Availant, a provider of engineering and professional services, announces the completion of a joint software engineering effort for the development of the High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) for AIX(R) Version 5.1.0. Since 1990, Availant and IBM have collaborated in a successful technology partnership for the design and development of HACMP for AIX, IBM's high availability offering for pSeries servers. "The long-standing and successful collaboration between IBM and Availant continues to provide real value for customers who are looking for High Availability solutions," said Michael Michaud, Vice President of Engineering at Availant. "The recent DH Brown review of HACMP demonstrates that HACMP continues to be the premier High Availability solution in the marketplace." HACMP for AIX is geared to e-Server pSeries (TM) customers with business-critical applications and systems. The software provides near-continuous application uptime for clustered servers by rapidly switching from one system to another in the event of a hardware or software failure. HACMP 5.1.0 supports clusters of up to 32 servers with extensive capabilities: cluster management, status monitoring, concurrent shared-access management, as well as support for a host of IBM pSeries servers and storage devices. HACMP V5 also provides a new feature, HACMP/XD (Extended Distance), which provides new data backup and disaster recovery capabilities. "HACMP Version 5 is the product of a lot of hard work," stated John Olson, HACMP Development Manager at Availant. "The joint IBM and Availant engineering teams went to great lengths to make Version 5 standout in three main ways: making it easier for customers to install and use, reducing application fallover times by an order of magnitude, and providing the most reliable High Availability platform in the UNIX market."