Uptime Assurance for Financial Services

Anytime, Anywhere Multi-channel 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
Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX)

Uptime assurance drives Middle East’s core trading platform

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Strategic Payments Services

24/7 uptime for mission-critical ATM and POS processing in Australia

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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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Elavon, Inc.

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

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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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S1 Active/Active Software on Stratus ftServer Systems

Protect your payments processing environment against the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime. Used together, the S1 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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Mission-Critical Fault Tolerance for Financial Transaction Processing

Windows-based payments solutions from S1 and Stratus deliver mainframe-class uptime assurance. Stratus fault-tolerant servers running Windows Server 2008 and industry-leading S1 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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Real time, All the Time Fraud Risk Management from Alaric and Stratus

Traditionally, fraud-detection systems have been just that, systems that can detect fraud after the event. The new generation of anti-fraud systems from Alaric and Stratus work in real time — the same pace as the payments systems they are trying to protect.

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Future Direction in Building Customer Loyalty: Creating a Rewarding Customer Experience

The future loyalty battlefield will be about the customer experience: how you treat your customers at every point of interaction with them — this white paper examines the requirements for success in this new world order of loyalty, and identifies critical action steps required to realize this new vision for loyalty and rewards.

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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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