News

Getronics, Stratus Team to Deliver E-Banking Solutions

Getronics and Stratus Computer announced an agreement targeted at delivering continuously available third-generation e-banking solutions to the financial services industry.

Under the agreement, Getronics and Stratus will collaborate on future engagements that will benefit from using Stratus ftServer Windows 2000-based servers as the fault-tolerant hardware platform for Getronic’s Globalfs financial services solution. Globalfs provides financial institutions with a unified framework for a multi-channel, multi-application system capable of delivering banking services to customers at any time.

Globalfs utilizes an open architecture and is based on Microsoft’s n-tier architecture. Stratus’ ftServer system is the industry’s only fault-tolerant, multi-processor server supporting Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server operating systems. – Isaac Slepner

About the Author

Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.

Featured

  • Microsoft Dismantles RedVDS Cybercrime Marketplace Linked to $40M in Phishing Fraud

    In a coordinated action spanning the United States and the United Kingdom, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and international law enforcement collaborators have taken down RedVDS, a subscription based cybercrime platform tied to an estimated $40 million in fraud losses in the U.S. since March 2025.

  • Sound Wave Illustration

    CrowdStrike's Acquisition of SGNL Aims to Strengthen Identity Security

    CrowdStrike signs definitive agreement to purchase SGNL, an identity security specialist, in a deal valued at about $740 million.

  • Microsoft Acquires Osmos, Automating Data Engineering inside Fabric

    In a strategic move to reduce time-consuming manual data preparation, Microsoft has acquired Seattle-based startup Osmos, specializing in agentic AI for data engineering.

  • Linux Foundation Unites Major Tech Firms to Launch Agentic AI Foundation

    The Linux Foundation today announced the creation of a new collaborative initiative — the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — bringing together major AI and cloud players such as Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and other major tech companies.