The
Victory Challenge team competing in the 33rd America's Cup
sailing tournament next year will use
virtualisation technology for disaster recovery of its key
navigation and weather forecasting systems.
Tight deadlines and budgets dictate that the Victory Challenge
team has to work as efficiently as it can. Any setback or loss of
information could cost the team valuable time when racing.
The crew will use software from VMware to mirror key systems
which includes over 50 workstations and laptops, a production and
test environment and severs which compile race data.
"The team here depend on a high availability of information in
real time when racing. If a particular machine or piece of hardware
fails, knowing you can just run the same application and
environment on another server within a few seconds can be vital in
winning a race," said Eric Ernst, IT manager with the Victory
Challenge team.
The team will also continue its use of software from
Securewave to enable only authorised devices to connect to
network servers, laptops or computers. Only whitelisted
applications will be able to execute on
endpoints and control what is loaded onto the Victory
Challenges network.
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