GoldenGate Pitches Tools to Help Users Move from Tru64 to HP-UX

Published: March 15, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

GoldenGate Software, a provider of data replication and database clustering software, is pitching its line of products to AlphaServer customers running the mothballed Tru64 Unix operating system from Hewlett-Packard as a means to speed up and more smoothly do migrations to the HP-UX Unix platform.

The package that GoldenGate has put together is called Zero-Downtime Operations, and as the name suggests, it enabled companies moving applications and databases from Tur64 systems to HP-UX systems to keep the databases on the HP-UX machines in synch with the running production systems on the older Tru64 boxes. No word on if this data replication and high availability software is being made available on an interim basis solely for the purposes of migrations, but it would be interesting if GoldenGate did that. It is more likely that GoldenGate is selling the software licenses and then will convince customers to reuse it to cluster multiple HP-UX systems for high availability and disaster recovery.

"Companies today spend an inordinate amount of time, money, and resources performing infrastructure and database maintenance tasks and as a result endure painful hours and days of downtime," says Sami Akbay, vice president of marketing for GoldenGate. "The availability of our Zero-Downtime Operations solution to organizations migrating to HP Integrity servers running HP-UX ensures real-time access to mission-critical information."

GoldenGate has 300 customers using its software, and it supports a wide variety of databases, including Oracle 8, 9i, and 10g, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, the various DB2s from IBM for Unix, Linux, Windows, and mainframe servers, plus Ingres, Sybase, HP Enscribe, SQL-MX, and SQL-MP.

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