Penguin Solutions Launches Second-Gen Stratus ztC Endurance Fault Tolerant Computing Platforms

Penguin Solutions, Inc. announced the second-gen of its Stratus ztC Endurance platform, its fault tolerant computing platform with seven nines (99.99999%) availability ^(*).

This new Stratus ztC Endurance family of platforms enables IT teams to ensure the uptime of critical applications and data while consolidating workloads within a highly reliable, manageable, and serviceable IT footprint.

This second-gen introduces an ultra-high-performance model – the Stratus ztC Endurance 9110 – with a 46% performance improvement compared to the 7100, and a dense 64-core count to deliver highly reliable, high volume transaction processing within a single platform. The Stratus ztC Endurance 7110 model provides 18% improvement compared to the 7100. This generation also adds Linux (RHEL 9.4) support in addition to bare metal or virtualized versions of Windows Server and VMware vSphere.

This combination of high-end performance and Linux support is well suited for industries such as financial services, retail, and manufacturing. The Stratus ztC Endurance 9110 and 7110 platforms’ processing power also makes them well suited for AI inferencing workloads at the edge, delivering high throughput and low latency required by applications such as AI image classification.

“These industry-leading high availability and fault tolerant solutions drive greater levels of performance while providing more compute power and faster memory in a single platform, improving customers’ total cost of ownership for AI and other applications,” said Pete Manca, president, advanced computing, Penguin Solutions. “Stratus ztC Endurance platforms with their simple to manage, protected modular design, address the uptime challenges of critical applications in the data center and at the edge.”

“Intelligent, predictive fault tolerance and continuous availability is essential for companies looking to shift to digital-first in their business and operations,” said Jennifer Cooke, research director, edge trends and strategies, IDC. “Edge computing is the foundation for this next step, and Penguin Solutions is an experienced trusted provider and innovator. This second-generation Stratus ztC Endurance platform provides a resilient, high-performance solution for companies looking to power their ‘always-on’ operations.”

The release includes 4 models of the Stratus ztC Endurance platform – powered by Xeon processors Gen 5 – and offer an optional 100Gb Ethernet network card to support data- and storage-intensive applications.

• Stratus ztC Endurance Model 9110: This ultra-high performance model features 2 Xeon Gold 6548N processors with 32 cores/CPU, 64 cores per compute module, and 5,200Mb/s DDR5 memory.

• Stratus ztC Endurance Model 7110: This high-performance model features 2 5520 processors with 28 cores/CPU, and 56 cores per compute module with 4,800Mb/s DDR5 memory.

• Stratus ztC Endurance Model 5110: This mid-range model features 2 Xeon Silver 4510 processors with 12 cores/CPU, 24 cores per compute module, and 4,400Mb/s DDR5 memory.

• Stratus ztC Endurance Model 3110: This entry-level model comes with a single Xeon Silver 4510 with 12 cores/CPU, 12 cores per compute module, and the same 4,400Mb/s memory as the 5110.

^(*) Seven nines (99.99999%) availability of Stratus ztC Endurance computing platforms is based on specific requirements, including customers must use only parts authorized for Stratus ztC Endurance, maintain an active Penguin Solutions Support contract, and perform all recommended system updates.

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