Stratus ztC Endurance Fault-Tolerant Platform Extends Connectivity to Enterprise Data Center

Stratus Technologies, an SGH company, announced new capabilities and features for its Stratus ztC Endurance platform, which provides high-availability connectivity to production data stored in storage area networks (SANs) and expands visibility into industrial automation (IA) information across the enterprise. New features include enhanced data connectivity for both enterprise and edge operations, including 32 GB Fibre Channel technology that meets high availability requirements. Users can access enterprise data stored in SANs in the enterprise data center and with OPC-UA support, which provides a single-pane-of-glass view into IA data and other edge applications.

Stratus’ ztC Endurance Platform Expands Data Availability Across the Enterprise

Stratus’ Fibre Channel support on the ztC Endurance platform helps to enhance an enterprises’ ability to run mission-critical applications and capture and access production data with the same or greater reliability. With the release of this improved platform, organizations can achieve seven nines fault tolerance with a level of data integrity and enterprise-wide data availability that was not able to be achieved previously.

In addition, the Stratus ztC Endurance platform’s OPC-UA server connection for IA environments is designed to meet industry standards for interoperability and security for connectivity with digitized sensors, industrial equipment, and industrial software applications. OPC-UA’s ability to collect data for the monitoring and control of manufacturing and other IA processes makes possible a single-pane view by allowing organizations to integrate data into existing dashboards and provides additional security to help better protect IA equipment.

Additional features include:

• Streamlined licensing, improved system management, and greater visibility of system resources

• Support for VMware vSphere 8.0 update 2

Stratus ztC Endurance Models and Use Cases

Stratus ztC Endurance is a family of fault-tolerant computing platforms that help to protect against downtime and data loss while delivering serviceable and reliable performance for next-generation sustainable operations with 99.99999% system availability. The ztC Endurance platform is available in three models to address a broad range of customer requirements:

• ztC Endurance Model 7100 for large data centers and larger plants

• ztC Endurance Model 5100 for remote offices and medium-sized plants

• ztC Endurance Model 3100 for shop floor locations and smaller plants

The Stratus ztC Endurance platform helps to enable the digital transformation of computing infrastructure to further modernize operations and deploy more advanced software stacks that help to ensure application availability and data integrity at the edge and in the data center.

Note: Achieving seven nines (99.99999%) availability requires that customers only use parts authorized for the Stratus ztC Endurance platform, that they maintain an active Stratus Support contract, and that they perform recommended system updates.