IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 historian announced

Invensys Wonderware business unit releases IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition historian software, which supports Microsoft cluster services and store and forward capabilities

Invensys Wonderware business unit releases IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition historian software.

Enterprise Edition supports Microsoft cluster services and store and forward capabilities.

Wonderware, an operating unit of Invensys Systems, has announced the release of its IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition historian.

The Wonderware IndustrialSQL Server real-time plant historian is the world's leading plant data historian, with approximately 14,000 installations worldwide.

"Wonderware is fully committed to providing the most complete range of high-availability functionality in the plant data historian market," said Jim Frider, product marketing manager for Wonderware plant intelligence products.

"Real-time plant information can power faster and smarter plant decisions, helping customers more effectively deliver on critical corporate initiatives such as improved asset utilisation, plant productivity and world-class product quality".

The new IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition supports Microsoft clustering services, which extend the high-availability capabilities of the application.

A cluster is a group of computers that work together to run a common set of applications and provide the image of a single system to the client and application.

"The IndustrialSQL Server Enterprise Edition historian can now support customers who rely on failover clusters to ensure that their plant data is available whenever they need it," Frider said.

Other high-availability features offered by the IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition historian include Server Store and Forward and remotely deployable data acquisition services, which help eliminate interruptions in data flow.

These capabilities allow users to store data to a secondary server if the primary server goes offline and forward the stored data to the primary server without interruptions when the server is restored to operation.

As part of a Wonderware partnership with Stratus Technologies, the IndustrialSQL Server historian has also been qualified for the Stratus ftServer 3300 Series fault-tolerant server.

These servers, combined with the IndustrialSQL Server historian, are ideal for environments where high-availability is critical.

The IndustrialSQL Server historian is part of the Wonderware FactorySuite A2 (A-squared) product line, which benefits from Invensys ArchestrA technology.

The ArchestrA industrial software architecture significantly reduces a plant's total cost of ownership through easy installation, operation, modification, maintenance and replication of automation applications.

The IndustrialSQL Server 8.0 Enterprise Edition historian is the latest addition to the Wonderware line of plant intelligence products, which help customers visualise, analyse and optimise their plant processes.

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