New partner announced!

Stratus Technologies is now an ISA Promotional Partner it has been announced. 

Eric-Jan Schmidt - Stratus

Stratus, based in Maynard, (MA USA), has been providing technology platforms that keep business critical applications running 24/7 for more than 35 years. The company’s hardware and software solutions proactively prevent unplanned downtime and maintain data integrity, both in the data center and at the edge.

The company develops industrial automation solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), life sciences, manufacturing, the power industries, and the oil and gas, water-wastewater, and food and beverage sectors. 

Under the partnership agreement, Stratus will work with ISA to co-develop a range of informational and promotional resources, including: ad inserts within ISA’s bi-monthly InTech magazine; and a diverse range of online and e-newsletter ads, video alerts, and ebook sponsorships delivered on and through Automation.com, ISA’s online publisher of automation-related content.

“We are excited to be partnering with ISA to further educate the industrial automation and control systems industry on the value that Stratus products can bring to their environments,” said Eric-Jan Schmidt, vice president of marketing for Stratus.  “From process to discrete manufacturing, Stratus provides the solutions to modernize and reduce the complexity of industrial control systems. With ISA’s commitment to the industrial automation and control industry, this partnership will help bring our message to this critical market.”

“The partnership brings together two organizations committed to the viability and protection of industrial automation and control systems,” says Jennifer Infantino Halsey, ISA’s Director of Marketing & Communications. “ISA’s worldwide leadership in industrial automation and control systems cybersecurity and training is underscored by the global acceptance of the ISA/IEC 62443 series of security standards. Stratus hardware and software technologies are designed to improve the operating reliability, efficiency and management of these systems.

“Given the vital role industrial automation and control systems play in critical infrastructure and modern manufacturing,” Halsey continues, “we expect our members, customers, and other stakeholders will benefit from learning about solutions like these.”

The ISA Corporate Partnerships Program offers companies a customized, tailored approach to sponsorship within the organization. Partnership packages include year-round promotion, prominent association-wide access and recognition, and turnkey service from a dedicated team of professionals.

Companies can bundle ISA products and services with marketing opportunities, providing a more streamlined approach to corporate sponsorship.

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First software defined availability platform!

SolutionsPT, in conjunction with partner Stratus Technologies Inc, has announced the launch of everRun® Enterprise, a next-generation software solution which represents a breakthrough in virtualisation technology.

Available from February 28th 2014, the comprehensive solution, which represents the latest addition to the Stratus portfolio, combines the best of Stratus’ high-availability software solutions with enhanced features such as disaster recovery and application monitoring to ensure business continuity.

Robert Dinsmore, High Availability Product Manager at SolutionsPT, said: “The new release combines Marathon’s EverRun and Stratus’s own Avance technology – meaning you get 99.999% availability from a software platform that can be used with commodity x86 servers. This brings true fault tolerance to a much greater user base since it allows businesses to stay in line with their current IT hardware policy, whilst delivering a higher level of availability than most cluster based alternatives. It does all of this in a simplified package that does not require additional shared storage.”

“This launch signals a change in strategy for Stratus,” said Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer at Stratus Technologies. “We are broadening our focus on fault tolerance – which ensures the highest levels of availability – beyond hardware, to virtual workloads on commodity servers. In effect, we are bringing mainframe-like levels of availability to Intel-based servers.”

everRun Enterprise unifies the ease of use, monitoring, management and service capabilities of the Avance® high-availability software with the fault-tolerant engine of previous generations of everRun. Additionally, the entire solution now leverages the open source Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. The result of this new architecture is a higher performance software platform that supports a wider range of operating system guest workloads.

“This is significant since some customers have resisted migrating business-critical applications to virtualised architectures due to a lack of reliable, enterprise-grade availability in today’s hypervisors,” said Jason Andersen, Senior Director of Product Management at Stratus Technologies. “We also see a very similar requirement in private clouds. This technology will be the basis of our cloud strategy as well.”

everRun Enterprise is designed to keep Windows® and Linux™ applications up and running continuously without changes to applications or in-flight data loss. It is compatible with a wide range of platforms, is easy to implement and includes centralised management tools for an all-encompassing view of the entire stack – from bare metal to the applications. The software runs on industry-standard Intel-based x86 servers without the need for specialised IT skills. Unlike other availability solutions, everRun Enterprise prevents downtime from occurring rather than merely recovering from it – a difference that can have a significant impact on revenues, costs and customer satisfaction.

Availability Virtualised in Automation

HardwarePT has joined forces with Stratus Technologies in this years Availability Virtualised in Automation road show 2013. They provide fault-tolerant hardware platforms, and virtualisation technologies to deliver assured uptime for virtualised plant IT environments.

It is scheduled to visit venues throughout Britain and in Ireland including some iconic sports locations including Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United and Croke Park the home of Gaelic Games. The tour will be held in the second part of April 2013.

The historic headquarters of Gaelic Games: Croke Park