The Neverfail Group Launches New Low Bandwidth Module to Enhance Data Protection and Application Failover

Business Wire, Nov 4, 2004

AUSTIN, Texas -- New Module Reduces Networking Cost and Increases Application Availability, Both in a LAN and WAN Environment

The Neverfail Group (Neverfail), a leading global software company providing affordable, "cluster-class" high availability and disaster recovery solutions for the Microsoft technology platform, today announced the release of their Low Bandwidth Module (LBM). The LBM reduces bandwidth requirements and associated networking costs by up to 66%, thereby allowing businesses of all sizes to deploy an affordable disaster recovery solution.

Businesses are highly dependent on electronic data processing in their daily activities, and continuous application availability is an operational pre-requisite. Additionally, an increasing focus on legislation and regulations requires companies to have disaster recovery procedures in place. The cost of downtime is significant to businesses in terms of lost productivity and revenue, as well as damage to customer confidence.

The most important consideration for organizations wanting to provide highly available applications, and ensure business continuity during a site failure, is the ability to protect their data and create a real-time failover environment. The challenge to date has been the prohibitive cost of bandwidth.

Neil Robertson, CEO of Neverfail, comments, "A recent survey Neverfail commissioned highlighted a remaining misconception in the industry that high availability solutions are expensive or even extortionate, with 71 percent of respondents citing prohibitive cost as the primary reason for inaction. However, this is simply no longer true -- nor is it a valid reason for continued inaction."

Neverfail's Low Bandwidth Module (LBM) enables businesses to reduce the cost of cluster-class high availability in a LAN or WAN environment by optimizing data transmission, thereby reducing bandwidth usage between an organization's active and passive servers and reducing the overall total cost of ownership.

Neverfail's LBM provides businesses with the following benefits:

--Reduced network costs, particularly in a WAN/extended network environment

--Reduced data transmission times between servers -- by up to 66%

--Enhanced data protection

--Faster switchover time between active and passive servers in the event of a failure

--Improved application response time

Robertson continues, "Neverfail provides highly effective, real-time data replication -- guaranteeing high availability at a fraction of the cost of other industry alternatives. Neverfail LBM continues to drive down that cost. It is evident that companies can gain significant advantage through securing their applications and networks, and we know that this is now achievable at a realistic and commercially justifiable cost."

About the Neverfail Group

The Neverfail Group is a leading global software company providing affordable, "cluster-class," high application availability and disaster recovery software solutions for the Microsoft technology platform. Neverfail's software solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail's mission of eliminating application downtime for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources.

Neverfail is a trademark of Neverfail Group Limited. All other trademarks, including Microsoft, Windows and Exchange, are trademarks of their respective companies. (C) 2004 Neverfail Group Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means without prior express, written consent of Neverfail Group Limited.