Certainly server virtualization offers an elegant way to minimize planned downtime during routine software and hardware maintenance, or scheduled upgrades. But that addresses only part of the availability story.
Virtualization Buying Guide
Ensuring business continuity and availability fordata centers, distributed remote locations and SMBs.Virtualization Buying Guide for Critical
Business Applications
In addition to the savings that come IDC estimates that, in 2007 alone,from server consolidation, the quest for server downtime cost organizationsimproved uptime is driving the interest around the globe about $140 billionin server virtualization. Industry experts in employee productivity and lostIDC predict the next phase of revenue.*virtualization adoption will focus onrelieving the costs and problems posedby system downtime. * IDC Press Release, May 5, 2008
Virtualizing to ensure availability demands a total solutions perspective.
Look to Stratus for Certainly server virtualization offers an elegant way to What's more, a formerly non-critical server can growsolutions that allow minimize planned downtime during routine software mission-critical very quickly as virtual machinesyou to fully benefit and hardware maintenance, or scheduled upgrades. proliferate.from virtualiztion - But that addresses only part of the availability story.without the risks of The question becomes how to capture all the benefitsincreased complexity, The underlying server hardware and virtualization of server virtualization for your essential businessunplanned downtime software layer typically have the potential to become a applications ?including availability ?withoutand loss of business- single point of failure for every virtual machine (VM) getting wrapped up in unwanted complexity andcritical data they support. Your exposure to downtime and data loss unintended side effects. And how can small andmultiplies with the number of virtual machines medium businesses (SMBs) and distributed remoterunning on a host server. Losing access to critical environments with little or no IT support takeapplication services and data, even briefly, can have advantage of this technology? Quickly it becomesexpensive consequences, require complex obvious that what works for a well-resourced datareconciliation measures or create compliance issues. center doesn't fit as easily at distributed remote sites.
Data centers, SMBs or distributed sites - no one delivers availability like Stratus.
While some solutions help you recover from down- operational simplicity and financial advantage areŽtime, Stratus virtualization solutions are designed yours automatically with any Stratus virtualizationto prevent downtime and data loss from happening in platform or service you select:the first place. From concept, to production, to Ždeployment, we design and build failure prevention Fault-tolerant Stratus ftServer systemsŽinto our hardware, software and services solutions. running VMware Infrastructure 3. >99.999% uptime for data centers, disasterAutomated 24/7 monitoring, error detection, problem recovery sites and mission-critical environmentsisolation and fault-management features produce the TStratus Avance high-availability andhighest levels of availability for the server hardware virtualization software for standard x86 serversand virtualization layer. . >99.99% uptime for SMBs and distributedremote locationsTSurvey your options for getting the most out of CALM (Continuous Availability LifecycleManagement) virtualization servicesvirtualization and availability for your vital . Ensure mission- and business-critical SLAs,applications in this buying guide. Total availability, reduce costs and simplify ongoing support 2Learn how virtualization and availability make
perfect partners in the enterprise data center.
Because server virtualization changes long-standing failures by handling both permanent and transientpractices in IT, businesses are discovering they need errors transparently ?never passing these errors toto take a thorough look at exactly what to expect to operating systems or applications.make sure their data center virtualization effortsdeliver as planned. Benefiting from this Stratus Continuous Availabilitytechnology is as simple as loading your software on anPairing VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) ?the world's ftServer system. Take advantage of drop-in faultmost widely deployed virtualization software suite ?tolerance while managing your virtualized environ-Get proven with Stratus ftServer systems delivers 99.999% or ment with the familiar VI3 tools you already use. And>99.999% better uptime for both the server ... [download for more]
