SharePlex® Reduces Planned Downtime

A planned outage is still an outage. It comes out of your service levels, your customer satisfaction, and to some, even your market capitalization. We estimate that 80% of outages are due to planned downtime.

Using SharePlex®, you can nearly eliminate this downtime — regardless of what the maintenance is, regardless of which operating system is affected, even regardless of the database version and what is being done to the hardware.

Like clustering technologies that enable maintenance on one server in a cluster, SharePlex extends this to all servers. In addition to duplicated servers this also includes maintenance on the database. Therefore planned maintenance activities around the operating system, database and hardware no longer require extensive downtime. This is a game changer for many businesses. Previously, the change of Oracle block size was unthinkable due to the extensive downtime required to perform a complete export and import. Keeping your database versions current is often a challenge, as outages are not welcome by your customers. SharePlex changes all of this. The architecture is very similar to that employed in migrations except it flips between servers routinely as opposed to one-shot change.