Hard or soft—how to choose a High Availability solution

The SafeKit software clustering solution provides high availability and load balancing functions traditionally executed by hardware. How do you make the right choice between software clustering and hardware clustering?

The answer is simple: for small and medium-sized applications, a software clustering solution is ideal because it is more user-friendly, whereas the hardware clustering solution is better for large applications, in spite of its complexity. For a more detailed analysis, click here.

The top three scenarios for software clustering

There are three cases where our customers have consistently considered SafeKit's software-based clustering to have the clearest advantages over hardware-based solutions:

• In data centers, using the same clustering solution to provide high availability for multiple small-to-medium applications on the periphery of large databases 
• In distributed organizations, clustering applications in the local branches on standard hardware with a simple easy-to-manage solution 
• In software publishing companies that want to add a high-availability option to applications running on multiple platforms