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Robust Availability for Disaster Recovery

Preserving Business Data in the Face of Disaster

If you’re running mission- or business-critical applications, you have essential data and system information that must be preserved and readily accessible in the face of disaster. And, while traditional backup solutions may be satisfactory for non-critical business applications, they are insufficient for real-time transaction-based operations, virtualized environments and in small or mid-sized operations running critical applications.

Stratus range of fault-tolerant hardware platforms offers maximum DR protection for your mission-critical operations while our high-availability Avance software platform ensures minimal downtime and rapid recovery from localized disaster. These solutions allow you to:

  • Perform real-time mirroring between the production system and a back-up site
  • Maintain the performance of the primary production system, keeping the backup system transparent to users
  • Ensure the remote database is identical to the primary database at all times
  • Maintain transaction processing with no interruptions during security upgrades
  • Provide hands-free operation 24/7
  • Leverage virtualization technologies to automate disaster recovery and reduce costs
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Stratus support technology, built into our fault-tolerant server hardware and high-availability software, automatically detects and resolves faults, and enables advanced online remote service. Rely on Stratus for the infrastructure and expertise you need to support disaster recovery strategies in:

  • Enterprise data centers:  Stratus’ full-function fault-tolerant servers and storage guarantee the highest levels of uptime and data protection to support traditional disaster recovery solutions or virtualized DR strategies with partner solutions including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization.
  • Small and medium businesses: Avance HA software offers split-site deployment that ensures minimal downtime and rapid recovery form localized disaster. Unlike disaster recovery solutions that simply keep a copy of data in backup, your Avance solution continues to replicate data to the second location in real time.
Allegheny County Emergency Services 9-1-1 Division

Allegheny County’s Emergency Services 9-1-1 Division handles 4,500 to 5,000 calls for police, fire and EMS dispatch services each day. Preventing unplanned downtime was a non-negotiable criterion in the county’s RFP process, and a primary reason for installing Stratus ftServer systems. At the County’s primary site, two CAD applications run in virtual machines (VMs) on one ftServer system while a second ftServer system supports the Microsoft SQL CAD database. The overflow/disaster recovery site mirrors primary-site operations in near real-time and can take over complete operations in a very short period of time.

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Retail chain

After a technical glitch caused a painful experience with downtime, this large and growing U.S. retail chain decided to extend business continuity protection to its 23 stores spread across seven states. The solution needed to maintain network segmentation to meet security and PCI compliance standards for the chain’s Point-of-Sale (POS) application. In addition, they wanted to eliminate the $15 to $20K per location expense that a SAN deployment would incur. Avance software fit the bill. Its split-site capabilities provide localized disaster recovery and business continuity at each store location – without the need for a SAN.

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Disaster Recovery in Mission-Critical Environments

Ensuring business continuity of mission-critical systems with Disaster Recovery Mirroring System from Stratus and ARI.

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Aging infrastructure is IT’s spending target for 2010, survey reveals
Disaster recovery and more server virtualization underscore need for highly available server platforms. Balancing tight budgets with an unrelenting demand for services, IT organizations are pressing ahead in 2010 with unfinished projects, and investing in hardware and software to reinvigorate infrastructure with an eye toward long-term strategic IT requirements, according to a survey of 650 IT professionals.  
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Fault Tolerance in a Virtual World

The Criticality Quotient of x86 servers and applications directly correlates to the number of business processes, users and applications dependent on virtual machines and infrastructure. This white paper examines five typical use cases for virtualization, answering why, where and how fault-tolerance can help businesses reduce risk.

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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.