Introducing WANdisco's JIRA MultiSite and JIRA Clustering
November 27, 2007 5:00 AMWe're excited to announce a new OEM agreement with WANdisco. They have developed a new product, JIRA MultiSite and JIRA Clustering (one product, two configurations) that offers high availability and scalability for JIRA. This partnership helps underscore JIRA's capabilities as a platform for building powerful new extensions. The product leverages WANdisco's 'active-active' replication capabilities. These capabilities support clustering over a WAN or LAN, providing automated system failover and "self-healing" disaster recovery that eliminates the need for either administrator intervention or costly third party disk mirroring solutions.
Some of the features of JIRA MultiSite include:
- Allowing IT organizations to gain immediate visibility into individual issue and overall project status across all development sites.
- Balancing workload across servers at multiple locations.
- No single point of failure since there is no sharing of disk, CPU or memory between servers with JIRA MultiSite.
JIRA Clustering allows for:
- Clustering over a LAN to balance workload across multiple JIRA servers at a single location.
- Each server in the cluster to have its own independent database replica that is kept in sync with all of the others.
- Failover and automated disaster recovery to insure business continuity.
So what's the bottom line? Ultimately this means issues are submitted and addressed in a timely manner, rework of coding and QA are minimized and code is properly safeguarded at all times. All of this should add up to tremendous time and costs savings for IT departments and software development teams.
JIRA MultiSite and Clustering are being sold exclusively by WANdisco through an OEM partnership and can be implemented standalone or in conjunction with WANdisco's solutions for Subversion and CVS. Visit their website for more information.
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6 Comment(s)
Why didn't Atlassian just do this? How is JIRA Enterprise "enterprise" when you can't even scale out?
By d d at December 1, 2007 5:29 AM
WANDisco has spent years building a kick-ass replication framework. They've tested and refined it with other products like Subversion, and we're happy to partner with them to offer that for JIRA. WANDisco has a very different business model, tailored to work with a small number of very large customers, who have a unique a unique set of problems to solve.
However, while WANDisco has been working on a distributed JIRA, we've been working to deliver features that can benefit *all* of our customers, not just the extremely large ones.
Cheers,
Jonathan @ atlassian
By Jonathan Nolen at December 4, 2007 1:05 PM
Jonathan:
Your comments make sense with respect to your product focus. My problem with Wandisco is exactly their business model. They work with a small number of very large customers and their pricing is over the top for a small software company like ours. The Jira pricing model definitely fits into our budget and is a featured tool for our complete product development cycle. Wandisco's main product is the CVS 2-way sync product which is ridiculously expensive, particularly since it is an add-on to an open source FREE product. When I last got a quote from them, even the Jira sync for our two offices (Canada - Sri Lanka) was going to cost us more than Jira itself. Mind you since then we upped the leased line capacity in Sri Lanka and performance seems fine to use a central Jira server in North America and ends up cheaper.
Nevertheless, I will ask our QA manager to find our if the OEM pricing is any more attractive.
Regards,
Vijit Coomara
CTO, B Sharp Technologies Inc.
By VIjit Coomara at February 21, 2008 1:40 PM
Hi Vijit,
You're right - WanDisco has a very different business model from Atlassian. It's optimized for different results.
Luckily, WanDisco replication is not the only solution for distributed teams. It sounds as though that improving your networking performance was a better option in your case. If the performance feels ok in your current configuration then there's no reason not to keep going with the central server.
Cheers,
Jonathan
By Jonathan Nolen at February 26, 2008 8:09 AM
Do you have to buy an extra JIRA licence if you wish to install JIRA on a 2nd server and synch. it to the original with MultiSite?
By an-enterprise-user at May 30, 2008 7:14 PM
Yes, if you wish to install JIRA on a second server and sync it, you would need to purchase an additional license.
WANDisco's licensing model charges for "Replicas" which is equivalent to a node license from Atlassian.
Cheers,
Todd
By Todd Revolt at June 6, 2008 3:40 AM