As students settle back into classrooms for the 25/26 school year—whether virtually, in hybrid settings, or face-to-face—data infrastructure is under increasing stress. Schools, universities, and ed-tech platforms are tasked with delivering 24×7 access to student information systems, virtual classrooms, digital libraries, and more. Not to mention, educational institutions are wholly responsible for keeping the sensitive personal info and records of their enrolled students safe and secure.
DxEnterprise High Availability software steps in to be a perfect answer for the education sector on all fronts—offering an easy to manage, combined high availability and network security solution.
What Makes DxEnterprise a Secure, School-Ready Solution?
1. Infrastructure Agnostic — Mix, Match, and Modernize
DxEnterprise supports SQL Server instances across Windows, Linux, containers, VMs, bare-metal servers, and cloud environments—allowing schools to build resilient clusters across on-campus systems and cloud deployments.
That means different departments or campuses can use the infrastructure that works best for them, without sacrificing availability or manageability. DxEnterprise lets you manage your full SQL Server environment one way, the same way.
2. Proprietary Failover Capabilities with Industry-Leading Performance
DxEnterprise enables fully automatic failover across your entire clustered environment—even for SQL Server Availability Groups running in Kubernetes. In other words, you have a standalone HA clustering replacement for both Windows and Linux that completely eliminates the need for complex technologies like Pacemaker or Windows Server Failover Clustering.
3. Built-In Software-Defined Perimeter Security
To address the protection of sensitive data assets and ensure secure network connectivity, DxEnterprise includes seamlessly integrated software-defined perimeter (SDP) capabilities (also available as a standalone software product for orgs that don’t require HA clustering).
DxEnterprise allows you to create highly available zero trust network access (ZTNA) tunnels across any infrastructure, anywhere. It enables granular application-level access to only approved users/machines—all without the reliance on any physical networking appliances.
4. Cost-Effective Without Compromise
Through consolidation, infrastructure flexibility, and decreased total downtime, institutions can reduce operating costs.
DxEnterprise brings especially powerful cost savings advantages for institutions running SQL Server on Windows Server. Organizations adopting this technology to manage their Windows installations have seen licensing costs reduced drastically by 30–60%—all while staying 100% compliant with Microsoft’s licensing terms.
The secret to these powerful benefits lies in DxEnterprise’s proprietary InstanceMobility® technology and Vhost architecture:
- InstanceMobility decouples workloads from the underlying hardware or OS to enable effortless migration.
- A Vhost acts as a lightweight, portable network wrapper: one IP, one hostname, freely movable to any host.
Why This Matters for Schools & Universities
Uncompromised Uptime
Whether it’s exam platforms, student portals, or cloud-based learning tools, DxEnterprise ensures near-zero downtime—planned or unexpected—as well as the ability to recover systems promptly with advanced failover automation.
Secure Access, Anywhere
Students and faculty can access essential resources locally on campus, or from remote locations, and they can do so securely and reliably without burdening IT with VPN complexity.
Not only does SDP provide a much more easily scaled network security solution than VPNs and their accompanying physical appliances, but it also reduces potential attack surface. A compromised VPN can lead to full network compromise, whereas SDP provides app-level security and threat isolation—eliminating any lateral attack surface for bad actors.
Scalable, Future-Ready Architecture
As ed-tech grows—from AI-powered tutoring platforms to immersive virtual labs—DxEnterprise’s container support and Kubernetes integration means your IT environments can scale securely and efficiently.
As we look to the future, head to our other blog to learn about the capabilities that DxEnterprise is already bringing to the public preview release of SQL Server 2025?
Flexible and Efficient Operations
DxEnterprise allows organizations to easily integrate any infrastructure or cloud into their existing clustering framework. Resultantly, less time wrestling with infrastructure means more time focused on educational priorities, student success, and strategic tech deployment.
It’s Never Been Easier to Prioritize HA & Security
This back-to-school season, stop tackling availability and network security with separate solutions. DxEnterprise provides all the functionality needed to ensure academic platforms and resources remain accessible, secure, and scalable. Intelligent automatic failover and SDP security free up industry IT teams to use their time for innovation so that educators, students, and administrators can focus on what matters most: learning.
Ready to Put DxEnterprise to Work in Your Institution?
Consider requesting a personalized demo or free trial to see how it can modernize your SQL Server infrastructure with improved uptime, security, and cost efficiency that’s tailor-made for academic environments.
If you’re interested in learning more about DH2i’s approach to smart high availability technology, get signed up for a one-on-one demo today.
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