Site Server and App Center Users
With Site Server (CRS) and Application Center reaching their end of life, many organizations migrating to newer Windows Server operating systems need to find new solutions for content, application and IIS replication.
These IT organizations require continuity in the management of deployment processes, enhanced performance, scalability and streamlined migration paths. Meeting these requirements will enable IT to facilitate a smooth transition, while also helping to prepare for future deployment challenges.
RepliWeb Deployment (R-1) is a purpose-built solution for automating the deployment of content, applications and IIS, positioning it as the most cost- effective alternative for Site Server (CRS) or Application Center. RepliWeb Deployment facilitates a smooth migration from these legacy applications to a RepliWeb-enabled deployment process, without compromising existing business processes.
Administrators are able to define automated and manual deployments while allowing Content owners to manage their own deployments via a familiar and customizable Web UI.
Over the course of a migration, RepliWeb Deployment runs side by side with Site Server or Application Center (or any other production application), allowing for a gradual transition from Site Server or Application Center enabled processes to a dedicated RepliWeb Deployment enabled process.
With a small application footprint, non-intrusive architecture (installations do not require reboots or server/application downtime), and lack of OS pre-requisites, Users and Applications will not experience any impact on production during the move to R-1.
Post-migration, RepliWeb Deployment’s robust feature set alleviates common replication and deployment pains:
- Rollback - supports rollback to any point in time, regardless of the number of changes and without needing to redeploy content across the network.
- Enhanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting - robust reporting and auto-notifications ensure that operations proceed as planned.
- Granular Control - enhanced support for complex and granular definitions of “include” and “exclude” files and folders, and other deployment specifications.
- Optimized Transport - proprietary transport engines for LANs, WANs, and Large File Acceleration ensure efficient use of bandwidth.
- Transactional Deployments - overcomes content inconsistencies that often occur over lengthy replication processes.
- Comprehensive Platform Support - support for Windows Server 2003/2008 and 64 bit platforms, as well as cross platform deployments between Windows (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008), Linux and UNIX.
- Firewall-Friendly Transport - does not require sources and targets to be in the same domain.
Hundreds of organizations have turned to RepliWeb Deployment as an alternative to Site Server and Application Center for content replication and deployment. Typical installations result in significant performance improvements in content and application release cycles, reductions in ongoing operating expenses, extremely low installation and migration costs, and an amazingly quick return on investment.
"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."
