New Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition

Sybase, Inc. announced the availability of its Adaptive Server
Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition. This edition features patent-pending
Virtualized Resource Management (VRM) technology that reduces the
complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk
server cluster, and helps customers meet Service Level Agreements
(SLAs) for performance and availability, while also reducing hardware
and power costs through optimal resource utilization.

"Enterprises today are struggling to reduce their infrastructure
costs yet at the same time meet high-availability requirements,” said
Carl Olofson, Research vice president for Information Management and
Data Integration, IDC. “Shared-disk cluster architecture helps to meet
these key enterprise requirements for mission-critical database
applications. Sybase’s focus on building in capabilities to reduce IT
complexity through a shared-disk cluster architecture to improve system
availability and reliability, and to simplify administration will go
towards enabling further adoption of this approach."

“ASE Cluster Edition brings unparalleled availability and resource
optimization to a database platform already known for its superior
performance, reliability and low total cost of ownership," said Dr. Raj
Nathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase. “Customers in areas such as
financial services, telecommunications, retail and government have
turned to ASE because it handles extreme transactions in OLTP
environments ranging from small and mid-sized databases to VLDB systems
with rock solid reliability. We are pleased that we’ve been able to
develop ASE Cluster Edition so that our customers, who run some of the
world’s most critical data, are able to cost-effectively achieve
unprecedented service levels.”

Several key customers, including some major financial services firms
that worked closely with Sybase over the last year, commented on the
ease of implementing the ASE Cluster Edition software. With five
patents pending, Sybase® ASE Cluster Edition’s built-in Virtualized
Resource Management (VRM) technology provides application workloads
with a virtual view of the physical cluster that can be dynamically
changed on demand, greatly simplifying the installation, configuration,
and maintenance of the system.

Sybase’s Virtualized Resource Management technology facilitates:

• A logical view of physical cluster resources that makes it
  possible to easily and dynamically change database resources so that
  SLAs are met for an application workload;
• The configuration and deployment of workloads across cluster nodes; and,
• Availability
  of full information about the current state of the physical cluster for
  assistance and fine tuning of the overall system.

Enterprises can leverage Sybase ASE Cluster Edition to:

• Maintain optimal service levels through system failures, peak loads and downtime for planned maintenance;
• Maximize
  resource utilization by consolidating database workloads running from
  underutilized hardware onto a smaller number of machines; and,
• Implement
  a data grid system by reducing infrastructure costs by replacing
  expensive, high-end hardware with a grid of low-cost servers that still
  delivers the same service levels.

Cluster Edition is now available for ASE 15.0.1 on RedHat Enterprise
Linux 4, 5 (X86_64), 64-bit Solaris 9 and 10 on SPARC platforms, and
SuSE Linux 9, 10 (X86_64).

Sybase, Inc.