After many attempts at scheduling a meeting, i was finally able to speak with stratus about their new virtual machineclusteringha software offering. Avance software delivers that assurance and a good deal more. Stratus avance high availability software is for businesses requiring the most reliable and affordable solution for keeping critical applications running. Stratus moves fault tolerance from hardware to software. Stratus technologies makes faulttolerant servers that can be configured with its proprietary avance high availability software. Much like the ftserver system software, it monitors. Whether you manage an assembly line, an oil and gas pipeline, water treatment plant, a smart building process, or biotechnology and device organization, you need to turn data into actionable results. The final selection was a highavailability software solution from stratus the leader in it uptime assurance for thirty years. There, i got three acronyms into the title of a post. Stratus avance high availability software i stratus technologies. Avance is everything thats good about traditional highavailability ha clusters with none of whats bad. Stratus avance high availability software i stratus. The mib is a database of objects that can be monitored by a network management system.
Stratus technologies just launched a new version of its avance high availability platform that supports intel xeon e5 sandy bridge processorpowered servers. When the unit shuts down, the console is unavailable. The server vendors, whose ftserver systems offer redundant components to ensure high availability, on june 10 is unveiling its stratus avance software, which has the opensource xenserver. Avance can create a highavailability virtualization platform from two standard servers.
Stratus technologies avance software provides enterprises with a lowoverhead solution for bringing high availability to applications hosted in branch offices and extends the benefits of ha to. Stratus, one of the best known suppliers of continuous processing technology, is merging and refining two of its products to extend performance, manageability and scalability. Software ist eine integrierte, bedienerfreundliche losung, einmalig, wenn es um hochverfugbarkeit ha geht. Seneca, a leader in innovative technology solutions and stratus technologies, today announced that seneca will integrate stratus avance high availability software on its nexlink server line. Stratus avance protects workloads via virtualization. Stratus acquires competing ha software provider marathon cio. The purchase of marathon will allow stratus to offer a more sophisticated faulttolerant software package with everrun mx. Stratus ap stratus customer success stories 20 by bee. From engine management through various safety systems to onboard entertainment, cars come fully stocked with electronics.
Stratus fault tolerant server buyers guide serverwatch. Stop worrying about complexity, specialized it staff, and cluster aware applications. Avance is the answer for midsize firms, delivering superior uptime thats simple to use for a fraction of the price of clusters. The stratus avance software used citrix zen virtualization to move the vm from one server to another based on server availability and server health. Technical advances in the automobile industry have turned cars into computer centers on wheels. Stratus announces splitsite disaster recovery and iscsi. Is pi support on citrix zen stratus avance ha software using citirx zen server. If unsuccessful, log in to the avance management console. It is not an ha clustering solution, where the backup node waits for the primary to.
With the introduction of splitsite, avance transforms business continuity execution for small and midsize. Automatic high availability, effortless virtualization avance software enables ordinary x86 servers to deliver greater than 99. Comprehensive high availability and fault tolerant software solution for virtualized tier 1 applications. Refer to accessing dom0 for details support for intel ivy bridge processors. Stratus acquires competing ha software provider marathon. Stratus avance is designed to prevent downtime, data loss and business interruption. The stratus avance software solution is the answer for businesses requiring the most reliable and affordable solution for keeping critical applications up and running. Stratus avance software transforms your business in minutes any small to medium business that has a number of generalpurpose servers, with each running its own application, can benefit from avance software. Stratus originated as a provider of ha servers, which are now sold under the name ftserver.
These downloads allow your snmp network management software to decipher snmp alarms for ztc edge systems. After several discussions and presentations with stratus personnel and a couple i am seriously consider stratus avance to use as a high availability solution. Stratus technologies and shanghai hitech look to triple. Use the vm console or a remote desktop application to log in to the vm. Stratus slides avance virtual clusters onto xeon e5. Intel esaa program features stratus avance software as. With stratus avance high availability software you get an easytouse, cluster alternative that reinvents highavailability for multiple environments. Stratus solutions collect and analyze data at the source the edge of your core business processes. Stratus offers product support and managed service programs covering continuous availability and. Stratus enhances disaster recovery in avance software. Intel esaa program features stratus avance software as first certified product for high availability. Stratus new avance software delivers lowcost high availability, virtualization and. The fact that virtualization is already built in to avance software arms our channel partners with a compelling, costeffective solution to offer their customers.
The avance software, along with an online monitoring service from stratus, automatically monitors the two hardware systems for faults, switching processing to the surviving hardware system if one. Stratus technologies has revved up avance, its highavailability clustering software that hosts virtual servers. Is pi support on citrix zen stratus avance ha software. With uptime that is far superior to clusters or standby solutions, avance has simple installation. With ztc edge systems running stratus redundant linux srl software, you need to download the mibs if you are running snmp. The highavailability virtualization software lets smbs connect two x86 servers and run. Stratus ftserver ftscalable systems relitronics india pvt. With the ambulatory emr system set to be fully operational by the end of 2011, apd is.
In a move to expand its scope of providing high availability ha and fault tolerant systems, stratus technologies has acquired privately held marathon technologies, an application availability software provider based in littleton, massachusetts. Stratus technologies partners with seneca to resell avance. That was just about as much fun as getting the wall street journal to. Subsequently, stratus released ha software called avance for small and mediumsized businesses that run commodity hardware. Avance documentation users guide stratus technologies.
Refer to the avance compatibility matrix for details. Nexlink server pairs, combined with avance high availability software, give our vars a highly tested solution to offer smbs to protect their data easily and economically. There is only one instance running at any given time. Stratus offers the best availability solutions on the market.
Stratus technologies partners with seneca to resell avance software for uptime assurance. Infoworld awards stratus avance 2009 technology of the year award. The company was founded in 1980 as stratus computer, inc. Designed to prevent downtime, data loss, and business interruption, stratus avance high availability software delivers.
The company began offering stratus avance software in june 2008, a high availability product with virtualization built in. Stratus avance high availability software is the answer for businesses requiring the most reliable and affordable solution for keeping critical applications up. Stratus technologies we prevent applications from failure. Maynard, mamarketwire june 10, 2008 stratus technologies, inc. The faulttolerant server maker tweaked the product to run on intels new xeon e5 processors while at the same time boosting the scalability of. Its systems are sold under the ftserver, v series, and continuum brands.
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