JIRA Data Center – Atlassian In The Enterprise
Atlassian has long been recognised as a leading player in the Enterprise software industry, certainly with regards to software development.
- February 25, 2018
Atlassian has long been recognised as a leading player in the Enterprise software industry, certainly with regards to software development, and their latest announcement is a big statement regarding their ambitions for the Enterprise.
Data Center is a new deployment option, currently for JIRA and Confluence (with Stash in Beta), that is designed for high availability and performance at scale when hosting Atlassian’s applications in your own data center.
Atlassian say that around 25,000 companies and their 8.5 million employees use JIRA daily. With the Data Center version of JIRA, larger companies will be able to support and scale easier, leading to improvements in performance and stability.
As Atlassian’s number one Enterprise Experts we can help you get started. For some useful links scroll to the bottom of this post.
How does Data Center work?
With Data Center administrators will be able to route certain applications, teams or geographies to specific nodes in a cluster. Additional nodes can be added in real time and the clustering technology, and shared file systems are integrated with most industry standard technologies.
Historically scaling JIRA meant complex tuning of very large single instances or federating multiple JIRA instances throughout an organization. Although practical these solutions did not match the flexibility deployed in many Enterprises through virtual infrastructures.
Now, with Data Center, Enterprises get active-active clustering to ensure users have uninterrupted access to critical applications in the event of unexpected hardware failure. Distribute load across your cluster utilizing any load-balancing technology – hardware or software based.
You can also integrate with industry standard technologies for database clustering and shared files systems to eliminate single points of failure in your architecture. For more information check out Ken Olufsen’s blog here.
How much will JIRA Data Center cost?
JIRA Data Center is available at $24,000.00 per year, per tier of 1,000 users. Also, as we mentioned in our recent blog, Atlassian have restructured their licensing models to account for the new Enterprise offering.
JIRA Data Center requirements
- You can continue to use application links with JIRA Data Center to link multiple Atlassian applications together. JIRA Data Center supports Applinks version 4.2.1 and later.
- JIRA Data Center requires multicast networking.
- You can use many plugins with JIRA Data Center. For information about the use of plugins with JIRA Data Center, see the Plugin guide to JIRA high availability and clustering.
How to learn more
As with all queries about Atlassian and the Enterprise you can contact our team for expert advice on scaling and performance. We can procure your Data Center license on your behalf and help with implementation.
Other useful resources:
- Installing JIRA Data Center. Atlassian’s page provides a step by step guide and pre-requisite information for installation.
- Plugin Guide. Plugin Guide to JIRA High Availability and Clustering.
- Atlassian Data Center. More info on the Clearvision website.
- JIRA Data Center webinar now on Atlassian’s YouTube channel.
- Migrating to Data Center. Two of Atlassian’s TAM team did a very useful session at Summit 14, which you can watch on YouTube.
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