Stratus and JJWild Join Forces to Provide Continuous Availability for MEDITECH's Health Care Information System Community
MAYNARD, Mass., May 22 // -- Stratus Technologies Inc. and JJWild, the leading provider of integrated technology solutions and consulting services for the MEDITECH community, are partnering to help hospitals using the MEDITECH Healthcare Information System deliver quality patient care and manage costs by preventing unplanned downtime and minimizing planned downtime.
The cost of downtime can be exorbitant to healthcare organizations, from both a financial and a quality of care perspective. Stratus' products, which are designed expressly for critical processes where continuous application availability is essential, are now available for MEDITECH customers through JJWild as part of its comprehensive solution portfolio. Over the past several months, JJWild has been executing an exhaustive product development and rollout plan, including testing of the supported Stratus servers in all of the MEDITECH-approved configurations.
Healthcare operational continuance strategies (disaster recovery, business continuance, and end-to-end system availability) are becoming increasingly critical as more hospitals and medical practices computerize their patient care and operations management systems. If virtually no amount of application downtime is acceptable because of patient care, financial or regulatory ramifications, or system interoperability requirements, then only the most fault-tolerant hardware will suffice. The combination of Stratus, JJWild, and MEDITECH effectively addresses patient care, uptime and cost concerns by providing the optimal solution for meeting the growing need for IT system uptime.
"We feel confident that the Stratus offering will revolutionize uptime strategies in MEDITECH facilities and we're pleased to be able to offer Stratus products as part of a total solution for the MEDITECH community," stated Sara Schaeffner, senior product manager for JJWild. "Stratus is a premier provider of industry-standard, fault-tolerant server technology that allows users to eliminate unplanned downtime caused by component failure 99.9997% of the time without burdening their staff and budgets with the operational complexity and high costs inherent in some other high availability approaches."
Stratus Technologies was first-to-market in 2001 with industry-standard fault-tolerant server technology for Windows, and has dedicated itself to becoming a premier supplier with a broad range of cost-effective systems that are easy to use and maintain.
JJWild is certifying the ftServer W series for both MEDITECH's Microsoft Windows-based Client/Server and MAGIC platforms. General release is expected in summer 2006. Stratus servers will be available to MEDITECH clients through JJWild's infrastructure solutions.
About JJWild
JJWild, founded in 1956 by John J. Wild, Sr., has enjoyed a relationship with MEDITECH for more than 20 years, becoming their preferred integration partner. JJWild employs both healthcare and IT professionals in order to offer the best possible solutions in infrastructure and application optimization to help healthcare organizations realize the full value of MEDITECH's software throughout its life cycle. To learn more about JJWild and MEDITECH, please visit http://jjwild.com/.
About Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies is a global solutions provider focused exclusively on helping its customers achieve and sustain the availability of information systems that support their critical business processes. Based upon its 25 years of expertise in server and services technology for continuous availability, Stratus is a trusted solutions provider to customers in manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, financial services, public safety, transportation & logistics, and other industries. For more information, visit http://www.stratus.com/.
Stratus is a registered trademark of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. The Stratus Technologies logo is a trademark of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Contacts:
Ed Marshall Ken Donoghue
Beaupre & Co. Public Relations Stratus Technologies
603-559-5816 978-461-7269
emarshall@beaupre.comken.donoghue@stratus.com
Source: Stratus Technologies
CONTACT: Ed Marshall of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, for Stratus Technologies, +1-603-559-5816, emarshall@beaupre.com; or Ken Donoghue of Stratus Technologies, +1-978-461-7269, ken.donoghue@stratus.com
Web site: http://www.stratus.com/
http://jjwild.com/
