Products and Customers
Its legacy product line was originally based on Motorola MC68000 processors, but then migrated to Intel i860 processors and finally Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC architecture. The current V-Series server line runs the VOS operating system, which originally had many features inspired by or derived from Multics. Applications written for VOS continue to be deployed on the current generation Stratus servers called ftServer V-Series, an Intel processor-based ftServer line first introduced in June 2002 for Microsoft Windows 2000 and higher. Other operating systems supported on the legacy platforms (XAR, Jetta / Continuum) -- HP-UX and a home-grown UNIX product called FTX (Fault-Tolerant UNIX)-- are supported but no longer actively sold. The Stratus ftServer line sold today supports Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company sells models of ftServer designated as entry-level, mid-range and enterpise-class fault tolerant servers. The mid-range and enterprise ftServer systems also run VMware vSphere virtualization software.
The company began offering Stratus Avance software in June 2008, a high availability product with virtualization built in. Avance runs on two general-purpose x86 servers and allows deployment of applications across high-availability virtual machines, freeing up existing x86 servers. The two servers comprising the Avance high-availability platform may be separated by up to three miles for purposes of disaster recovery and business continuity. Avance is intended to serve small-to-medium size businesses' need for affordable and simple high availability and virtualization.
Stratus has a large presence in Maynard, Massachusetts, its U.S. headquarters, and in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as several worldwide offices, in locations such as the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
The company has a vast customer base, but popular types of its customers include banks and credit unions, emergency response centers (such as 911 in the USA), police departments, fire departments, hospitals, clinics, governments, credit card companies, stock exchanges, telcos/phone companies and Internet providers.
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