en.Wedoany.com Reported - Mantec Solutions announced that it will release its server active-active solution MCCS 5.0 by the end of this year. The product has served over 5,000 clients cumulatively and will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year.
With rising server prices and the proliferation of artificial intelligence infrastructure, the importance of individual systems is increasing. Mantec Solutions, based on its server active-active solution MCCS, is leading the way in ensuring enterprise IT continuity. MCCS is a high-availability solution that detects and automatically recovers from failures in key IT resources such as servers, applications, networks, and storage, ensuring service continuity. Its core function is to switch services to a standby server upon failure to minimize downtime, and it improves operational stability through real-time data replication and fault history management.
Since its founding in 1989, Mantec Solutions has accumulated 37 years of expertise in system active-active, disaster recovery, operations automation, and container platforms. Based on its experience introducing and supporting domestic open system HA/DR solutions in 1994, the company recognized the need for proprietary technology tailored to the domestic IT environment and launched MCCS 1.0 in 2007.
Starting as a script-based active-active solution, MCCS has grown into a representative product in the South Korean server active-active market. It is now widely used across various industries, including public, finance, defense, manufacturing, telecommunications, broadcasting, and general enterprises, with over 5,000 cumulative clients. Noh Young-ki (phonetic), Head of Sales at Mantec Solutions, stated that MCCS clients are not concentrated in any specific industry but are evenly distributed across public, finance, manufacturing, large enterprises, and general businesses. The client base accumulated over the company's 37-year history and MCCS's upcoming 20th anniversary is a significant asset.
The demand for server active-active solutions has recently become more critical as enterprise operations expand to online, mobile, and cloud platforms. A single failure can lead to customer service interruptions, production disruptions, and financial transaction delays. While active-active was previously mainly targeted at core databases or middleware servers, its application scope has now expanded to include manufacturing execution systems, logistics systems, gateways, and customer services. Noh Young-ki explained that as businesses diversify, the losses incurred from failures increase, and the more critical the operations, the more essential active-active becomes.
In the HA market, changes in pricing policies and technical support issues of foreign solutions are considered factors driving demand for domestic solutions. Foreign products have increased total cost of ownership burdens due to shifts to subscription licensing, per-core billing, and rising maintenance costs. In contrast, MCCS offers a licensing policy and direct technical support system adapted to the domestic environment. Notably, the recent rise in server prices has also impacted active-active design approaches. With the introduction of high-performance servers and AI infrastructure, the cost of individual physical devices has increased, forcing enterprises to consider more efficient recovery architectures within the same budget. Bae Jong-moo (phonetic), Director of the Mantec Solutions Technology Research Institute, stated that with rising server prices, it is difficult to adhere strictly to a simple 1:1 active-active structure. The direction of sharing physical server costs through multi-node configurations while ensuring service stability is becoming important.
Mantec Solutions positions its 24/7 technical support service center as a core competency of MCCS. Currently, R&D and technical support personnel account for 82% of the company's total workforce. The ability of its in-house research institute and service center to jointly analyze client environments and respond directly to failures is considered a differentiator from foreign solutions or open-source HA. Noh Young-ki emphasized that using active-active means that a failure in that operation immediately leads to cost losses. The service provided by a specialized HA company with direct support inevitably differs from that of a general technical support organization. MCCS is also replacing foreign solutions in mission-critical environments like finance, expanding its influence. Some clients have switched to MCCS due to the technical support limitations and cost issues of existing foreign cluster solutions, and this backflow demand is increasing recently.
Mantec Solutions plans to elevate the product's competitiveness to the next level by launching MCCS 5.0 by the end of this year. This upgrade is expected to be more than a simple version update; it is anticipated to be a process of realigning the HA technology accumulated over 20 years around user convenience and operational automation. MCCS 5.0 plans to significantly improve the web graphical user interface, designed to allow intuitive viewing of active-active status and failure situations on a dashboard. The focus is on transforming the operational environment, which was previously centered on skilled engineers, into a structure easily understandable by general client personnel. Bae Jong-moo stated that while the existing 4.x version has many functions, its structure is more suitable for skilled engineers. The newly launched 5.0 strengthens the user-centric interface, allowing client users to immediately know whether the active-active status is normal and which service has failed just by looking at the screen.
In terms of performance, lightweight design is emphasized. It is crucial that the HA solution does not impact existing business services. Bae Jong-moo explained that MCCS 5.0 significantly reduces CPU and network usage compared to the existing version, thereby lowering operational burdens. Functionally, it will add support for up to 16-node multi-node clusters, enhanced anomaly detection, resource monitoring, non-disruptive updates, group dependency-based failover, and quorum functions. In particular, multi-node support allows multiple servers to form a single cluster, enabling more flexible active-active configurations.
Mantec Solutions plans to develop MCCS into an AI-based integrated availability platform in the long term. The direction involves gradually applying features such as real-time guidance via AI chatbots, fault cause analysis, predictive models, and self-healing. Considering the nature of HA solutions, the focus is not on directly embedding large AI models but on collecting system operational data and using lightweight models to detect signs of failure. Additionally, the company is strengthening the linkage between MCCS and its proprietary real-time replication solution Reflex, DR automation solution MDRM, and container platform Accordion. The goal is to help clients comprehensively operate their IT infrastructure around the 24/7 technical support service center. Noh Young-ki emphasized that the reason MCCS has been chosen by the market for a long time lies in product stability and a technical support system that can respond immediately when clients need it. Going forward, it will continue to serve as a partner safeguarding clients' critical operations, evolving beyond server active-active into an integrated availability platform.
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