The two companies announced their plans to develop a version of IRIS FailSafe for high-availability applications in Linux environments.
High availability is an important piece of the puzzle.
Having this technology available for Linux will be very important to companies that use Linux in production environments. FailSafe running on Linux will enable a user to link two or more servers together so that one transparently picks up the computing load should the other fail. An IRIS FailSafe cluster running on Linux will remove any single point of failure and allow applications to increase availability to the level required for mission-critical data center operations. This failover capability is an important component of the maturation of Linux in an enterprise computing environment. In addition to the resulting product, the two companies will bring valuable expertise to the Open Source community through their combined experience and talent.