transactions despite network interruptions that would normally cripple the enterprise. Cloud infrastructure and co-location vendors have implemented this solution to ensure 100% availability for their customers.
 
We have designed the solution with the knowledge that somewhere, sometime, a disaster will affect your corporate network infrastructure.  Businesses require true continuous availability, not simply disaster recovery.  Full business operations and service levels must be maintained during and after the emergency. This is a radical departure from failover-based disaster recovery practices which trust secondary systems to take over, and then to restore functionality after the problem has been corrected. Sandpiper prevents this disaster from becoming affecting your business in the first place.
 
Your may have operations regionally, nationally or globally. Distributed infrastructures can place higher demands on IT, and may increase the risk of downtime simply because there are more potential points of failure. A flood in Louisiana, a fire in London, or scheduled downtime in Los Angeles may only affect that one location, yet make data and applications unavailable all around the globe.
 
Our approach is to enable all transactions, data feeds, and other network activities to occur equally and simultaneously on multiple secure application servers. These servers are located hundreds or thousands of miles apart so no two are affected by the same disaster.  We enable continual business continuity despite network disasters that would normally cripple the enterprise. All network servers are hot, and all are active. All transactions process in parallel and will resynchronize as needed.
 
During a five year trial period, individual data centers that had this solution installed were disrupted on five separate occasions because of hurricanes, a virus/worm attack, two migrations from server colocation providers to clouds, and a datacenter move. However, no loss of continuity, data, or transactions occurred, with all applications and information retaining 100% availability throughout. These potential disasters, which forced our servers offline, had no power to bring our applications down. Since July 2004, the Sandpiper solution has maintained true 100% application availability, with no downtime at all, for any reason.
 
Can your service provider claim this level of continuity?