Case Study: Nakano Sunplaza achieves continuous, always-on virtualized business applications with Stratus Technologies ftServer

Busy cultural complex in uptown Tokyo relies on the Stratus ftServer platform for continuous availability of its virtualized business applications

Nakano Sunplaza is a large, popular cultural complex in uptown Tokyo that houses a concert hall, hotel, restaurants and event facilities. Its back-office and customer-facing applications had been running on many separate physical servers, a setup that was complex and costly to maintain; with only one person managing operations, the team wanted to consolidate via virtualization but avoid the expense and operational complexity of clustered storage while ensuring continuous availability.

They chose the Stratus ftServer platform, which uses fully replicated, lockstep hardware to eliminate single points of failure and present a single, easy-to-manage system view. The physical-to-virtual migration was fast and non-disruptive, automated monitoring handles failed components before they impact operations, and Nakano Sunplaza now runs fault-tolerant virtualized applications with reduced maintenance effort and true 24/7 availability.

Nakano Sunplaza

Masashi Miyauchi

General Affairs Division, Administrative Head Office