MAYNARD, Mass., May 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stratus Technologies, a global leader in continuous availability solutions for mission-critical applications, today announced its fault tolerant server for industrial automation environments, ftServer, received the HMI and SCADA Technology Partner Product of the Year for 2017 award at AVEVA’s Global Partner Summit, which took place April 18-20, 2018 in Lake Forest, California. The award is a result of extensive lab testing that validates ftServer’s outstanding performance in minimizing unplanned downtime when used with AVEVA’s newest release of System Platform 2017.

According to AVEVA, the hardware performance test was designed to measure screen refresh latency and application performance measuring the ability for various industrial process control applications to run continuously without interruption, data loss or corruption during different component failures. Through these different failure scenarios, no application disconnects, data loss or corruption occurred. All testing was done at AVEVA’s Lake Forest, California facility and was run by AVEVA’s Quality Assurance (QA) department on a 100 I/O test bench.

Gary Tillery, Leader, Partner Group at AVEVA stated, “As the first hardware vendor to be recognized in this category, Stratus has proven it has developed a validated fault tolerant platform that is resilient and highly reliable, minimizing unplanned downtime in the most mission-critical environments and under the most demanding conditions – key attributes for the industrial automation sector. ftServer earned this award, and we’re happy to expand its use throughout our partner community.”

“In today’s always-on global economy where seconds matter, unplanned downtime in critical industrial business applications is unacceptable. It is the difference between business success and failure,” said Eric-Jan Schmidt, vice president of corporate and global marketing for Stratus. “This recognition is a testament to our commitment to deliver industry-leading application failure prevention for our partners in the industrial automation space. We look forward to expanding our strong, growing partnership with AVEVA and its global ecosystem of distributors, system integrators and OEMs to ensure continuous availability of our shared customers’ most critical industrial business systems.”

Stratus’ ftServer is an operationally simple platform that keeps applications up and running with no downtime or data loss. Leveraging the latest Intel processor technology and supporting Windows®, Linux® and virtualization technology (VMware, Hyper-V™ and KVM), ftServer’s always-on capabilities are achieved with advanced lockstep technology and real-time management and monitoring.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about Stratus ftServer and current use cases
• Read about “Preventing Failure with ftServer”
• Learn more about “Modernization to Prevent Unplanned Downtime Through Virtualization and Fault Tolerant Platforms”  

About Stratus Technologies

Stratus takes the complexity out of keeping business critical applications running 24/7. Stratus’ technologies proactively prevent instances of unplanned downtime both in the data center and at the edge, and our services ensure any issues are addressed before customers need to. Global Fortune 500 companies and small medium sized businesses in a wide range of industries across the globe have been relying on Stratus for operationally simple, continuous availability for more than 35 years. For more information, please visit www.stratus.com or follow on Twitter @StratusAlwaysOn.