Stratus Technologies, a vendor focused on providing continuous availability solutions, increased in foothold in Asia Pacific (AP) with the setting up of its very first Asian Managed Services Center in Singapore last week.
This is Stratus’ third Managed Services Center; it has two other similar facilities situated in Phoenix, US and London, UK.
The center in Singapore, which works parallel with the other two facilities, was set up with the primary goal of providing continuous, round the clock services to Stratus’ global clients who are predominantly in the Financial, Telecom and Manufacturing sectors.
The services provided include fault tolerant services, maintenance services and professional and managed services.
Currently, the Singapore center has 13 employees tasked to solely serve one financial institution which Stratus was unable to name.
“Singapore is a country known for its geographically central location and its excellent infrastructure,” said Dave Laurello, president and chief executive officer, Stratus Technologies Inc.
“Status’s decision to set up its first Managed Services Centre definitely fortifies Singapore as an attractive epicenter for international business exchange and global talents.”
Based in Boston, US, Stratus competes in the continuous availability solutions space with big players like IBM and HP.
In an interview with SDA Asia, Laurello said the key differentiator between Stratus and its competitors lies in the company’s automatic and transparent approach to availability and in its solutions’ capability to deliver five nines (99.999%) of greater uptime, also known as continuous availability.
According to a study done by Gartner, the average cost of computer network downtime is 42,000 dollars an hour. On average, companies experience nearly 140 hours of downtime every year, with more than 56% of that total attributable to pure outages.
Stratus considers Asia to be a growing market. Currently 25% of its business comes from AP and another 25% comes out of Japan. It has a total of 115 customers in the region.
With a regional headquarters in Hong Kong, Stratus currently operates out of Singapore, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Moving forward, Stratus revealed to SDA Asia that it plans to grow by employing the leverage model and via organic growth.
“This move also underlines how serious we are about doing business in Asia Pacific. We are optimistic about the year ahead and are targeting an increase in clients by the end of 2008...,” said Freeman Nung, vice president of Stratus Technologies Asia Pacific.
Stratus declined to mention the amount that was invested in the new centre. |
