1. Semper Continuity Suite

2. In business, you look ahead. You want to be prepared for everything so you invest in
insurances and back-up plans to enable your business to continue.
Your PCs, data and software are crucial, but they can also be unpredictable. You can’t
always prevent disasters of any size from happening, but you CAN make sure that
their consequences are limited to an absolute minimum with Semper Continuity Suite.
The part of your business continuity strategy you simply can’t afford to be without.
The ideal product, providing faster and more efficient responses to PC and server
software problems.

3. Table of ConTenT:
Overview................................................................................4.
Why Software Continuity.......................................................5.
What unique technologies make Semper Software work?......6.
What are the benefits for me?................................................9.
What are the results of using Semper Software?...................10.
Unique Selling Points – Quick Overview................................11.
About Semper Software........................................................12.

4. 4.
Semper Continuity Suite
No matter how well your business continuity strategy
is defined, there is always a chance that software will
let you down sooner or later. Semper Continuity Suite
technology provides IT professionals with the critical
ability to efficiently and cost-effectively recover PC and
server software from virtually any state back to a
working state within minutes, without deleting
any user data. It will maintain your system’s
continuity with fast deployment, automatic
repair, and multiple rollback points, providing
availability in excess of 99.9% in enterprise PC
environments.

5. 5.
WHY SofTWaRe
ConTInUITY?
Software Continuity technologies, software con- working state within min-
as an essential part tinuity provides the highest utes. Automatic repair recov-
of your business availability and fastest recov- ers a computer from virtually
continuity strategy. ery of your operating systems, any state - including an offline
To ensure critical business applications, data and settings. state - within minutes without
functions continue to be avail- deleting any user data, thereby
able to your customers, sup- Software Continuity: increasing both user satisfac-
pliers, regulators, and other react more quickly and tion and user productivity.
entities, many organizations efficiently.
have implemented business Semper Continuity Suite not
continuity strategies. Business only minimizes the conse-
functions, however, often quences of disasters; it also
depend upon the availability simplifies the daily problem-
of the software that supports solving work of the IT pro-
these functions. Virus attacks, fessional. The way Semper
user errors, hack attacks, and Software works in your IT
untested patching can seri- environment offers many
ously disrupt the availability benefits.
of software and will affect the
bottom line of every business. IT staff will be able to improve
software deployment times
by up to 80%. With its mul-
“Availability
To stay one step ahead, invest
now in software continuity to ticast deployment and rapid
repair capabilities, Semper
in excess of
maintain service, consistency,
and recoverability. Thanks Continuity Suite will restore
individual or groups of
99.9%!”
to its imaging, rapid re-
deployment and rapid repair PCs and servers back to a

6. 6.
WHaT UnIqUe TeCHnologIeS
make SemPeR SofTWaRe WoRk?
Semper software offers unique technologies for
building, deploying, maintaining and recovering
servers, desktops and laptops in enterprise
environments.
Preboot execution Single Instance Storage space required to store images
environment (PXe) (SIS) Repository by up to 95%, but also reduces
Semper Continuity Suite is Semper Continuity Suite the amount of data being cop-
one of the few solutions that offers the most effective disk ied across the network by
fully leverage Intel’s Preboot imaging solution in the mar- 90% which speeds up imag-
Execution Environment (PXE). ketplace for desktops, lap- ing and cuts down on network
Semper Continuity Suite works tops and servers. Using file utilization.
‘out of the box’ and enables based imaging technology,
Traditional
continuous visibility and con- Semper Continuity Suite ena- Instance
trol over your PCs and servers bles the use of a compressed, Storage
without requiring the instal- encrypted, single instance file
.
lation of an agent or driver on store where every unique file
the target computer. Thanks is stored once. This means
.
to the complete PXE support, large numbers of images can
Semper Continuity Suite oper- restored within a very small
.
ates irrespective of the oper- amount of disk space as only Single Instance
Storage (SIS)
ating system type or system the unique differences found
.
state and is able to access and in new images will increase
repair your PCs and servers the size of the image store
. .
within minutes even if they (see diagram). This concept,
x . +
are non-bootable. that is also known as dedupli- . x
cation, not only reduces the = . = .

7. 7.
local image caching
No Partition
Our unique local image cach-
ing in conjunction with the
System image
single instance storage (SIS)
in unallocated
repository creates an envi- partition
ronment where network traf-
fic only occurs when updat-
ing differences, not the entire
image. The local image cache Free disk space
is effectively a section of the
NTFS Partition
hard disk that is unallocated
and contains all the files nec-
essary to build the system to
the given configuration level.
The image cache works as a Operating System,
mirror of the server file store Applications,
and Data
in the SIS repository. If updates
are made to the image the
Semper Continuity Suite rep-
licates the updates to the cli-
ents via a multicast protocol. deployment to multiple roll- operating system or applica-
This is the key to our rapid back points. Images are eas- tion files to a previous working
repair and re-deployment ily stored off site or replicated state. When auto-repair is ena-
abilities. to a backup server in a differ- bled, on every reboot Semper
ent location. This provides a Continuity Suite identifies and
Disaster recovery site-wide recovery capability replaces any missing or dam-
Semper Continuity Suite is to individuals or all clients in a aged files. This process usually
capable of storing a com- matter of minutes. adds 10-15 seconds to the boot
plete image of each system’s process and, as it does not for-
current configuration with- Self repair mat the disk like other recov-
out requiring vast amounts of Using its unique local image ery solutions, the user’s data is
disk space. Multiple images caching technology, Semper left intact. Semper Continuity
of a system can be held by Continuity Suite can auto- Suite enables access to man-
the Semper Continuity Suite matically repair PCs and serv- age and repair your PCs and
server, which allows for rapid ers with missing or corrupt servers even when the system

