Interactive Ideas Reseller Guide Issue 1: 2011

Q&A Solarwinds The Failover Engine Adam Nash SolarWinds Product Manager, Interactive Ideas SolarWinds have now implemented a tried and tested robust failover module to the Orion suite taking the solution to the next level as a true enterprise class monitoring solution. Performance Monitor NPM, the Network Configuration Manager and Application Monitor are chargeable failover modules. The Failover Engines for all other modules are free of charge. Q: What kind of technology is the Failover Engine built on? A: The FoE is designed using Neverfail technology. Neverfail also provide resiliency for VMware and Microsoft so this is a tried and tested solution that works data that was being collected by one of the modules (Application, NetFlow or Network Config Mgr) would get missed. The new Failover Engine covers all of the modules that SolarWinds provide for the Orion suite. It uses replication technology so that it replicates the core monitoring platform down to the IP address of the servers so that your network does not need to be reconfigured when the failover solution takes over. The switch is seamless. All data is replicated to the backup server and then when the primary server fails the backup server takes over within 2 minutes. Q: What is the Failover Engine (FoE)? A: The Orion Failover Engine (FoE) monitors the health of your Orion server to ensure you never lose network performance visibility. If something should happen to your primary Orion server, Orion FoE automatically fails over to a remote server. The passive failover server assumes the full identity of the Orion server and assumes all monitoring, alerting, reporting, and data collection responsibility. Orion FoEs switchover is an automatic, seamless process to ensure Orion data collection continuity and is completely transparent to the user. Orion FoE is an ideal disaster recovery solution for networks that demand high availability and performance. Q: What type of environment would benefit from the FoE? A: Typically we are seeing this solution implemented by customers in environments that demand high availability. This is typically the banking, telecoms, health, manufacturing and Police sectors where the network is critical to the business functioning properly. Q: Does the FoE cover the whole suite of Orion products? A: The FoE has been designed to offer failover for not just the Orion Network Performance Monitor but also the modules that are installed on the Orion server. This means that regardless of the modules you have implemented they will be covered by the FoE. SolarWinds offer Failover for the whole Orion suite but only the Network Orion FoE is an ideal disaster recovery solution for networks that demand high availability and performance in high end, enterprise environments. Neverfail also provide a failover solution for the underlying SQL database that all of your Orion data is stored in. This means you have complete peace of mind knowing that you have no single point of failure for your monitoring platform. Q So what is the difference between the new Failover Engine and the old Hot Standby Engine? A: The Hot Standby Engine (The old DR/resiliency solution for the SolarWinds Orion platform) was purely there to take over when either Orion or one of the Polling Engines failed. This meant that any Meet Adam Name Adam Nash Job Title SolarWinds Product Manager Tel 020 8805 2999 Email adamninteractiveideas. www.testdriveinteractiv 0208 805 2999 14 Issue 1: 2011 er resell uide g solution INSIDEÓ Discover the latest technologies for physical, virtual and cloud based IT infrastructures p21 RHEL 6 Interactive p16 New: Acronis p10 pull-out guide sign Cyberoam Online back-up Your complete guide to this innovative new Enterprise Linux system Get t Introduction Marketing Director Michael Breeze Thanks to Acronis, Red Hat, Solarwinds, Novell, Enterprise DB, Cyberoam, Incontinuum, Adam Nash, Walli Datoo, Shane Herath, Andy Miles and Karen Williams. For more information contact Karen Williams 020 8805 2999 karenw interactiveideas.com Interactive Interactive Ideas Service Vendor Relationships: added approach gives you access to: proactive, technically knowledgable A account management team. pecialist vendor product managers S that provide on-demand support to give you prompt replies to your technical and sales enquiries and assistance in News & Events Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 New release promises to set standards for the next decade R ed Hat Enterprise Linux has been renowned for its reliability and performance for almost a decade, and now the latest release promises to set entirely new standards for server operating systems. Vers News & Events SolarWinds scoops awards IT management software wins major magazine honours events T he Orion suite of products from Microsofts offering had previously held SolarWinds has scooped four for four consecutive years. top awards from the prestigious Josh Stevens, SolarWinds VP Redmond Magaz Q&A Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Aram Kananov Red Hat Product Marketing Manager EMEA, Platform & Cloud With the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and changes to the pricing model, we talk to Aram Kananov, the EMEA Platform & Cloud Product Marketing Manager, about whats new... them more choi Q&A EnterpriseDB Introduction to EnterpriseDB Sandor Klein EnterpriseDB Managing Director Europe, Middle East and Africa. Proving the strength of open source options in todays increasingly competitive environment, these are exciting times for EnterpriseDB, as EMEA MD Sandor Klein explains. class ope Q&A Acronis Acronis launches online backup David Blackman, General Manager, Acronis, Northern Europe When used in conjunction with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, Acronis new online offering gives users the security and peace of mind of having an automatic off-site backup. ccess to your backups from Q1 2011 Promotions - UK Acronis is delighted to announce a range of exciting new promotions to help you drive incremental revenue with Acronis backup and recovery solutions. These promotions are available to all partners till 31 st March 2011. For more information about the promotions and Acronis so Q&A Novell End User Computing Solutions Sarah Newport Partner Executive Distribution Novells Sarah Newport talks about End User Computing solutions and how Novell is accelerating a smooth migration to Microsoft Windows 7 using Novell ZENworks. may be developed in-house or, if web- based, may require Q&A Solarwinds The Failover Engine Adam Nash SolarWinds Product Manager, Interactive Ideas SolarWinds have now implemented a tried and tested robust failover module to the Orion suite taking the solution to the next level as a true enterprise class monitoring solution. Performance Monitor NPM, the N See why 93,000+ customers trust SolarWinds products to manage their networks. Are you a Network Reseller? Do you sell to network engineers or administators? SolarWinds products are ideal for you and your customers who appreciate easy-to-use networking products that are cost-effective and simply to m Q&A Cyberoam Meet Cyberoam... Kunal Popat General Manager, Business Development, Cyberoam Interactive Ideas security offering has been complemented with the addition of Cyberoams Unified Threat Management Appliance series. Kunal Popat tells us more... Q: Youve won a few awards, what sets you apart f How confident are you of your Network Security? Cyberoam is one of the most comprehensive network security devices. It simply combines gateway Firewall, VPN, Anti-spam, Anti- virus, intrusion prevention, bandwidth management and URL filtering on a single platform; justifying its claim of Unified Thr Q&A InContinuum Meet InContinuum... Phillip Hyde InContinuum CEO Phillip Hyde from InContinuum talks us through their innovative cloud product, CloudController, and explains why every Reseller should include it in their portfolio... Q: How does CloudController differ from other cloud products out on !#$& ()*+,&-./&012& 2,3124,35& !#$& (#)*+ ! 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