Fremont, CA — (press release exerpt) — Force Computers today announced the EndurX 25K platform for “Ultra Availability” (UA) solutions, the first in a new line of fully integrated system solutions. EndurX 25K UA offers advanced remote platform management and High Availability (HA) middleware and software upgradeability.

EndurX provides a whole system with “five nines” or “six nines” capability – not just individual components that require OEM integration – a first for open standards embedded HA computing.

“Breaking from its traditional position as a supplier of single board computers, Force has finally delivered what I can truly call a 'system' solution-not just a collection of cards in an enclosure,” said Jerry Krasner, Ph. D, an industry analyst at Embedded Market Forecasters. “With the economies of scale and scope no longer favoring the large, vertical telecom equipment manufacturers, an outsourcing model built on a system platform strategy such as Force's fully integrated EndurX line makes perfect sense.”

Compliant with PICMG 2.16, EndurX 25K UA platform is available preconfigured with up to 14 redundant Intel Pentium III processor-based server blades running the Linux operating system and GoAhead SelfReliant middleware. EndurX also has . . .

• Preinstalled cluster manager for all processor nodes
  
• IPMI platform management (PICMG 2.9)
  
• Fully redundant, hot-swappable hardware
  
• HA storage solutions
  
• NEBS Level 3 design-ideal for telecom and modular network applications
  
• ETSI building practices for back-to-back deployment

“Traditionally, High Availability systems only offered 99.999 percent uptime -or 'five nines'- on a component or subsystem level, forcing OEMs to integrate hardware and software on their own,” said Achim Apel, vice president and general manager of Force Computers' Systems Business Unit. “But by building on Force's High Availability Architecture and Service Availability middleware from GoAhead, Force's EndurX 25K Ultra Availability platform gives OEMs a highly integrated hardware-software offering, scaleable across multiple chassis, that eliminates any single point of failure with the use of all redundant components.”

The EndurX 25K UA platform is designed in line with the mission of the Service Availability Forum for on-demand, uninterrupted services and provides System Services Service Availability. Force Computers is a founding member of the forum, whose goal is to create standardized application programming interface specifications to help deliver “five nines” and higher availability of services.

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