Hardware cluster versus software cluster

Target market of clustering solutions

Network load balancers (load balancing and failover)	Hardware cluster (with external storage replicated on a SAN)	Sofware cluster (load balancing, real-time replication and failover)

Large web portal with load balancing	Large database on shared disk	High availability and load balancing of critical applications on standard servers

To reduce costs of hardware clusters, SafeKit offers within the same software product on Windows or Unix:

network load balancing without dedicated server,
synchronous real time replication of file directories between two servers,
a failover toolkit on hardware and software failures.

As SafeKit is a toolkit, each feature can be configured or not according your need.

SafeKit is hardware independent and runs on your existing physical or virtual servers. And to further reduce costs, it works with the standard editions of OS and databases: standard editions of Windows, Unix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or other database or file… and even with Windows 7.

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