Stratus Touts uptime achievement
ENT News | at | by Mike
Stratus Technologies, maker of fault-tolerant Windows 2000 servers, is claiming its internal monitoring of more than 1,200 live customer units approached six nines of availability over the last six months. If true, the mark would signal an impressive level of scalability for the systems, which are based on industry-standard server components and Windows.
The 99.9998 percent uptime that Stratus says its systems achieved over the last six months translates to less than a minute of unplanned downtime for a server running 24x7 for one year. By comparison, reliable estimates for the uptime of Windows-based clusters are in the 99.9 percent uptime range -- about 8.5 hours of unplanned downtime over a year of non-stop operation.