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Unmatched Uptime for Financial Services Applications

Maximize Uptime for Multi-Channel Financial Services Delivery

From credit unions to banks to securities firms and stock exchanges, your customers are looking for ways to quickly and securely complete a multitude of financial transactions  ̶  whether over the Internet, by telephone, at a local branch office, through an ATM, or via debit/credit cards. Stratus is the proven provider of round-the-clock uptime with decades of expertise in payments processing and other mission-critical financial services. Our team integrates perpetual monitoring services with reliable hardware and software technologies to deliver assured uptime for your most critical business areas. Combined with applications from leading financial services partners, these solutions enable your organization to:

  • Guarantee the highest levels of uptime and data protection for multi-channel services delivery
  • Develop personalized levels of service for customers
  • Reduce the overall cost per transaction
  • Speed time-to-market for new services and features through existing networks or new delivery channels
  • Accommodate network and transaction growth
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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. You can rely on Stratus and our partners’ uptime expertise in applications such as:

  Retail Banking

  • ATM
  • POS debit/credit
  • Internet banking
  • Branch banking
  • Call center
  • Electronic funds transfer (EFT)
  • Fraud management

Corporate banking

  • Cash management
  • Funds transfer
  • SWIFT

Capital markets

  • Order management
  • Electronic trading
  • Market data systems
Makro, South Africa

Learn how ACI’s active/active architecture and Stratus ftServer systems future-proof this leading retailer’s EFT credit and debit card processing infrastructure.

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Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX)

Uptime assurance drives Middle East’s core trading platform

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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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Stratus ftServers with VMware answer need for resiliency in critical banking services
One of Australia’s leading financial institutions has chosen Stratus Technologies’ hardware for a new virtual infrastructure that hosts a file transfer application directly accessed by clients who use the service to exchange critical financial data representing more than AUS$1.25 million in transactions per minute.
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Alaric Authentic on Stratus ftServer Systems

This high-performance multi-channel EFT switching, routing, and payment authorization system delivers total availability for financial services transactions. Alaric Authentic on Stratus ftServer systems brings issuers, acquirers and processors a readily adaptable payments platform that accepts transactions from emerging payment channels and fully meets regulatory and compliance requirements. Optimized for high-volume, real-time transaction processing, this proven open systems solution authorized over six billion transactions per year at one global customer -- with uptime in excess of 99.99999%.

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Alaric Fractals Fraud Detection and Prevention

Conquer payments fraud in real time with Alaric Fractals and Stratus ftServer systems. The solution’s cost-effective implementation and industry-leading fraud detection rates deliver a rapid return on investment. Its low false positive ratios improve investigator efficiency and ensure customer satisfaction. Running on ftServer platforms, this integrated fraud detection system analyzes high-volume, multi-channel transactions in real time ̶ prior to authorization. ftServer systems are optimized for 24/7 transaction processing, delivering the continuous uptime and reliability that real-time fraud detection systems require.

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ACI Active/Active Software on Stratus ftServer Systems

Protect your payments processing environment against the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime. Used together, the ACI and Stratus solutions protect your payments processing environment against the full spectrum of downtime threats: hardware failure, software and operating system failure, network failure, and site failure, and also enable uptime during planned maintenance procedures. This paper explores these issues in depth and explains the many advantages this powerful complementary product combination offers.

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ACI Mission-Critical Fault Tolerance for Financial Transaction Processing

Windows-based payments solutions from ACI and Stratus deliver mainframe-class uptime assurance. Stratus fault-tolerant servers running Windows Server 2008 and industry-leading ACI Corporations’ payments solutions deliver reliability, availability, and functionality that match or exceed traditional mainframe and UNIX solutions — at a much lower total cost of ownership.

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Stratus in Financial Services

Reliable, affordable uptime and power for high-volume transactions and multi-channel services delivery.

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CASE STUDY

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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SightLine Performance Suite

Proactively manage the performance of servers, applications, databases, virtual machines and other network elements.

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