Case Study: European Food Retailing Company achieves real-time payment continuity with Stratus Technologies' VOS Disaster Recovery Mirroring System

Ensuring business continuity of mission-critical systems with Disaster Recovery Mirroring System from Stratus and ARI

Stratus helps organizations protect mission-critical Stratus VOS applications where traditional snapshot backups aren’t enough for real-time, transaction-based operations. Banks and a large European retailer needed continuous, remote protection of ATM, payment and system configuration data so they could avoid data loss, meet regulatory and operational requirements, and restore production quickly after a disaster.

They deployed the VOS Disaster Recovery Mirroring System (DRMS), a 24x7, transparent, real-time bi-directional mirroring solution that intercepts I/O and replicates critical files over TCP/IP or X.25 with automated error handling and admin monitoring. Results included zero-delay mirroring of ATM transactions across hundreds of miles, automatic replication of configuration and newly created critical files, and a full DR copy for the retailer that can take over production — all with negligible impact on performance (peak overhead ≤5%), making DRMS a core part of each organization’s continuity plan.