Composite Web & Application Deployment
RepliWeb Content Deployment Platform (R-1) delivers automatic Web Sites content and Composite Application Code, Content, and Configuration to multiple targets.
- Composite Web & Applications –
- Multiple Content & Configuration types – Web content, IIS Metabase configuration, .NET Assemblies, COM+ Applications.
- Guarantee Integrity – Transfer Recovery at block level, Rollback on failures, and Transactional updates of content and code across multiple servers.
- Replication and Deployment – Feature rich file replication and content deployment.
- Automated – Scheduled, Real-Time, Pre/Post command execution.
- Scalable and Efficient - Transfers differences, Accelerated transfer for Large Files, including Compression and Bandwidth Control. Handles huge directories.
- Cross Platform - Windows, Unix, Linux.
- Secured – SSL Encryption & Authentication.
- Enterprise Management – Simple Web UI for Content Owners and Enhanced GUI, CLI, and API for Administrators and workflow integration.
- Simple to manage – Both automated and On-Demand Replications with reports down to single file update audit.
- Simple to install – Takes minutes with no reboot, Firewall friendly.
R-1 automates the way Code, Content, and Configuration changes are replicated and deployed to multiple web and application servers
From testing and staging to production, R-1 provides IT administrators full and flexible control over the replication process, enhanced reporting and rollback capabilities. R-1 streamlines releases and publishes web sites simultaneously, quickly and securely to multiple, cross platform remote servers.
The Business Challenge
The sheer size, depth and dynamic nature of today's composite applications, websites and corporate portals present many challenges when it comes to deploying new content and maintaining ongoing updates. Not only is the amount of content under management significant, but with most web-enabled organizations hosting sites from multiple datacenters, the challenge of providing reliable and timely updates is compounded even more.
Historically organizations have established pretty well defined lines between how and where content is created and deployed. In most cases the full burden of "deployment-to-production" has been placed on web infrastructure teams. Web server Administrators have normally executed deployments via manual copying tasks or via scripts based on FTP, XCopy or RSYNC.
As the complexity of web and applications environments expands and the frequency of changes multiplies, scripted solutions start delivering inconsistent completion results, poor deployment cycle timelines and present major management challenges. Eventually the number of scripts and processes under management reaches a point that it is unmanageable and no longer cost effective.
When content fails to make its way to production, business and revenue can be negatively impacted - restoring production environments to a correct data state can be even more of a challenge with manual processes. Any administrator who has dealt with restoring content to dozens of servers, in a short period of time, understands the challenges of this scenario.
The RepliWeb Solution
RepliWeb is addressing the content deployment needs of performance drive organizations. Web Server Administrators, Site Architects, Application Developers and Content Creators alike can now rely on one solution, RepliWeb Deployment Platform (R-1) to handle Content, Code and Server Component deployments.
An out of the box application, R-1 delivers the scheduling, security, automation and reporting capabilities that are essential for managing content updates throughout localized and remote data center computing environments. R-1 integrates into any content workflow and allows IT to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Administrators can plan and design end-to-end composite application and web site deployment workflows, incorporating all the necessary components. A typical R-1 automation scenario pulls content from different development environments to a centralized staging node to deploy unified code to production, and finish by triggering the application to run.
