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News Release from: Performance Technologies | Subject: IPnexus family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2003
Packet-based architecture boosts
availability
Stratus Technologies is using several IPnexus products from Performance Technologies in its Intel-processor-based fault-tolerant server platforms.
Stratus Technologies is using several IPnexus products from Performance Technologies in its Intel-processor-based fault-tolerant server platforms This opportunity is representative of Performance Technologies' ability to integrate its IPnexus hardware and software products into development platforms based on the PICMG 2.16 architecture
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Stratus server solutions provide continuous uptime and protection of key data for applications such as banking, securities and exchanges, and retail transactions.
Stratus is using Performance Technologies' packet-based IPnexus products and architecture to facilitate the transmission and communication of transaction data for these business-critical applications.
"Stratus servers eliminate the complexities associated with cluster deployments, while also delivering significantly better uptime performance", said Jon Malinsky, Business Line Manager, Continuum products, Stratus Technologies.
"Performance Technologies helped Stratus by offering a highly reliable product family designed around a robust packet-switched form factor.
As a result, we are able to offer the most simple, ultrareliable server solutions in the industry".
"Stratus' reputation is based on delivering high availability transaction servers", said Ed Bizari, Director of Marketing for Performance Technologies.
"Our IPnexus products are based on open-architecture standards.
For Stratus, that meant reduced design complexity and time-to-market and an increase in overall system reliability and performance.
As a leading developer of such standards-based products, we look forward to a continuing relationship with Stratus Technologies".
Stratus is using products from Performance Technologies' PICMG 2.16-compatible IPnexus product family.
These products include the ZT 5088e chassis and CPC4406 switch, making an extremely flexible foundation for highly reliable systems, along with the CPC388 and CPC358 communications networking products and the company's Linux-based NexusWare software environment.
This combination created a feature-rich integrated development platform on which Stratus was able to build its IA32 applications.
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