Maximum Uptime Protection for Every Enterprise

Guaranteed Uptime and Data Integrity

Global and multi-national businesses have selected Stratus services, servers and third-party partner solutions to support mission-critical applications for more than three decades. Today, increased demands for 24/7 services delivery, tougher regulatory mandates, and growing threats to information integrity and security are raising the bar even further for CIOs and their staff members. With so much at stake, many companies are demanding and measuring their IT effectiveness on the ability to deliver higher and higher service level agreements (SLAs) for critical business operations.

These enterprises look to Stratus for certified solutions that can achieve or surpass exacting industry standards. Solutions that deliver guaranteed maximum uptime, performance and data integrity; ensure compliance with regulatory standards; drive industrial applications at remote or lights-out locations. In short, they count on Stratus availability to support any business function that drives success, profitability, or customer satisfaction.   

Today, you'll find Stratus driving mission-critical operations and providing enterprise-wide support in: 

  • 8 of the worlds top 10 banks
  • 10 of the top 13 pharmaceutical manufacturers
  • 3 of Asia's top auto makers 
  • 15 of the top 20 telecom providers
  • The world's largest air, sea, and land transportation systems
  • Major utilities companies,

and in any other business segment you can name that must operate 24/7/365 without fail.

  1. KEY SOLUTIONS
  3. CASE STUDIES
  5. NEWS
  7. RESOURCES

Stratus support technology, built into our fault-tolerant hardware and software, automatically detects and resolves faults, and enables advanced online remote service. Optimized for online transaction processing, these platforms from Stratus include:

  • ftServer systems  run Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware vSphere operating environments. These systems leverage the latest Intel QuickPath architecture and quad-core and hex-core processors to deliver maximum power and performance for mission-critical environments and workloads. 
  • V Series systems run Stratus OpenVOS and VOS operating systems. These powerful platforms unite the stability of the OpenVOS operating system with the power and performance of leading-edge Intel multi-core processors and the strongest availability program in the industry.
  • Continuum systems combine symmetric multiprocessing technology with Stratus fault-tolerant architecture and VOS operating system 
  • Enterprise storage systems Stratus SAN solutions provide highly available storage consolidation and sharing that customers can rely on to ensure connectivity, expandability and simplicity of operation.
OpenVOS Tools in Fortune 500 Corporations

Improving operational management of mission-critical systems with VOS Essentials from Stratus and ARI.

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Elavon, Inc.

Payment processor looks to Stratus to address concerns about availability, as they take advantage of VMware virtualization technologies

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PCI Compliance in Multi-National Corporations

A major financial institution with 200 million customers in more than 100 countries, a major US bank with more than 6,000 branches, and a major European entertainment company strengthening security of mission-critical systems with VOS Auditor from Stratus and ARI

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Westpac Institutional Bank

Westpac Institutional Bank selected the ftServer platform and ftScalable storage for its first virtualized front-end processing infrastructure. The system supports more than a dozen critical applications including a file transfer service with transaction values that exceed AUD$1.25M per minute.

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Industry’s best uptime engineered into Stratus’ new hex-core server and storage array
“No Fear” of data loss for transaction-intensive, virtual Tier 1, and mission-critical workloads.
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Independent testing: Virtualization software on fault-tolerant servers delivers unmatched performance, uptime
Tier 1 applications run smoothly and without interruption, Principled Laboratories finds.
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Stratus Technologies’ VMware vSphere guarantee: 100% uptime or $50,000 cash
Targets virtualization of Tier 1 enterprise workloads.
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Companies require higher availability, but settle for less, survey says
ITIC/Stratus Technologies Survey shows increasing willingness to accept more downtime.
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Principled Technologies' Test Report

Fault Tolerant Server: Performance Scalability and Data Loss Prevention The ultimate in availability for your VMware virtual environment.
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Forrester Thought Leadership paper: Server Availability in the Time of Electronic Health Records

Read what the move to paperless medical records means for server reliability.

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ARC Advisory Group Pat and the Need for High Availability Platforms

Continuing advances in biomedical technology, new and emerging compliance requirements, socio-political pressures, and global competition are driving new mission critical systems into pharmaceutical manufacturing. This paper looks at the hardware and system implications of the new regulatory environment.

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STRATUS OVERVIEW

This 2-page corporate overview (PDF) summarizes Stratus’ uptime assurance capabilities. Discover the unique value our customers and partners receive  ̶  worry-free computing that ensures uptime, all the time.