White Papers

The Availability Digest - Fault Tolerance for Virtualized Environments(PDF, 352K) Learn how the industries hottest technology, virtualization is driving the need for server availability and why virtualization makes hardware availability more important that ever before.

VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Servers - A Manufacturing Industry Guide to Maximizing Application Uptime and Minimizing Lifecycle Management Costs This paper details nine ways the combination of VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) virtualization and Stratus fault-tolerant ftServer systems work together to better address challenges that range from hardware and software failures, to ongoing maintenance and upgrades, to disaster recovery
and business continuity.

Fault Tolerance in a Virtual World - How common use cases raise your Criticality Quotient
As server virtualization goes mainstream, the workloads of virtual machines are taking on mission-critical proportions. This paper looks at five use cases to show why, where and how your business can reduce risk in your virtualization initiative by hardening your IT environment with physical servers that ensure reliability and availability.

Yankee Group report: "Server Virtualization Creates Opportunities for Fault-Tolerant Servers" Technology Analysis by George Hamilton, Enabling Technologies Enterprise, IT Infrastructure Management Director, Yankee Group.

Server Virtualization: Do's and Don'ts for Mission-Critical Manufacturing Systems (PDF, 346K) - This paper offers best practices you can use to benefit from server virtualization today, while avoiding mistakes that could affect the availability and performance of mission-critical manufacturing IT.

Best Practices for Server Virtualization in Mission-Critical Healthcare IT (PDF, 475K) -This paper provides an introduction to server virtualization for hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations. It also offers best practices you can use to benefit from virtualization, while avoiding missteps that could affect the availability and performance of mission-critical healthcare IT.

Seven Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management - The stakes are high when you virtualize business-critical IT services.  Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track.

Position Papers

VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Continuous Availability (PDF, 434K) -This paper details how VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges: Server hardware failures, operating system failures, server maintenance, operating system maintenance, disaster recovery, support and services.

Collateral

Download the Virtualization Buying Guide (PDF, 345K) -Ensuring business continuity and availability for data centers, distributed remote locations and SMBs. Look to Stratus for solutions that allow you to fully benefit from virtualization - without the risks of increased complexity, unplanned downtime and loss of business critical data.

Stratus and VMware Bring Continuous Availability to VMware Virtualization (PDF, 248K) -Learn how the combination of Stratus servers and VMware® Infrastructure 3 suite, addresses the full
spectrum of availability challenges including, hardware and software failures as well a planned downtime.

Podcasts & MultiMedia

A Different Perspective on Virtualization: See how virtualization is like putting all your eggs in one basket in this short video.

Flash Presentation: Virtualization meets Fault Tolerance - Raising the Hardware Bar

Stratus VMware Joint Pod Cast - Listen to howVMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges. (MP3 file can be slow to initially load; please be patient.)

Podcast Virtualization: What's Old is New Again - Today’s hottest technology has its roots in the mainframe era. Are there lessons to be learned from the past?

Podcast - Don't build virtualization on a house of cards - Hear why evaluating risk and determining downtime costs and consequences must factor into server platform choices.

Podcast: Virtualization and Fault Tolerance - Understand why If you are planning to use virtualization to implement business continuity or disaster recovery, ensuring you have the most reliable hardware is essential.

Webcasts

Web Cast - Stratus VMware Joint Web Cast - VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges.