High Availability Software Solutions from Stratus
Superior Uptime at Lower Cost
IT organizations are classifying more applications than ever as business critical. But, when it comes to selecting the right high-availability (HA) solution, they find themselves at a loss. Truth be told, there’s a lot to choose from and the definition of what constitutes HA varies widely. At best, traditional HA clusters and stand-by solutions are designed to recover after a failure has occurred. And they are expensive and time-consuming to install and maintain.
Stratus' award-winning Avance software redefines your expectations of high availability on every front. Designed to run on industry-standard x86 servers, Avance software is the only HA solution that automatically detects, isolates and handles faults delivering far superior uptime and performance at a fraction of the cost of clusters or standby solutions.
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Uptime Level |
Average Yearly Downtime |
| Conventional |
99% |
87 hours, 40 minutes |
Traditional HA
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99.9%
99.95% |
8 hours, 46 minutes
4 hours, 23 minutes |
| Avance HA |
99.99% |
52 minutes, 36 seconds |
Fault Tolerance
"Continuous Availability" |
99.999%
99.9999% |
5 minutes, 16 seconds
31.6 seconds |
In addition to superior uptime and lower cost, Avance eliminates the need for programming, complex configuration, and constant oversight by highly skilled IT personnel. It's clearly the best HA solution for small-to-mid-sized organizations — hands down. This highly automated software solution makes it quick and easy for your organization to:
- Achieve superior automatic uptime at lower cost than traditional HA
- Replace complex clusters with automated simplicity that addresses the number one cause of downtime — human error
- Support Microsoft Windows and Linux applications without any modifications or specialized IT expertise
- Leverage configuration options that enable you to consolidate existing x86 infrastructure
- Implement affordable disaster recovery using Avance split-site deployment capabilities
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When you need an economical high-availability platform that offers superior support for business-critical applications, Avance software delivers. Stratus 24/7 support technology built into our high-availability software, automatically detects and resolves faults, and enables advanced online remote service.
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Avance HA software
offers low-cost, high availability that can be easily implemented without specialized staffing or expertise. Upon installation, Avance software automatically transforms a pair of x86 servers into a high-availability platform with uptime that exceeds 99.99%, the equivalent of less than one hour of downtime on an annualized basis.
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24/7 software support
is integral to the way we safeguard uptime with Avance HA. Your software support coverage ensures immediate resolution from high-impact issues, timely incident resolution, quality fixes and prompt attention to routine requests and maintenance updates.
Lengede Township, Germany
What do you do when you have minimal staff to operate your town government’s IT infrastructure, and system availability is essential? That’s the dilemma faced by the township of Lengede in Lower Saxony, Germany. The township chose Stratus Avance software because it provides a high availability solution that turns any two x86 servers into a high availability, virtualized solution assuring 99.99% uptime. Equally important, it was installed in minutes and requires minimal ongoing maintenance.
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Stader Daily Newspaper
The Stader Daily newspaper ensures high availability for its business-critical communications servers with a Stratus Avance
® virtualization solution. The Avance solution was simple to implement and significantly more cost-effective than alternative solutions.
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German Automobile Club ADAC
The German Automobile Club (ADAC) of Lower Saxony/Saxony-Anhalt selected Stratus Avance software to run its “Digital Diagnostics” project. Today, their mobile test lane, built in a semi-trailer equipped with the most up-to-date technology, offers vehicle inspections to Germany’s fourth largest ADAC region of 1.2 million members.
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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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Stratus Avance 2.0 expands uptime protection, management ease for SMBs’ critical applications
High availability software overcomes concerns about tight budgets and finite technical skills.
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Stratus ultra-high server uptime with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is DB security, availability and performance at its best
ftServer line brings the added dimension of true fault tolerance with 99.9999 percent field-proven uptime to world's most popular database software.
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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.
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Best Practices for Protecting Virtualized Applications
Aberdeen Group research finds that Best-in-Class companies prefer fault-tolerant servers over other high availability solutions to protect their virtualized applications against downtime.
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Datacenter Downtime: How Much Does It Really Cost?
The Aberdeen Group reports that the dream of perfect, or near-perfect, datacenter uptime is still just a dream for all but a tiny fraction of organizations. In February 2012, Aberdeen conducted in-depth analysis of a number of factors surrounding datacenter downtime. Survey respondents were asked questions concerning the average number of downtime events per year, the average length of an event, the cost per hour of downtime and the time it took to recover 90% of business operations following a business interruption. Read the report to understand industry norms, where your organization fits, and what actions can be taken.
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