Site Server and App Center Replacement
With Site Server (CRS) and Application Center reaching their end of life, organizations migrating to Windows 2003 Server or upgrading to 64 bit look for a proper alternative for their file replication 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 met:
- Must not force a change in the way the organization currently 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 Deployment Platform (R-1) is the only purpose-built, cost-effective content replication and application deployment solution for organizations seeking to replace Site Server (CRS) or Application Center deployment projects.
For End of Life migration projects, R-1 does not force IT to change the way it works. The same relationship between administrators defining automated and manual projects and content owners activating them with simple web interface exist. 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.
Having a small application footprint, being non-intrusive (installations do not require reboots or server/application downtime) and having no operating system pre requisites ensures smooth transitions.
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
- Scalable file replication, scheduled, on demand by content and code owners, or in real time.
- Applications Deployment of complete websites-files, web content, IIS6 Metabase, .NET global assemblies, ISAPI filters, and COM+ objects.
- Web interface for restricted users to initiate and monitor their pre-set deployment projects provides operational compatibility with the deployment processes applied earlier by Site Server or Application Center. The users do not need to learn a new process.
- Transactional (all or nothing) deployments across complete server farms.
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 significantly better 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.
- Smooth operation on W2003 and 64 bit platforms as well as complete support for cross platform deployments between Windows (NT, 2000, 2003), Unix, and Linux.
- Firewall friendly, does not require windows networking or having the source and targets in the same domain.
Hundreds of organizations have turned to RepliWeb replacing Site Server and Application Center deployments. Their success stories are similar: over 50% of 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 updates while reducing Web farm operating costs by automating update processes.
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"The R-1 implementation was extremely efficient. The fact that we had no downtime, and that it could be installed on live Site Server-enabled servers saved us a lot of time and hassles," commented David Kariv, MSN's CTO. "R-1 has already had a positive impact on our production environment and we've realized cost savings, performance improvements, and reduced support requirements."