Kabira Introduces Next Generation High Availability Transaction Systems
Kabira HA 2.0 Makes Disaster-Tolerant 5-Nines Platform Available on Open Systems Hardware
San Mateo, CA – December 5, 2006 – Kabira Technologies Inc., a leader in high performance transaction processing software for global enterprises, today announced the second generation of the Kabira High Availability (HA) Platform for disaster-tolerant real-time applications. This latest HA offering from Kabira is designed to be the most robust, fastest HA offering the company has made available to date, running HA applications approximately 75 percent faster than earlier versions on the same hardware. With Kabira HA, enterprise customers can achieve carrier class 5-Nines availability on open systems hardware, a result previously achievable only by proprietary mainframe systems. Kabira HA is designed for failures to be transparent to users, because there is no interruption of work, no transactions are lost and there is minimal degradation in performance.
“Kabira HA has been thoroughly tested and proven by large enterprises, and we are proud to say that there has not been a single reported transaction failure in real world production environments,” said Dirk Epperson, vice president of Strategic Planning and co-founder of Kabira. “Kabira HA 2.0 builds on that success providing faster and more robust high availability at low cost, making it a clear alternative to massive proprietary mainframes or disk-intensive clusters.”
Kabira HA has been enhanced to achieve higher throughput and increased speed, reducing the amount of network traffic between highly available nodes by almost 50 percent and achieving approximately 75 percent increase in throughput. In addition, the solution now supports multiple network connections between highly available nodes to enable network redundancy.
Kabira HA can maintain transactions-in-flight, has no hardware or database dependencies, and requires no special programming to achieve mission-critical HA on a scalable, open platform. Leveraging the asynchronous capabilities of an event-driven-architecture, Kabira HA is designed to inherently monitor the system at the event level providing full coverage for transactions-in-flight, while preventing data loss. In addition to simplified coding, the lower overhead of this memory resident architecture reduces the latency of failure recovery, providing earlier failure detection and fast rollback and restart.
