There was literally no downtime for the Alteeve team at the recently completed Vision Expo in Las Vegas. Our team were constantly busy demonstrating and discussing our new Anvil! Intelligent Availability platform. Lab owners and managers were quick to realize the benefit of a server platform that helped them...
Adding Value To Open Source Summit Attendees
Alteeve recently co-exhibited at Open Source Summit in Los Angeles with LINBIT, the de-facto industry standard in open-source software for High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Software-Defined Storage (SDS). Together, the companies were able to demonstrate an HA virtualization solution with over 99.9999% (six nines) uptime, a significant...
Putting The Vision In Vision Expo
The global eyecare community will come together in Las Vegas for Vision Expo on September 14. It will be a unique event focused on education, fashion and technology. Alteeve will be on hand to display and demonstrate our Anvil! server platform for optical lab managers and other lab staff....
Mission Critical Availability On Display at Open Source Summit
At the forthcoming Open Source Summit in Los Angles, Alteeve will be co-exhibiting with LINBIT, the de-facto industry standard in open-source software for High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Software-Defined Storage (SDS). The summit is going to be the place to collaborate, share information and learn about many...
Talking Technology in Ottawa
The Federal Government has some of the strictest I.T. buying guidelines of any industry. Not only must the price they pay be highly competitive, but there is also added scrutiny over data security and availability of mission critical systems. When you are serving the needs of a whole country,...
Intelligent Availability Q&A: HA without a SAN
At Alteeve, we take pride showing off the Anvil Intelligent Availability platform at trade shows and universities. This article is the first of many in which we will offer answers to some of the common questions we receive at trade shows. As an Open Source availability solution, we are...
Power and The Meaning of Uptime
According to the Ponemon Institute “2016 National Survey on Data Center Outages”, power related issues are the leading cause of unplanned outages in data centers. And the total cost of downtime is $8,851/minute according to the same report. All this comes with the growing realization that organizations rely on...
The Autonomy of Intelligent Systems
Organizations are facing many (often conflicting) challenges and decision points as they work towards building an IT infrastructure that supports their users, partners, suppliers and vendors. Chief among the challenges is preventing downtime. According to the 2016 Ponemon National Study on Data Center Outages, there are 3 major factors...
Toronto IT Infrastructure Event
The downtown Toronto IT community gathered at the iTech downtown conference and exhibition on November 16th. The event focused on Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Data Centre and Mobility. Alteeve was on hand to showcase the newly launched Intelligent Availability features of the Anvil! platform. Attendees were able to stay up-to-date on...
Not Even Noah’s Ark Was Fully Redundant
Redundancy is one of most important ways to improve the reliability and availability of a system. But it’s easy to think you have redundancy when you really don’t. The system has to be configured in such a way to deliver true redundancy. It’s a lot like Noah’s Ark –...