8. 8.
won’t boot due to a damaged “Semper Continuity Suite has
application or operating sys-
tem. Several repair options are been directly responsible for
available:
reducing downtime and making
• administrator triggered
repair: the administra- the management of complex and
tor initiates a repair or re-
deploys one of the images legacy equipment a simpler, more
back to the PC or server.
straightforward process”
• Repair all: on every reboot – Peter Moreton, IT Manager Invotec Group
faulty or changed files or
applications are replaced
and unauthorized software other key technologies
installations are disabled. • Multicast deployment: up. Backup efficiency is fur-
Filters to the repair proc- allowing multiple clients to ther enhanced by breaking
ess can be set, e.g. to ignore participate in a single down- files down into smaller parts
documents and settings. load session. Data is sent to so that when files change
multiple clients simultane- only the changed parts are
• always replace: on every ously; deployment is fast backed up.
reboot this formats the disk and uses less network band-
and re-deploys the image, width than conventional • Hardware and Software
repairing filesystem and unicast deployment. auditing: extracts the hard-
partition issues. ware and software infor-
• Highly efficient data backup mation from all compatible
• fast return: rapidly deletes and recovery: protects user systems.
any new data while data, system files and the
repairing. registry using less disk stor- • Secure decommissioning at
age space than traditional the enterprise level:
• offline self repair: on every data backup solutions by decommissioning PCs and
reboot the PC self repairs using Single Instance Storage servers at the end of their
from the cached image on technology so identical files lifecycle by using a multi
its hard drive. are not repeatedly backed disk swipe.

9. 9.
WHaT aRe
THe benefITS foR me?
1. enable business continuity.
Rest assured! You’re prepared. Semper Continuity Suite maintains
your system’s continuity with fast deployment, re-deployment, and
multiple rollback points, providing availability in excess of 99.9% in
enterprise PC environments. No other company addresses business
continuity as comprehensively and with the same speed, ease of
use and actual tangible benefits as Semper Software does.
2. Reduce costs and realign your investments.
Semper Continuity Suite minimizes the amount of time
needed to support, deploy and repair PCs and servers.
Using Semper Continuity Suite, organizations can save
90% or more of existing PC and server rebuild costs while
reducing the TCO of PCs and servers by at least 50%.
As a result, IT can realign valuable time and money to
mission-critical needs.
3. Increase end-user satisfaction and
productivity.
Semper Continuity Suite maintains a stable IT
environment with an operating system, application
and data recovery framework that keeps IT running.
This significantly improves the quality of the IT
service level to the business.

10. 10.
WHaT aRe THe ReSUlTS of
USIng SemPeR SofTWaRe?
business results IT results
• Reduces TCO of PCs and servers by 50% or • Reduce PC fault times by 60%.
more.
• Deployment speed up to 80% faster than tra-
• ROI in as little as 3 months is achievable. ditional technology assisted by disk cashing.
• Availability in excess of 99.9% for Linux and • Save up to 90% or more of existing PC rebuild
Windows PCs and servers in an enterprise costs.
environment.
• Reduce PC installation lead time by 60%.
• Repairs have an average time to resolution of
minutes, rather than hours or days. • Reduce the space required to store images by
up to 95%.
“When a problem occurs, Semper Continuity Suite allows
us to rapidly recover a PC into a working state far easier
and quicker than we could do manually. Without Semper
Continuity Suite we could be spending upwards of a day
trying to fix someone’s PC and recovering their data”.
– Dave Atterbury, Senior IT Systems Engineer at De Montfort University

11. 11.
UnIqUe SellIng PoInTS
– qUICk oveRvIeW
• Provide availability in excess of 99.9% for
Linux and Windows PCs and servers in an
enterprise environment.
• Automatically repair PC and server software
from virtually any state - even if they are
non-bootable - in minutes without deleting
any user data.
• Rapid repair of PCs in an offline state.
• Bundle rapid repair, offline rapid repair and
decommissioning at the enterprise level are
combined in one single product.
• “Single click” technology allowing anyone to
rapidly repair their desktop or laptop in min-
utes without deleting any user data and with-
out any assistance from the Help Desk.
• The fastest client-based User Data Backup
and Recovery solution available.
• Secure decommission at the enterprise level.

12. www.sempersoftware.com
about Semper Software
Semper Software, the proven leader in Windows and Linux software continuity, is driving a transformation in
the way organizations reduce the cost of managing and deploying their PC and server populations. The company’s
cutting edge technology empowers its customers, which range from SMBs to global enterprises, to manage an
increasingly complex PC and server ecosystem and meet the essential needs of maintaining software continuity
in excess of 99.9% availability as a vital part of an overall business continuity strategy. Designed for servers,
desktops and laptops, Semper Software’s award winning technology enables IT professionals to automatically
recover PCs and servers from virtually any state back to a working state within minutes, all without deleting
any user data.