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Server Mirroring: Vinca StandbyServer For NetWare/IntranetWare As network file servers evolve as an increasingly integral part of an enterprise network, often running 24x7, minimizing unexpected system downtime becomes crucial. Vinca Corp.'s StandbyServer and its unpretentious approach to server mirroring--leveraging Novell's own disk-mirroring code--lays a solid foundation for a product that is easy to understand and configure. The simple design of the NetWare console interface makes StandbyServer far easier to administer than many other products in this class. Vinca's StandbyServer is the only one we found that automatically shifted to the failed server's native version of NetWare, making the StandbyServer functionally identical to the failed machine. This can be especially important for systems running server-based applications, such as a database or mail server. What's more, backups can be run locally on the StandbyServer, which reads from the mirrored volumes across the local bus at bus speeds.
Standby Server for NetWare/IntranetWare, $3,999,
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LANtegrity 4.0 for NetWare, $6,995 (includes a 100-user license), Network Integrity, (800) 638-5518, (508) 460-6670. www.netint.com
Double-Take, $1,875 per source server,
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