Case Study: Ready-to-Run Software
Ready-to-Run Software to Use ScaleOut StateServer
High availability and support for rolling upgrades are critical requirements for this application. Although Ready-to-Run Software's client utilizes ASP.NET and ASP.NET session objects in their application, they do not use SQLServer for their line of business database, and the cost of licensing a clustered SQLServer for storing only session objects was prohibitive. By using ScaleOut StateServer to store session state data in memory directly on the Web farm, they achieve higher performance than if using disk-based storage, and avoid the complexity and cost of clustering a relational database. Additionally, ScaleOut Software's StoreSafe™ technology intelligently replicates data across the Web servers in the farm making it always available to the application, even when servers are taken offline for administrative tasks or are down because of machine failures. Utilizing ScaleOut StateServer's memory-based storage and administrative features, Ready-to-Run built a Web farm with high availability and which allows for application updates without interruption to users. They were able to do this for a fraction of the cost of using a relational database for storing session state information.
Ready-to-Run Software is the leader in cross-platform service and software porting while offering extensive implementation and back-end support services to dozens of companies ranging from large multi-national, Fortune 500 firms to regional service and technology companies.
