Case Study: MAN IT Services achieves always-on vehicle production with Stratus Technologies

Stratus Enables Always-On Vehicle Production

MAN Nutzfahrzeuge, a leading European truck and bus manufacturer with about 34,000 employees and €8.7 billion in annual revenue, relies on a centralized IT environment to run its commercial vehicles unit. Because hundreds of locations and a network of ~220 Microsoft Terminal Server/Citrix farms depend on the Munich head office, any unscheduled server downtime risked halting production, blocking access to critical applications and data, and disrupting services across 240 sites.

MAN IT Services implemented Stratus everRun FT, everRun HA and SplitSite to create a fault-tolerant environment where two Windows servers run in 100% lock-step and are geographically separated. The solution delivers continuous availability with zero interruption on single-server failures, eliminated unscheduled outages for mission-critical apps, and protected the organization’s ~1,800 servers and ~30,000 connected clients—giving MAN confidence to expand everRun for future protection needs.