Stratus

Stratus ftServer

Continuous availability made easy

Ensuring 5 Nines Uptime (99.99999%) of System Availability for Critical Applications Stratus Uptime Meter

Simple to deploy, simple to manage, simple to service

In today’s always-on global economy, seconds matter. Downtime in critical business applications can have far-reaching economic, security and legal consequences. Recovering from a failure, no matter how fast, is simply no longer an option. What companies need today is failure prevention, not failure recovery.

Stratus offers quick and easy failure prevention with ftServer. Conventional technologies like clustering and virtualization-based HA do not prevent downtime, but rely on recovering from hardware or software failures. And this recovery time can vary, from minutes to hours. Only ftServer prevents the downtime of your critical business applications, ensuring continuous availability, even when your underlying hardware components fail.

Stratus ftServer is a fully integrated, continuously available hardware and software solution for running tier 1 business critical workloads and manufacturing operations and control applications. Offering better than 5 nines availability, ftServer eliminates unplanned downtime and data loss, and ensures all transactions are processed and applications are available, helping companies maximize revenue, production quality, and productivity. Unlike other high availability solutions, ftServer is easy to deploy, manage and service, making it ideal for remote locations, or environments with IT resource constraints. A single, turnkey solution leverages industry standard components to deliver industry leading RAS, accelerating time to value, simplifying management, and lowering total cost of ownership.

Key Benefits

ftServer is a fully integrated continuously available platform that helps companies maximize revenue, quality, and productivity:

• No unplanned downtime: Greater than 5 nines availability through redundant components, lockstep firmware, and data synchronization
• No data corruption or data loss: All transactions processed because the system keeps operating despite component failure
• Faster time to value: Easy to deploy and manage, with no ISV application modifications or failover scripts required
• Increased operational efficiency: Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-alerting systems save you time and effort

Automated Uptime Layer

Unique to Stratus, redundant field programmable gate arrays, data paths, and lockstep firmware provide the processor synchronization, data replication, and logic needed to ensure continuous availability, even in the event of a hardware component failure.

Single system with redundant hardware

Every single ftServer system is made up of two identical customer replaceable units (CRUs) – each with their own processors, memory, and storage. All redundant components and subsystems are packaged as a single system, reducing licensing costs and simplifying management.

Industry standard components

ftServer uses the same chipsets, DIMMs, and drives, as those found in other industry standard x86 systems. It also uses standard shrink-wrapped operating system and virtualization software, for ease of management and faster time to value.

Active Service Architecture

ftServer’s automated self-monitoring, alerting, self-diagnosing, and remediation capabilities are enabled by its Active Service Architecture. By simplifying ftServer monitoring and management, and by filtering issues which require action, Stratus saves companies time and effort.

Hot swappable customer replaceable units

ftServer is designed for serviceability, with hot swappable CRUs that can be removed without powering down the system, and replaced without using special tools. That and automatic data re-synchronization make ftServer suitable for deployment in remote manufacturing locations, or locations with limited IT resources.

ftServer models

ftServer is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and easy to service. Three different ftServer models meet most every enterprise workload, environment, and budget.

ftServer 2900

Affordability for stable, fixed standalone applications in remote offices, branch offices, or shop floor locations

ftServer 4900

Versatility for rapidly growing or evolving applications in regional offices, remote plants, or regional data centers

ftServer 6900

High performance for data-intensive or transaction-intensive applications in larger remote plants or corporate data centers

everRun

Customized Application Availability

Quickly transform your applications into continuously available solutions with customized application availability, accelerating time to revenue

everRun simplifies the process of meeting your changing availability requirements. A highly versatile, yet affordable continuously available software solution, everRun combined with industry standard x86 systems quickly and easily protects your virtualized workloads and data. Use everRun to rapidly and cost effectively deliver the levels of continuous availability you need, when and where you need them.

Key Benefits

Select the levels of availability that maximize your revenue, safety, and return on investment:

Customize your availability environment

Easily adjust the availability level of each VM to meet your changing requirements and SLAs.

Protect your corporate data

Eliminate data corruption and data loss. Software-based checkpointing protects both replicated and in-flight data.

Accelerate time to value

Quickly implement both highly available and continuously available platforms with no application modifications.

Ensure business continuity

Replicate applications and data at multiple metro area sites to protect against building-wide disaster.