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Stratus Claims Fault Tolerance for Under $10K
How do you get five “9”s of server reliability by spending only four “9”s in acquisition costs? That’s the hook that Maynard, Mass.-based Stratus is tossing out with its new entry level ftServer W Series 2400 line of fault-tolerant Windows servers, which it introduced this week.
The new line of servers, available immediately, uses the same fault-tolerance technology as the company’s new ftServer W Series 5700 line, announced in January, the company said in a statement.
Under Stratus’ design each system consists of a pair of single-processor servers tied together in a fault-tolerant, “lockstep” configuration. The two are locked together so that they are both performing the same operations simultaneously. This, Stratus claims, provides the elusive 99.999 percent uptime for only $9,999 (starting price).
The 2400 comes with two single-core 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon processors, running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, and can support up to 4 GB of memory as well as a variety of internal and external storage options, according to the company.
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