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Stratus Technologies awards InterSwitch "EMEA Partner of the Year" award

The prestigious award was presented at the Techno Interactive gala awards ceremony, in Calabar, Nigeria.

Johannesburg, 04 Nov 2009

InterSwitch Nigeria has been named Stratus Technologies' EMEA “Partner of the Year”.

The award, presented by Dick Sharod, African regional director at Stratus Technologies, was handed over to Mitchell Elegbe, CEO, and Charles Ifedi, Chief Strategist from InterSwitch, at the InterSwitch Techno Interactive awards ceremony, an event that acknowledges best practices across numerous categories within the Nigerian banking sector.

"What made InterSwitch stand out across the region were the values they embodied as a partner. Doing business with InterSwitch is also very predictable, which is quite refreshing. They make annual and quarterly commitments, and either stick to them or exceed them. In FY09 InterSwitch grew their Stratus revenue by 220%, due in no small part to the adoption of VMware on Stratus ftServer proposition,” says Sharod.

“InterSwitch has always been the first of our partners to take new Stratus products in-house for evaluation,” Sharod continues. “InterSwitch is well known for the investment they make in their staff, which includes training on new products and industry certification. This sort of investment then allows InterSwitch the ability to recommend a tried and tested availability solution to their customers in the West Africa region.”

"Seven years back, we took a big bet on Stratus as a technology and organisation to be the platform for our partner banks,” says Elegbe. “Today, I'm happy to report that we've had no outages on our Stratus servers, an experience shared by our partner banks."

Elegbe went on to dedicate the award to his team and all the hard work they put in, and thanked InterSwitch's partner banks for all their continued support.

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InterSwitch

InterSwitch is an electronic transaction switching and payment processing company with a business footprint that covers the provision of shared, integrated message broker solutions for financial transactions, e-commerce, telecoms, value-added services and e-billing in the Nigerian environment.

The company is an independent, private sector led, limited liability company focused on facilitating the exchange of value between service providers (financial, telecommunications and utilities), merchants, their customers, and other stakeholders on a timely and continuous basis nationwide.

Through its “Super Switch” infrastructure, InterSwitch provides an online, real-time electronic payment system to support automated customer transactions from different customer touch points and transaction channels.

Stratus Technologies

Stratus Technologies focuses exclusively on helping its customers keep critical business operations online without interruption. Business continuity requires resiliency and superior availability throughout the IT infrastructure, including virtual environments. Stratus delivers a range of solutions that includes software-based high availability, fault-tolerant servers, availability consulting and assessment, and remote systems management services. Based on its 29 years of expertise in product and services technology for total availability, Stratus is a trusted solutions provider to customers in manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, public safety, transportation and logistics, and other industries. For more information, visit http://www.stratus.com.

(c) 2009 Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All rights reserved.

Stratus, The Availability Company, and ftServer are registered trademarks of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. The Stratus Technologies logo and Avance are trademarks of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Editorial contacts

Monica Braganca
Emerging Media Communications
(+27) 11 792 4706
monica@emergingmedia.co.za
Dick Sharod
Stratus Technologies
(+27) 11 267 5855
dick.sharod@stratus.com