Case Study: Sam Media Ltd achieves 24/7 high availability and lower costs with Stratus Technologies' Avance software

Mobile Entertainment Content Provider Gains High Availability With Stratus Avance Software

Sam Media Ltd., a mobile entertainment content provider with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, Hanoi and Jakarta and subscribers in 20 countries, needed continuous uptime for real‑time SMS processing, landing pages, subscription management and ad delivery. RAID-only disk mirroring left application-level availability exposed, and the small 10-person IT team wanted a cost‑effective, low‑training solution that avoided expensive SAN‑based clustering while enabling virtualization and separation of test and reporting workloads from production.

The company deployed Stratus Avance high‑availability software on industry‑standard x86 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and MySQL, with implementation support from IVT. Avance provides predictive monitoring, automatic failover and built‑in virtualization so production, test and reporting run in isolated VMs; it was installed and learned in half a day. The result: affordable, self‑healing uptime with 24/7 support, minimal administrative effort, protected revenue streams and improved partner confidence — giving operations staff peace of mind.

Sam Media Ltd

Robert Bos

Regional Operations Director