Stratus Technologies announced that it has joined the Citrix Ready program by demonstrating that its Avance high-availability software solution is fully compatible with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. This Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third-party products that have successfully met verification criteria established by Citrix in order to ensure joint solution compatibility.

Avance software, announced in June 2008, is Stratus' first software-based high availability product. Using embedded virtualization and running on ordinary x86 servers, Avance provides levels of availability to high-availability cluster solutions for Linux and Windows applications. Avance enables customers to create high-availability servers in minutes, and immediately benefit from the ability to create and manage virtual machines based on the Citrix XenServer virtualization platform. The XenServer virtualization technology is fully embedded in the Stratus Avance availability software.