Emic Application Cluster Adds High Availability And Load Balancing To Xserve G5

Emic Networks today announced that it will be adding support for Mac OS X to Emic's Application Cluster (EAC) products for Apache and MySQL servers. EAC application clustering products are designed to provide best price/performance cluster platform for horizontal scaling of web applications. EAC scales economically from small and medium size environments to high-end server platform environments. EAC's benefits include performance scalability and load balancing, fault tolerance and continuous availability with fast fail-over, and centralized cluster management.

"The network continues to be a mission critical business system for organizations of all sizes. XServe G5 is the ideal server for cross-platform file and print, workgroup management, video streaming, database applications, high-performance computing, and web and mail serving, " said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Emic Networks. "With Emic Application Cluster, you now can add application cluster to this list. It allows Xserve customers to achieve greater scalability and reliability with the industry's fastest synchronous replication."

"The Xserve G5 is affordable, easy to manage and delivers unparalleled performance with up to 30 gigaflops of processing power per system," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "The addition of Emic Application Cluster makes the Xserve G5 a perfect solution for high availability Web sites."

If you are interested in testing the Emic Application Cluster, when it is available, you can register at http://www.emicnetworks.com/.