Payment solutions service provider NuPay has standardised on the Stratus Technologies' Stratus ftServer solution for its entire real-time product range to ensure near 100% availability.
According to Gerhard Mentz, IT manager at NuPay, clients in today's competitive business environment, where time equals money, want the company's services to be available 24/7, anytime and anywhere.
“Our previous technology architecture proved to be unreliable and, as we expanded our provision of payment solutions beyond the micro finance industry, we had to reassess our technology alternatives,” says Mentz.
“Our primary objective for the new architecture was to provide 99.9995% availability on the Windows operating system and we looked to identify a platform that would run in this environment,” he adds.
After lengthy discussions about the advantages of virtualisation and the ability to run many applications independently on a single server, Mentz says they decided to standardise on Stratus ftServer, “a solution that most financial providers rely on for continuous availability”.
Availability solutions architect at Stratus Technologies, Pieter van der Merwe, says the ftServer ensures uptime through its continuous processing features, including lockstep hardware, failsafe system software and ActiveService capabilities, all inside a single server.
“Stratus ftServer has been designed for enterprises, government agencies and financial service providers, such as NuPay, who are looking to achieve and sustain the highest levels of availability for their critical business process, communications, and computing needs,” Van der Merwe notes.
According to Mentz, the Stratus solution has aided the company in implementing virtualisation. “With Stratus ftServer, we now have sufficient capacity and fault tolerance capability to aggressively drive growth and reduce the need for additional systems.”
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