Case Study: Sports News and Media Network achieves always-on Windows application availability with Stratus Technologies' everRun software

Stratus Ensures Always-On Availability For Windows Applications

A leading global sports news and media network whose writers, producers and field staff depend on Windows apps for breaking news, scheduling and live on-air interaction needed absolute protection against downtime. Their infrastructure spans two fully redundant data centers and they required continuous availability without manual failover, protection of in‑transit data, and the ability to perform hardware maintenance and most software patches without interrupting users or introducing single points of failure.

The company deployed Stratus everRun software (with Stratus Endurance hardware and industry‑standard HP/Compaq servers) to present two unmodified servers as a single, fully redundant system. After rigorous lab testing that simulated memory, disk, network and power failures, the solution kept applications running through component failures and patching with no data loss, no rollback and automatic component recovery—meeting and exceeding the organization’s uptime requirements.