Company Overview

High-Availability.Com Limited ("HAC"), established in the UK in 1995, designs, develops and has successfully deployed its High Availability and Disaster Recovery middleware solutions for UNIX and Linux enterprise servers. Two of the three existing founders are still with the Company and direct current operations.

HAC's premier product, RSF-1, has been delivered to an impressive set of customers across virtually all market segments, worldwide where 24x7 application and services availability is a mandatory requirement

The technology since its inception has been proven as an innovative, cost-effective solution that maximizes the availability of customers' business IT and internet-facing functions. Although focused mainly in the Sun Solaris and rapidly emerging Linux server markets, HAC's technology is also available for other processor platforms including leading proprietary IBM and HP UNIX architectures, as well as systems using Intel x86 and AMD Opteron processors.

HAC has built an enviable niche reputation in the development of its high availability and disaster recovery solutions for the UNIX and Linux markets and its products compete effectively with all of its challengers.

In addition to licensing its software products, HAC offers a comprehensive suite of Professional Services to assist its customers and resellers with both pre-sales and post-sales application and technical requirements.

HAC also operates a 24x7 support organization to help ensure that its customer's mission-critical applications and services continue to be highly available.

HAC sells its products via a global network of resellers, distributors and OEM partners. This network includes channel partners in the UK, Europe, China, Japan, US and S. Korea. We also sell our products direct to customers via its web site and through a small, direct sales presence in the UK, Benelux and US.

RSF-1 resides between the storage volume management and application layers typically found in:

• Web servers
• Application servers
• Firewall servers
• Database servers

providing support for most leading applications in those areas.

RSF-1's forte is its "does exactly what it says on the tin" functionality which provides an uncomplicated, yet powerful, configuration and management framework enabling customers to deploy high availability solutions in a matter of hours, rather than days or weeks.

Through the use of optional monitoring agents for many popular databases, middleware products and end-user applications, RSF-1 is able to switch mission-critical applications and services from servers experiencing network, hardware, operating system or application failures, to alternative servers located in the appropriate cluster, thus minimizing downtime and impact to the customer's operations.

By incorporating feature-rich command line and GUI interfaces, RSF-1 enables manual and automated failure recovery for up to 200 mission-critical applications and services within a 1 - 64 node cluster.

RSF-1 has received the following Certifications:

• Sun Microsystems' SunTone, iForce, Partner Advantage
• OPSEC (Check Point Software for Firewall-1 support)
• Red Hat Ready
• MySQL Partner
• Remedy Alliance Advantage Program (Remedy ARS support)
• IBM i-series, p-series, x-series & z-series server proven (Linux)

RSF-1 supports a number of processor architectures as well as several versions of UNIX and Linux, as indicated in the summary table below: