The growth of the Internet connects devices, with real-time data processing, is generating new demand for higher performance computing at the edge. At the same time, geographical distances, resource constraints, and competing OT/IT priorities, are causing companies to rethink traditional people, process, and technology choices at their decentralized, distributed locations.

Given this uncertainty, companies today are looking to modernize their edge computing infrastructure— upgrade to one that efficiently meets today’s edge computing needs and also helps prepare them for the advanced analytics at the edge computing of tomorrow.

Downtime in critical business applications can have far-reaching economic, security, and legal consequences. Recovering from a failure, no matter how fast, is simply no longer an option. What companies need today is failure prevention, not failure recovery.

Source: Stratus 

Customer Challenges:

It is perilous for production with no server backup as all the data will be lost easily when any scheduled or unscheduled downtime happens. It will take a longer time for the user to resume the production operation while time is equal to money when it is in production.

Unscheduled downtime is a critical challenge to a business where it might bring an impactful effect to the business. Unplanned downtime in production can cause a huge loss to a company including a loss in revenue, failure to meet customer demand, delayed delivery and etc.

Complex production lines will normally use several servers in order to ensure the operation effectively and data security. It is difficult for users to manage and it incurred of high maintenance costs.

XtructureD Solutions: Reliability, Configurability & Sustainability

Stratus Server is a fully integrated, continuously available hardware and software solution for running tier 1 business-critical workloads and manufacturing operations and control applications. Stratus Server consists of unique redundant field-programmable gate arrays, data paths, and patented lockstep firmware to provide the processor synchronization, data replication and logic need to ensure continuous availability, even in the event of a hardware failure.

In addition, Stratus Server’s automated self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, alerting and remediation capabilities enabled by its Active Service Architecture. It simplifies the monitoring and management steps and filtering issues that required action.

Stratus Server is a single system with fully duplexed hardware, is made up of two identical customer replaceable units (CRUs) – each with its own processors, memory, and storage. All redundant components are presented as a single system that requires only one OS or application.

Stratus Server is using a versatile industry-standard platform where it uses industry-standard x86 processors, memory, DIMMs, SSDs, and HDDs. It also uses standard shrink-wrapped operating systems and virtualization software. Also, it is designed for serviceability, with hot-swappable CRUs that can be removed without shutting down the system and replaced without using any tools.

Benefit

The system's self-monitoring and self-protecting features help to eliminate unplanned downtime and data loss and ensures all transactions are processed and applications are available. This helps companies to maximize revenue, production quality, and productivity.

With its redundant feature with easy component replacement design, no data corruption or data loss will happen as all transactions will be continuously available even failure of hardware happens.

With self-monitoring hardware, automated parts replacement, and customer replaceable subsystems, the Stratus system simplifies and shortens the time it takes to deploy, manage and maintain critical applications, which saving time and effort.

Stratus ftServer prevents the downtime of your critical business applications, ensuring continuous availability, even when your underlying hardware components fail.

ZtC™ Edge

ztC Edge is designed to provide remote application management, more rapid and efficient multi-site deployment, improved security, and high availability of critical business operations and applications.