IN FOCUS Stratus Technologies
Stratus fault tolerant servers support end customers who need their applications to be continuously available, according to Maged Shaker, Partner Manager, Middle East
99.999% availability Fault tolerant servers from Stratus have redundant components and can ensure annual downtime is less than six minutes Stratus Technologies opened its regional office in Dubai, UAE in the month of July 2011. Exclusively focussed on the high end mission critical enterprise infrastructure for the last thirty years, the vendor is known for its fault tolerant server systems. Over the last few years the vendor has seen its regional sales surging ahead and in order to support its partners better it decided to set up an office in Dubai. For Stratus the partner is the first point of contact for any customer in the region. The selection of a partner is based on whether they are able to deliver the same level of support assurance to the end-customer that Stratus gives to its partners. Says Maged Shaker,
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Partner Manager, Stratus Technologies, “We select our partners based on how they will be able to support their customers achieving the same level of responsibility we put on ourselves for our customers.” Stratus’ products are all about supporting continuous availability of applications for its customers. For mission critical operations that cannot afford to be non-responsive or unavailable for any period of time, where business loss is estimated in millions of Dollars for even a short period of minutes, the Stratus 2600, 4500, 6310 server portfolio is usually the appropriate solution. In more technical language, the Stratus server portfolio fits in where a customer
Stratus partners • TEA Computers SA, Egypt • Bader Al Mulla and Bros, Kuwait • SOL Group, Kuwait • Mideast Data Systems, Lebanon • International Technology Services Limited, Libya • Total Technical Triangle, Saudi Arabia • CertSoft, UAE • Emirates Business Machines, UAE • International Technology Services Limited, UAE