SAN FRANCISCO -- Aug. 9, 2005 -- Emic Networks, the leading provider of application clustering solutions for the open source stack, announced today at LinuxWorld San Francisco (Moscone Center, booth #243) a solution partnership with Multrix. Multrix is one of the first independent application service providers in the Netherlands. Both companies will work together to provide customers with high availability services for the open source LAMP stack offered by Multrix.
The combined strengths of the Multrix and Emic solutions offering will provide global customers with robust high availability services, ensuring that their mission critical applications stay up and running. Multrix's goal is to help its customer develop a highly available, scalable and reliable solution while providing a low total cost of ownership for their mission critical applications. Emic, with its successful history of developing clustering solutions for the open source market, is ideally positioned to support these needs and meet the standards set by Multrix.
Emic provides application clustering solutions for MySQL(R) databases and Apache(TM) web servers, as well as for the LAMP and LAMJ stacks. Emic offers customers the option of purchasing stand-alone products or integrated solutions that best fit their individual needs. Emic's solutions provide the most advanced high availability, scalable, dynamic load-balancing architecture for open source application stacks.
"Emic's clustering solutions offer the reliability that we value and meet the high standards we expect in an application solution partner," said Multrix founder, Phillip Actor. "As an Application Service Provider, it is essential that we trust the applications that we provide to our customers. Emic's solution allows us to be confident that the services we provide for our customers will always be up."
"This latest partnership expands Emic's presence in the quickly growing hosting environment. We see hosting vendors increasingly turning to an open source platform for its flexibility, high performance and proven ability to generate significant ROI," said Emic CEO, Eero Teerikorpi. "With Emic, Multrix will be able to meet the needs of enterprises running mission critical applications in their environment as well as offer a fault tolerant solution at a low TCO.
About Multrix
Multrix is one of the first independent Application Service Providers in the Netherlands. Multrix rents applications, supported by a complete range of other services such as management, maintenance, helpdesk and support. Rental of applications allows medium sized and large organizations to decrease their Total Cost of Ownership and at the same time benefit from full functionality. For more information, please visit http://www.multrix.com.
About Emic
Emic offers solutions that provide availability, scalability and manageability, allowing you to run mission critical applications on low-cost open source platforms. In order to provide high availability, Emic supplies synchronous data replication, hot standby with fail-over, disaster recovery and online maintenance to minimize downtime. To allow your applications to scale seamlessly, Emic provides dynamic load balancing and the ability to add new servers to the cluster in real time. To easily manage your cluster, Emic provides a single management interface for deployment, performance monitoring, health checks and alerts. Emic is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, and its products are available worldwide through direct and indirect channels. For more information, please visit http://www.emicnetworks.com.
