MAYNARD, MA--(Marketwire - June 15, 2010) - Stratus Technologies is betting $50,000 that Tier 1 enterprise applications are virtualization-ready -- provided they are running VMware vSphere™ 4 on the Stratus® ftServer® platform.
The Zero Downtime $50K Guarantee announced today promises new and existing Stratus customers 100 percent uptime for newly purchased ftServer 6300 systems running VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions. Any unplanned downtime caused by the failure of the server or virtualization platform during the first six months after being placed into production will put $50,000 cash or product credit in the customer's hand. The program is open to end-user customers worldwide and runs through December 31, 2010. Conditions and exclusions apply.
A VMware global partner, Stratus has customers running mission-critical applications today on Stratus ftServer and VMware vSphere 4 combined solutions including: a global financial services firm; a major U.S. government agency; one of America's leading credit card processors; and a 192-bed acute care hospital with 26 outlying primary and specialty care centers.
Australia's Westpac Institutional Bank recently virtualized a funds transfer application suite: "We chose ftServer for this critical banking service because our clients have zero tolerance for downtime," said Leigh Mahoney, Westpac executive director, core banking and transactional services. "The ftServer is more than a technology; it's peace of mind."
As more IT organizations look to virtualize Tier 1 applications and include cloud infrastructure designs in their IT strategies, the need for complete, bullet-proof availability increases dramatically. Stratus is collaborating with VMware to address this need.
According to Chris Rimer, director, ISV Alliances at VMware, "VMware vSphere and Stratus ftServer x86 servers comprise an ideal solution for virtualizing Tier 1 applications. Stratus believes strongly in the value of our complementary technologies and is willing to put $50,000 on the line to prove that the joint solution delivers the efficiency, availability and performance required by customers virtualizing business-critical applications."
Stratus ftServer systems running VMware vSphere provide Windows and Linux operating environments with 99.9999 percent uptime, or the equivalent of thirty-two seconds of unplanned downtime per year. Powered by 2.93 GHz X5570 Intel Quad-Core Xeon™ processors, the ftServer 6300 system is optimized for large data center multi-tasking applications with high transaction rates such as credit card authorization processing and high-speed ATM networks, and as a powerful engine for database applications and data center virtualization.
"Our customers have told us for decades that the only truly effective way to ensure the highest uptime for mission critical applications is by delivering solutions where the hardware, software and services work in concert," said Roy Sanford, Stratus chief marketing officer. "Stratus is pleased to extend this uptime protection to VMware vSphere customers for their most critical applications."
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