Stratus Technologies Teams with Kabira(R) Technologies to Deliver High-Availability Payment...

Stratus ftServer 6200 Fault-Tolerant Server Now Fully Supported for Kabira's Products

LAS VEGAS -- Stratus Technologies, Inc. today announced that its Stratus[R] ftServer[R] 6200 system is now fully supported for all Kabira Financial Payment Switch[TM] products. Kabira's certification

of the ftServer system is part of a joint marketing agreement between the two companies and paves the way for the companies to jointly offer a high-availability, high-performance solution on a platform with exceptional uptime reliability for business-critical transaction processes at acquiring and issuing banks.

"From the customer point of view, the Stratus-Kabira collaboration promises to deliver an exceptionally robust, effective and reliable electronic payments processing solution," said Philip Izzo, Stratus director of financial services. "Both companies share a commitment to providing the highest possible levels of business process availability for business- and mission-critical applications. It is built into our corporate DNA."

"The industry's technology value leaders in high-availability, fault-tolerant hardware and high-performance, next-generation financial transaction processing software have come together to deliver leading-edge payments solutions for the global payments industry," said Chris Clabaugh, vice president of Business Development at Kabira Technologies. "We believe this collaboration provides a new level of dependability, availability and scalability."

Stratus high availability features

Introduced earlier this year, the Stratus ftServer 6200 system uses the most current multi-core Intel processor technology. The ftServer 6200 system is Stratus' most powerful server for transaction-intensive business operations and next-generation telecommunication services, as well as a high-performance database engine and virtualization platform.

Each Stratus server has two customer-replaceable units (CRU) that run in lockstep to simultaneously process the same data. Each CRU contains CPU and I/O in a 2U standard 19-inch rack, and is the equivalent of a simplex server. To the operating system and application, the two physical CRUs appear as a single logical server. Should one CRU experience an event that causes it to go out of service, the partner CRU, operating system and application continue to run unaffected, thereby eliminating unplanned downtime, failover and data loss. Stratus server uptime availability is field-proven to be better than 99.999 percent.