Case Study: Gas Distributing Company achieves zero outages and always-on system-wide monitoring with Stratus Technologies ftServer

Avoid costly impacts with always-on system wide monitoring

A large East Coast gas distributor serving over one million customers faced serious operational risk after high-profile pipeline failures highlighted the consequences of system outages. With multiple gate stations, 600 pressure monitoring points and a costly manual response process, repeated server failures (first Dell, then HP, failing six times) left the company exposed and prompted the automation supervisor to demand a continuous-availability solution.

The company migrated its SCADA and Historian applications to Stratus ftServer always-on platforms, added analytics, virtualized the environment with VMware, consolidated gate stations and CAD operations, and implemented a disaster-recovery site. Since deployment they’ve had no outages or data loss, gained system-wide visibility to prevent incidents, and realized significant time and cost savings.