Survive IT 2000 is a standalone product, providing continuous access to live data while a failed server is repaired to avoid the problems and expense associated with operational downtime. It does not provide archiving, disaster recovery or hierarchical storage management. Survive IT 2000 functions completely independent of any other application and requires no additional hardware or software. Unlike other replication or mirroring products, Survive IT 2000 addresses high-availability, data replication and server protection in a more intuitive way. This makes synchronization and replication faster and more flexible, enabling Survive IT 2000 to provide file-based transactional integrity.
Online synchronization is transparent to users.
Other replication products require dedicated access either to individual files or to the whole server. With Survive IT 2000, normal business continues uninterrupted while server synchronization is established. Survive IT 2000 provides transparent failover of shares. Other replication products may require separate share failover specification as well as the share to reside on the same drive letter. They may even require share names to be unique across servers.