LOS GATOS, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TidalScale, the company leading the Software-Defined Server revolution, today announced updates to its fourth generation Software-Defined Server technology to help organizations with mission-critical applications run more reliably and minimize system downtime. TidalScale 4.1 newly advanced features dramatically improves overall system reliability, availability, and serviceability to reduce server failure rates by 100x, effectively adding two 9’s to system up-time making 99.999% uptime possible. The company also announced that it is now live and available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
“The cost of server downtime, whether planned or unplanned, has never been higher. Enterprise customers are experiencing server hardware failures at a rate never seen before, often resulting in significant financial losses for their business,” said Gary Smerdon, President & CEO at TidalScale. “With the introduction of TidalScale 4.1, our customers can now detect and prevent impending failures through our ‘self-healing’ system which automatically hot swaps and replaces the failing server. This is accomplished with no human intervention – true lights out operation.”
The latest release of TidalScale’s technology also brings the benefit of server wear leveling and preventative health checks. Server wear leveling prioritizes the deployment of servers based on which systems have longest estimated life remaining. Preventative health check alerts system operators when a system needs to be taken off-line to perform a deep health-check. This is not possible while a server is running applications. These new features are now available with zero-downtime based on the TidalGuard capabilities.
“As IT becomes ever-more critical to business operations, enterprises are struggling to meet growing availability requirements, as well as the increasing need for affordable processing power, said independent analyst Tim Stammers. “TidalScale’s combination of virtualization and machine learning technology now promises dramatic improvements in availability, as well as a way to create highly scalable processing resources from low-cost commodity hardware, which makes their software-defined server technology even more important.”
As highlighted recently in The New York Times, computer servers have been experiencing increasing hardware failures. Uncorrectable memory failures are now 100 times more likely than they were a decade ago. Other sources of error include those related to power supply & fans, networking, and storage. This downward trend in server reliability is a surprising reality that’s threatening infrastructure at the base level. This is all accomplished using industry standard computers and networks running standard operating systems and applications.
Resources
- Blog: ‘Self-Healing’ Servers now a reality with TidalScale Software-Defined Server Technology!
- Press Release: TidalScale Announces Availability of Software-Defined Server Technology in AWS Marketplace
- Solutions Brief: TidalGuard
- Video: TidalScale 4.0 Launch: Paul Bockelman of AWS
- Video: Mohawk Industries on TidalScale
About TidalScale, Inc.
TidalScale is the industry leader in software-defined server technology. TidalScale’s software solution “glues” commodity servers together so that they function as a single larger system. The software accomplishes this by aggregating the CPU cores, memory, and I/O of multiple physical servers, virtualizing these resources, and then presenting them as a unified “software-defined server” to the operating system. TidalScale requires no changes to applications or operating systems and is deployable within minutes—on premises or in the cloud. TidalScale has been recognized in: Gartner Cool Vendors, CIO Review’s Most Promising SAP and Oracle Solution Providers, CRN’s Top 50 Software-Defined Data Center Leaders, Red Herring’s Global Top 100, IDC Innovators, and more. TidalScale is privately held with backing from Bain Capital, Aspenwood Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Infosys, SK Hynix, Citrix, and Samsung. Learn more at: http://www.tidalscale.com.
