Stratus Technologies is a Maynard, Massachusetts based producer of fault tolerant computers. Maynard is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. In Engineering, Fault-tolerant design, also known as fail-safe design, is a design that enables a system to continue operation possibly at a reduced level (also known Stratus Technologies is now (since 1999) what used to be called Stratus Computer founded in 1980. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Stratus Computer was a Marlborough, Massachusetts based producer of fault tolerant mini computers. Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. In Engineering, Fault-tolerant design, also known as fail-safe design, is a design that enables a system to continue operation possibly at a reduced level (also known A minicomputer (colloquially mini) is a class of multi-user Computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum in between the largest Multi-user It competed with Tandem Computers and to a lesser extent Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX minis. Tandem Computers was an early manufacturer of Fault-tolerant computer systems, marketed to the growing number of Transaction processing customers who used them for Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the Computer industry Name "VAX" was originally an Acronym for V irtual A ddress e' X' tension, both because the VAX was seen as a 32-bit From 1985 to 1993 its computers were resold by IBM under the IBM System/88 brand. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology
Its traditional markets were financial services companies like banks and security exchanges. Starting in the 1990s, the company moved into the telecommunications industry, particularly in the area of network management and custom services, with the result that its telecommunications revenues surpassed those from enterprise computing. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 This led to a buy-out from Ascend Communications (later acquired by Lucent Technologies). Ascend Communications was an Alameda California based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999 Lucent Technologies was a technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs.
The enterprise server portion of the business was of no interest to Ascend. That portion was spun off in a leveraged management buyout in 1999, with funding from international investment firm, Investcorp. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Now privately held, the Stratus Technologies of today is owned primarily by Investcorp, Intel Capital, DB Capital, and NEC. is a Japanese multinational IT company headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan.
Its product line was originally based on Motorola MC68000 processors, but then migrated to Intel i860 processors and finally Hewlett-Packards' PA-RISC architecture. Motorola Inc ( is an American, multinational Fortune 100, Telecommunications company based in Schaumburg Illinois. The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC Microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor The Intel i860 (also 80860) was a RISC Microprocessor from Intel, first released in 1989. PA-RISC is a Microprocessor architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard 's Systems & VLSI Technology Operation. More recent systems are based on Intel processors and Microsoft Windows 2003 and Linux. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Windows Server 2003 (also referred to as Win2K3 is a server Operating system produced by Microsoft. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks The original VOS operating system had many features copied from Multics and continues to be deployed on the current generation Stratus servers. VOS is a proprietary Operating system running on Stratus Technologies computer systems Multics ( Mult iplexed I nformation and C omputing S ervice was an extremely influential early Time-sharing Operating system Stratus has a home-grown UNIX product, based on the original UNIX, called FTX (Fault-Tolerant UNIX) and still supports it although it is not sold on new servers any longer. The company sells the VOS operating system running on V-series ftServers. Since August 2006, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is shipped and supported on T-series ftServers, while Windows Server 2003 ships and is supported on W-series ftServers. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market including mainframes. In 2006 Stratus purchased Emergent Network Solutions of Allen, TX. The ENTICE solution set from Emergent serves as the foundation for the Stratus Telecom solutions.
Stratus has a large presence in Phoenix, Arizona, Maynard, Massachusetts and Allen, Texas, in the USA and several worldwide offices, in locations such as the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Japan. Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Singapore Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
The company has a vast customer base, but popular types of its customers include banks, emergency response centers (such as 911 in the USA), police departments, fire departments, hospitals, governments, credit card companies, stock exchanges, telcos/phone companies, Internet providers, and much more. This is by no means a complete list, but several types of Stratus customers fit into these categories.
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