Enterprise security takes stage at DEMOfall '05
News Story by Ephraim Schwartz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 (INFOWORLD) - HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- While the gamers and entertainers get all the headlines at shows like DEMOfall '05, enterprise solutions are the backbone of the biannual show that connects high-tech innovators with high-tech investors.

E-mail and application continuity is the goal of the Teneros Application Continuity appliance. The appliance plugs into a server rack and replicates the primary Exchange message store before going into standby mode. After synchronization it looks for soft and hard failures in the production environment Exchange Server and, when necessary, becomes an automatic restore device.

During the demonstration, Steve Lewis, CEO and founder of Teneros, cut the Exchange server Ethernet cable while the audience watched. The production server went down only to be instantly replaced by the Teneros appliance.

When the system is back up and running, an administrator clicks the Fail Back button, which returns all of the e-mails handled by the Teneros appliance during downtime to the Exchange server.