Stratus Technologies announced today that it is partnering with Massachusetts-based Infinity Healthcare Solutions to resell Stratus hardware, software and service products for uptime reliability as part of its portfolio of offerings. Infinity Healthcare is an IT services provider specializing in systems integration, software development, and quality assurance for healthcare providers and vendors.

"The healthcare industry is under pressure from all sides to convert administrative and clinical services to electronic formats, while being armed with one of the lowest IT budget-to-revenue percentages of any industry," said

Charles Williams , president of Infinity Healthcare. "Outsourcing system and software integration projects to specialists like Infinity Healthcare are a cost-effective way of addressing many pressing IT issues. Part of the value we can bring, together with Stratus, is to help ensure IT infrastructures are resilient and resistant to outages, a growing concern as the industry transitions from paper to computer-based management practices."

Stratus products and services address end-user requirements for business-critical and mission-critical uptime support for Windows and Linux applications, as well as virtualization software:

 

• Continuous availability delivered by Stratus medical grade servers, field proven for delivering the uninterrupted 24/7 access to digital data and information to ensure quality of care, workflow efficiency, automated decision support, effective management and cost control.
• High availability delivered by Stratus Avance software, an easy-to-use, cost-effective product delivering 99.99 percent uptime (less than one hour of downtime per year on average) using commodity x86 servers.
• ActiveService architecture, a unique combination of capabilities that enable built-in serviceability, self-monitoring and diagnostics, and proactive remote support and troubleshooting by Stratus service engineers.

Stratus Technologies sells through select channel partners such as Infinity Healthcare, as well as through Dell Inc., Dell partners, and direct.