What exactly is “High Availability?” Look around the internet and you’ll find references to global load balancing, redundant links, fault detection, fault management, and shared-nothing architecture. These are pieces of the puzzle, to be sure, but none alone constitutes a true High Availability strategy.

In short, what the High Availability brand should signify is that when your enterprise infrastructure collapses, you will have instant and immediate access to all system files, applications, and other critical data, from which you can maintain seamless business continuity. High Availability means having a live point of confluence between your data center and an offsite high availability environment.

How do you achieve this? You can make the investment to duplicate your entire hardware and system configuration at a remote site. You can replicate your enterprise on internal servers on clustered systems. A close examination of any of these methods, however, illustrates that they are either cost-prohibitive, insecure, or unevenly reliable.

Clone Systems provides a unified and straightforward strategy that effectively addresses all of these shortcomings: High Availability achieved through Managed Private Clouds.

Utilizing Private Clouds for High Availability

Conceptually, our High Availability solution is closely aligned with our Disaster Recovery model. A similar virtualized Cloud server infrastructure is used for each scenario, and the failsafe mechanisms are largely the same as well. But High Availability configurations extend the at-hand capacities available to your IT staff. A VPN tunnel or dedicated circuit allows data to be moved to the network, applications can be launched at the managed site, and replication can be performed and data moved directly to the High Availability cloud. In the event of a failure for any infrastructure component , the Cloud’s mirrored resources are instantly activated and become live.

No new hardware is required. No system load-balancing for optimizing performance and resources. After a system evaluation, Clone Systems will replicate and securely manage all the data from your enterprise on our optimized, fault-tolerant Cloud server infrastructure. And we guarantee it will be available when you need it.

Private HA Clouds - Clone Guard^® CG-HACL^®

Clone-Guard^® CG-HACL^®, Clone Systems’ High Availability solution, boasts flexibility, security, and relative simplicity unavailable from other DR platforms. No single point of failure exists in the Cloud, which assures that no catastrophic incident will make your data unavailable. Data security is maintained through its private, non-shared security configuration on our servers, together with rigorous firewall, IDS, and other ancillary security mechanisms. All site-to-site data transfers are secured with 256-bit encryption. Policy management, fault detection, and disk I/O monitoring are performed by our team of network engineers to further safeguard your Cloud. And of course your Cloud is nearly infinitely scalable, to accommodate the invariable expansion of your IT infrastructure.

All enterprises, irrespective of their size, need a reliable backup environment. Clone-Guard^® CG-HACL^® is a near invincible off-site repository for your data that requires no day-to-day administration on your part, for a single monthly fee.

Our platform, in the end, is a High Value, High Security platform; other High Availability solutions, meanwhile, may leave you with a queasy sense of High Anxiety.