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MARSYS DELIVERS BUSINESS CONTINUITY WITH COLADA SOLUTION

MARSYS, a leading global provider of IT managed services and technologies, unveiled Colada 4.1, a solution designed for enterprises requiring a Business Continuity solution to manage Disaster Recovery, increase network reliability, prevent outages and minimize downtime risks. The Colada solution is designed to maintain real-time replication and synchronization of data across diverse LAN and WAN environments. Unlike traditional data replication products that require platform specific hardware to mirror data, Colada can replicate data using existing hardware and software, allowing enterprises to strengthen their ability to recover and redundantly store business-critical data while minimizing the costs associated with such an implementation.

"Business Continuity is critical to corporate enterprises today," said Neil Park, president and CEO of MARSYS. "Downtime means lost productivity and profitability. Utilizing Colada, companies can successfully deploy a costefficient and reliable Business Continuity solution that can help them prepare for unexpected situations."

MARSYS' proven world-class Disaster Recovery methodology is a key component of the company's Business Continuity solution. Leveraging Colada to create a reliable Disaster Recovery solution is quick and easy and provides instantaneous data replication and data backup. Colada 4.1 is an open platform solution and is fully compatible with the popular MySQL database adopted by more than four million users globally. Colada is also fully compatible with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

The product is easy to install, non-intrusive and more platform-independent than clustering. It quickly enables replication without the aid of clusters or other devices to create a reliable, synchronous replication of transactions across all databases within a logical pool, without affecting the performance of the system. Additionally, the solution maximizes database utilization and availability while minimizing database administration resources needed to maintain the infrastructure.

Colada 4.1 preserves data integrity and ensures that all transactions are committed in the same order across all databases. To ensure that Colada would meet Business Continuity requirements, MARSYS conducted strict data replication evaluation guidelines such as the industry-standard TPCC-Acid test and performed extensive Disaster Recovery customer cases. Additionally, stress load tests were also conducted in several LAN and WAN scenarios to ensure both data integrity and product scalability perform in the toughest environments.

Key Business Continuity features supported by Colada include:

• Local access to data while maintaining global integrity: Provides realtime replication and synchronization of data across local or wide-area networks ensuring that data integrity is maintained across all databases.

• Implementation of standby database for delayed recovery: Ability to create standby server for additional data replication redundancy.

• Maximize database utilization and availability: Prevents single point of failure and provides flexibility in configuring redundant backup.

• Automatic failover of database servers: Ability to detect component or database failure and provides automatic failover to backup database.

• Simple application level implementation: Supports most standard protocols including ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB and Net-8 and provides simple configuration console for complex databases.

• Significant database administration time savings: Manage databases from single console, add or delete databases from configuration console, start and stop individual or multiple databases from console, commit local and global database deployment, supports transaction replication in either asynchronous or synchronous modes, provides alarms and monitoring subsystem, database synchronization and supports multiple platforms.