· Disaster planning - Keep valuable data safe and accessible during electrical outages, weather emergencies, intruder attacks, and hardware failures, by keeping redundant copies at remote sites.

· Failover Data Accessibility - When one storage system is down for system upgrade, repair, or otherwise off-line, keep your data services up and active.

· Real-Time Data Synchronization between two or more remote offices. Eliminate data confusion. Access all data in real-time, locally.

Solution:

eRacks/OpenMirror provides near real-time data mirroring between 2 or more remote offices.  eRacks/OpenMirror is based on a suite of open source software including Linux^TM, DRBD (distributed remote block device) data mirroring, OpenAFS file system, client-server authentication technologies.

This is just one great example of what eRacks consulting can build for you on a consulting basis using open source.