Consortium on fault-tolerant Windows 200 platformsMaynard 18 September 2001 Six companies have combined resources to establish the Fault Tolerant Server Consortium (FTSC). Launched in Japan, the consortium expects to grow into a worldwide organization as more IT product manufacturers bring fault-tolerant products to market.
Charter companies and members of the FTSC include:
A fault-tolerant system architecture is designed to provide the most reliable computing possible for applications where uptime is either critical or highly desirable because of the business, financial, or safety consequences of system downtime. Historically considered a special-purpose computer for a unique class of mission-critical applications, fault-tolerant systems have been expensive, complex, and often based on proprietary technology. The new generation of servers has two principal differences: they are easy to deploy, operate and maintain; and, they use industry-standard technology, which drastically reduces both the initial cost and the total cost of ownership. Furthermore, fault-tolerant servers provide significantly better reliability and performance than high-availability clusters, which are built from two or more general-purpose servers, for essentially the same cost.
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