Improving App Availability and Performance in the Cloud Summer 2014

Apps are Hamstrung by Today’s Database Structure 1:1 tie between app and database Database = common source of outage Planned (maintenance) and unplanned Failover causes app errors Scaling is challenging and costly

Top Use Cases and Projects for Enterprise Customers Customer choose ScaleArc for: Continuous App Availability As part of projects for: Auto Failover In or Across Data Centers Zero Downtime Maintenance Add Capacity with No Downtime Data Center Modernization SQL Server 2012/2014 Upgrades Cloud Migration On cross data center – also note it’s across availability zones or regions Data center modernization – could be expansion, consolidation, infrastructure upgrades – so building new ones or upgrading them If not SQL Server, verbal overlay re: any upgrade vs. just SQL Server Cloud migration – also helps hybrid deployment All enabled without any changes to the app or database

Key Value Props for ScaleArc in the Cloud Simplifies application migration into the cloud – no changes Provides high-availability solutions with auto failover Delivers high-performance – for cloud and hybrid deployments Solves future scaling issues Enables simple application migration Move enterprise workloads to the cloud with no app changes Aggregate smaller cloud database instances to behave like one large server Provides high-availability solutions with auto failover Within one locale or across regions/availability zones Delivers high-performance – for cloud and hybrid deployments No performance compromise for apps in the cloud Supports app in the cloud, database on prem Solves future scaling issues Scale up and scale out without any app modifications

Cloud Deployment: App and Database in Cloud Challenges vCloud Air #1 Continuous App Availability – failover without app restarts or errors   #2 Visibility – deep insights into SQL queries for fast troubleshooting #3 Performance – connection multiplexing, caching, and seamless failover App Tier … ScaleArc Solution Deploy ScaleArc in the cloud in < 30 min Improve performance Local serving of reads with response-time aware load balancing Caching for fast throughput Provide visibility into SQL transactions for additional troubleshooting

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