ftServer 2600 ROBO Promo

Stratus ‘Uptime Assurance’ virtualization package for remote and branch offices Stratus Technologies, the industry leader for uptime assurance, is offering a specially priced ftServer 2600 fault tolerant server package for virtualization in remote and branch offices (ROBO). The entry-level ftServer 2600 brings the industry’s best availability to both VMware vSphere 4 and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization software with no SAN requirement. As with all ftServer models, the 2600 is completely redundant, designed to prevent downtime and data loss, and ideally suited for lights-out remote 24/7 operation and management. The combination of Stratus® ftServer® systems and virtualization provides an all-inone solution that enables you to consolidate and manage application workloads and reduce hardware and operating costs — all while maintaining greater than 5nines (99.999%) uptime.

Software availability products by design operate as a cluster. This type of availability introduces added costs, with additional hardware and multiple operating system and application licenses - redundant systems, redundant operating systems redundant applications. These solutions can also become difficult to implement and more complex to manage as they expand. In datacenters where this infrastructure and expertise is in place, there is less of a penalty for this implementation, but it does not scale-down well into environments where there may less infrastructure and technical expertise.

To address this need, Stratus has developed this offering designed specifically to address the requirements of remote and branch offices. It consists of a specially priced, single ftServer system in a configuration that is optimized for remote office virtualized workloads.

A virtualization-ready, quad-core ftServer platform.

This powerful combination features: Drop-in fault-tolerance for VMware environments in a single server configuration that is simple to deploy and manage.

SMP architecture that delivers up to 4 cores processing power for a single workload Automatic uptime that exceeds “five-nines” A well balanced configuration for moderate workloads Choice of Hyper-V or free VMware Essentials

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