Belden Inc. announces that the Stratus® ztC Endurance™ platform has won the inaugural Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award.
The award is named after Belden’s founder, Joseph C. Belden. His innovation and patents helped the company become an early leader in telecommunications, establishing the foundation for Belden’s current portfolio of networking and data solutions. The Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award highlights breakthrough innovations in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing and telecommunications.
The winning product, the Stratus ztC Endurance Platform, is a fault-tolerant computing platform that was designed for next-generation sustainable operations. This platform delivers 99.99999% uptime with intelligent, predictive fault tolerance to protect an organization’s most important applications from downtime or data loss. The Stratus ztC Endurance platform benefits from a unique and innovative design that has created a protected, manageable, easy to maintain and high-performance IT platform that predicts, isolates and addresses potential failures. To learn more about this innovative solution, visit the Stratus website.
Stratus received the award Tuesday at the first annual Joseph C. Belden Innovation Summit, which focused on innovation through presentations and panel discussions focused on the technology presented by the three finalists of this year’s prize.
Industry judges who evaluated the entries noted in particular that the ztC Endurance platform enabled any organization to easily run mission-critical applications and complex software stacks without downtime or data loss. One judge noted that the platform is user-friendly, providing the necessary data and functionality without requiring the user to have extensive server expertise.
The other two finalists were TECHMEDO, whose intelligent healthcare operating system aims to transform access to care for rural and underserved communities, and Voleatech GmbH, which presented its VT AIR firewall software Next-generation OT, bridging the gap between connectivity and security in the OT network space.
The three finalists were selected by a jury of industry experts from a highly competitive field of applications. These applications were evaluated based on criteria such as level of innovation, commercial value and ESG (environmental, social or governance) impact.
