Original publication date: October, 2009
As with Delta 5.0, there’s no shortage of reasons to upgrade to ECS 6.0. Its processing times are faster and your ability to control its operations in real time are greatly increased, to name just a few. Here’s two more: scale-out processing and integrated failover!
Available in the enterprise edition of ECS only, you can scale out your processing and manage workload over a cluster of ECS servers. All ECS servers within a cluster share the same database; when one server is busy, another steps in and handles the processing. For even more efficiency, you can “pool” servers in different configurations. For example, you could create a pool that consists of all servers and assign your most time-sensitive processing to that pool.
ECS Enterprise 6.0 also offers integrated failover capabilities. In the event that the primary ECS server experiences a failure, a backup controller will automatically take over to avoid system downtime.