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

Stratus Technologies, Inc., an SGH company, announced new capabilities and features of the ztC Endurance platform, which delivers highly reliable connectivity to critical production data stored in SANs and expands visibility into industrial automation (IA) information across the enterprise.

New features include improved data connectivity for both enterprise and edge operations, including 32GB FC technology that meets 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 critical edge applications.

“With these enhancements, the Stratus ztC Endurance platform delivers a new level of compute platform availability and performance for customers across every industry,” said Dara Ambrose, VP, products and solutions, Stratus. “The enhancements announced today comprise a significant update to ztC Endurance’s value for data center and edge applications. The new features ensure ready access to production data stored in enterprise storage area networks with a compute platform that offers the highest levels of availability for critical enterprise applications and delivers greater visibility of industrial equipment for monitor and control purposes.”

ztC Endurance platform expands data availability across enterprise
Many organizations keep critical enterprise data on SANs, relying on the high level of availability and redundancy that SAN architecture provides to store, protect, and access their most important data. Stratus’ FC support on the ztC Endurance platform enhances 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 possible previously.

In addition, the ztC Endurance platform’s OPC-UA server connection for IA environments meet industry standards for interoperability and security for connectivity with digitized sensors, industrial equipment, and industrial software applications. OPC-UA’s ability to collect critical data on 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 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

ztC Endurance models and use cases
Stratus ztC Endurance is a family of predictive, fault-tolerant computing platforms that protect against downtime and data loss while delivering serviceable and reliable performance for next-gen sustainable operations with 99.99999% system availability.

ztC Endurance platform is available in 3 models to meet broad range of customer needs:

• 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 ztC Endurance platform enables digital transformation of computing infrastructure to modernize operations and deploy advanced software stacks that 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.