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Site Server Publishing Replacement

With the venerable Site Server (CRS) and Application Center reaching their end of life, organizations migrating to Windows 2003 Server or upgrading to 64 bit must find a proper alternative for their content and application deployment needs.

Content deployment is a critical part of any web based or distributed application. When selecting an alternative for replacing Site Server (CRS) or Application Center three critical requirements should be meet:

  • Must not require a dramatic change to the way an organization current manages its content life cycle.
  • Must exceed current performance and reliability metrics - nothing can be degraded.
  • Must deliver long-term strategic value and scalability, enabling IT organizations to expand product usage and address future deployment challenges.

RepliWeb addresses each of these issues with its RepliWeb Deployment (R-1). R-1 is the only purpose-built, cost-effective web content mirroring and application deployment solution for organizations seeking to replace Site Server (CRS) or Application Center for content and application deployment. Hundreds of organizations have turned to RepliWeb for assistance in replacing both of these end-of-life (EOL) products.

One of the most important values that R-1 delivers during EOL migration projects, it does not force IT to change the way it works. R-1’s small application footprint, non-intrusive operation (installations do not require reboots or server/application downtime) and no operating system pre requisites ensures smooth transitions. R-1 will run side by side with Site Server or Application Center (or for that matter, any other production application) allowing for gradual transitions of Site Server or Application Center deployment projects onto a dedicated R-1 deployment process. Neither Users nor Applications will experience a production impact when moving to R-1.

R-1 addresses multiple content deployment strategies and workflows via scheduled, real-time, application triggered or manually initiated (by Users via a unique web interface) processes. R-1 enables:

  • Deployment of complete websites-files, web content, IIS6 Metabase, .NET global assemblies, ISAPI filters, and COM+ objects.
  • Automated process with advanced scheduling, real time or on demand by content and code owners.
  • Web interface for restricted users to initiate and monitor their pre-set deployment projects provides operational compatibility with the deployment processes applied earlier Site Server or Application Center. [insert web ui picture here] The users do no need to learn a new process.
  • Transactional (all or nothing) deployments across complete servers farms.

Web User Interface

On top of that, R-1 offers significant improvements on commonly known Site Server and Application Center pain points:

  • Rollback functionality is improved to support rollback to any point in time regardless of the number of changes and without the need to redeploy content across the network to achieve rollback.
  • Improved process monitoring and troubleshooting through more granular reporting and notifications.
  • Enhanced support for any complex and most granular definition of include and exclude files and folders deployment specifications.
  • Optimized for LANs, WANs, and Large File Acceleration with various transport engines .
  • Complete support for cross platform deployments between Windows, Unix, and Linux.
  • Firewall friendly, does not require windows networking or having the source and targets in the same domain.

R-1 is helping hundreds of performance-driven organizations optimize their content deployments in Windows-based and multi-platform computing environments. Their success stories are similar: 50%+ performance improvements in content and application release cycles, significant reductions in ongoing operating expenses, extremely low installation and migration costs, and amazingly quick return on investment.

Learn how R-1 is helping IT organizations meet service level requirements for content freshness while reducing Web farm operating costs by automating update processes

Register for RepliWeb's R-1 Site Server and App Center replacement.

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