I saw a demo of these systems back in the mid90's when I was working in the reinsurance industry. Was Impressive,fault tolerant stories of customers first kno

I saw a demo of these systems back in the mid90's when I was working in the reinsurance industry. Was Impressive,fault tolerant stories of customers first knowing something needed to be replaced was when a spare part turned up, which the customer would fit. All apart from the hard drives which needed an engineer due to health and safety aspect due to weight of them. Was full diagnostics with any issue modem dialed up to stratus to report the fault and get replacement part shipped out. Was as if they thought of everything until I asked the question about how they handled heat if the aircon failed. Turned out back then the early systems did not have any temperature monitoring, so somewhat stymied the flow of good stories. But impressive kit, not cheap but at the time was one of the best choices outside the AS/400/IBM route and indeed Lloyds did purchase a few of these systems. More so given they lasted this long in use and even today I've had best in breed systems have faults that were not iditeified as soon as possible, recall some fancy IBMkit having a dieing PSU and could smell the electrical burn faintly without any diagnosstics flagging up any problem for that server to fail in a few days time. But today we tend not to have one large all singing and dancing stable system and often cheaper to have redundancy thru load balancing and with that able to pull a server out of a work load cluster. This along with Assured messaging systems (MQ etc) you negate so many hardware faults that can and did in the past put a halt to work.