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Neverfail Group Launches Latest Release of 'Cluster-Class' High Availability Solution for Microsoft Platform Applications MS Exchange, MS SQL Server and MS File Server

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2004--The Neverfail Group, a leading global high availability and disaster recovery software company today announced version 4.1 of the Neverfail Heartbeat product suite, a 'cluster-class,' high availability software solution for Microsoft Platform applications that provides protection for MS Exchange, MS SQL Server and MS File Server on Microsoft 2000 and 2003 operating systems.
The Neverfail Heartbeat software solution is positioned for any size organization, whether an SME or a global enterprise, and presents a simple and effective solution to protect against the cost and damage caused by unplanned application downtime.

Neverfail Heartbeat is the first software suite to take a holistic view and consider the real implications of downtime -- the impact on the business, customers and suppliers when end-users are unable to use applications from their desk. While backups, replication and clustering address certain aspects and certain failures, the Neverfail approach looks at the whole application stack: the data, the system (server and operating system), the network and the application itself. Failures in any one component of the stack can lead to end-user experienced downtime and it is this single point of failure that Neverfail Heartbeat addresses.

Neil Robertson, CEO of the Neverfail Group, comments, "We have set out to offer 'out of the box' support for any application that runs on the Microsoft technology platform. This announcement is a significant step toward that goal with the recent release of Neverfail for SQL Server applications. This release enables Neverfail Heartbeat high availability to be made available to the significant majority of software applications that utilize MS SQL Server with little to no effort from the application provider."

Robertson continues, "The pervasiveness of IT and its importance to business cannot be questioned. What can be questioned is a company's reliance on IT infrastructure that is prone to downtime, impacting productivity, revenue and reputation. We have found that businesses are increasingly demanding high availability solutions, but not at the cost of further complicating their existing infrastructure."

Robertson explains, "Simplicity is the key. This new approach once added to the core functionality aimed at keeping the user connected to a live application rather than just replicating data, makes Neverfail Heartbeat a realistic and affordable solution."

Neverfail Heartbeat is the underlying technology engine that provides functionality and application high availability. Through an approach based upon using interconnected, redundant servers, the solution protects these applications against a range of commonly occurring faults, including application failures, operation system failures and site failures.

Neverfail reduces downtime by:

-- Monitoring - the whole application environment to ensure all components are working.

-- Recovering - from errors in individual components without the need to failover to a secondary system.

-- Replicating - the whole application environment, including data, application, system and even registry information to ensure that there is no single point of failure in the solution.

-- Switchover - in the event of major problem, from a primary server to a secondary in a controlled fashion to ensure no data loss and minimum downtime.

-- Failover - in the event of a catastrophic failure, rapidly bringing the application up on a secondary server and getting end-users up and running again.

-- Switchback - after a Switchover or Failover recovering back to the original production state requires no manual effort or system outage.

The Neverfail solution is sold internationally through Neverfail's channel partner program. For more information on Neverfail Heartbeat, Neverfail for Exchange, Neverfail for SQL Server, Neverfail for File Server or on Neverfail's international Partner program, please visit www.neverfailgroup.com.

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(tm) is a registered trademark of the Neverfail Group plc and all other trademarks are acknowledged.

Contacts


Neverfail Inc., Austin
Ursula Talley, 512-327-5777
utalley@neverfailgroup.com
or
The itpr Partnership (UK)
Jo Timmins or Dan Roche, +44 (0)1932 57 88 00
jot@itpr.co.uk
www.itpr.co.uk

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