Welcome to Armored Computing
Computers and computer networks provide
critical services in areas such as electronic commerce, financing, health, and
telecommunication. When the systems providing vital services to an organization
are down the cost can be devastating: lost opportunities, lost revenues,
non-compliance penalties, high maintenance cost. More importantly partners,
customers, suppliers affected by the system shutdowns perceive the organization
as poorly run and not quite suited to meet their needs.
High Availability
The telecom industry and the circuit switch networks have, historically,
provided high availability as a fundamental requirement for services. For
example, a switching component has less than 5 minutes per year downtime and
provides better than 99.999% availability (or about 5 minutes downtime per
year). There is a growing need for other high availability systems, especially
in enterprise and corporate IT networks and services (e.g., email, payroll,
e-commerce, directories). Moreover, the current trends towards providing
critical services over the Web and the growth in e-commerce drive the needs for
high availability. Increasing globalization requires that the corporate IT and
data networks provide service 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There is no good
time for a network outage or downtime. The data networks now are starting to
require at least 99.99% or 4Nines availability. Even at the personal computer
(PC) level, availability becomes important as PC users demand their computers
and applications provide much better service.
Security
An increase in the intensity and number of malicious attacks security has become
an issue of primary importance in designing trusted systems. Attacks due to
malicious code exported to the host computer and accessing secure information on
the host are commonplace. The extent of attacks ranges from exhaustion of system
resources to seizing of root privileges and ultimately unrecoverable damage.
Every day companies face the challenges of keeping their information secure and
protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their digital
assets.
Why Armored Computing?
Achieving high availability and security calls for open, flexible and configurable solutions that are able to address,
in a cost-effective way, a variety of dependability requirements, including availability, maintainability,
integrity and security. Such solutions can be based on pre-built and reusable modules, adaptable
for a wide range of applications and reusable in different environments.
Our unique technology enables deployment of highly robust applications and includes:
- ARMOR—a software middleware to provide high availability transparently to applications
- NFTAPE—a software framework to enable automated fault tolerance assessment and benchmarking of proposed solutions
Both technologies have been developed and prototyped at the University of Illinois.
ARMOR technology offers a scalable low-overhead way to provide high-dependability services to applications.
Its fault tolerance design uses coordinated multithreaded processes to manage redundant resources across interconnected nodes,
detect errors in user applications and infrastructural components, and provide failure recovery.
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Our
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- ARMOR -
Robust Middleware
- NFTAPE-
Fault Tolerance Benchmarking Toolset
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Our
Services
High availability assessment & benchmarking
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ARMORED COMPUTING
Your
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Our Technology
Reliability Availability Security
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