Stratus Technologies Named 2010 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Stratus Technologies announced that it has re-qualified as a Microsoft (News - Alert) Gold Certified Partner for the sixth consecutive year and will continue its long association with the world's leading operating system provider.

The Gold Certified Partners are the top level of Microsoft partners who have access to the tools and support; they need to assure their customers receive superior products and services.

For applications written for the Windows Server 2008, as well as other operating systems and virtualization software, the Stratus ftServer family of servers for continuous availability provides up to 99.9999 percent uptime.

'Leveraging 30 years experience in fault-tolerant computing, Stratus has collaborated with Microsoft to provide valuable insight and validate fault tolerant-aware functionality in the Windows Server operating system,' Bill Laing, corporate vice president, Windows Server and Tools Microsoft Corporation, said. 'This collaboration is designed to enable uninterrupted operation of Windows Server under the most extreme circumstances.'

Windows-based applications, with availability solutions for the SMB market to the enterprise data center are supported by the complete range of Stratus products. Stratus Avance software, in addition to the three highly configurable ftServer system models, delivers exceptional availability at low cost to general-purpose x86 servers and to prevent downtime and data loss, creates a high-availability computing platform.

'Our association with Microsoft is among our most prized corporate assets because of the exponential value it represents for our shared customers,' Roy Sanford, Stratus chief marketing officer, said. 'Critical Windows-based applications running on a Stratus ftServer platform and our Avance software are customers' best protection against the disruption and punishing cost of downtime.'

In related news, Picis has announced that it has extended its Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status with specialized competencies in business intelligence and data management solutions.