Tandem Computers Inc is making its mark in Russia and reports that Sprint Networks, Sprint International’s Russian data communications joint venture with Moscow-based Central Telegraph, runs its electronic messaging services on a two-processor Tandem NonStop CLX system, which connects Russian electronic mail users to Sprint’s global messaging service via its worldwide SprintNet. Sprint has bought a Tandem NonStop system for an additional node in central Russia, which will use Sprint’s Russian X25 network to connect the region to the rest of the world, via the Moscow Tandem system. And Mosbusinessbank, headquartered in Moscow, has become the first Russian bank to go live on the new SWIFT II regional processor in Moscow, linking it into the worldwide banking system. It uses a Tandem NonStop CLX computer system and runs Chicago-based Internet Systems Corp’s Atlas software. Mosbusinessbank started operations in January 1991 as a multi-purpose commercial bank, with 15 branches in Moscow and 18 additional branches and agencies across Russia. The concept of fault-tolerant computing is new to Eastern Europe, but reliability for business-critical applications is just as big as an issue for a Russian bank as it is in the West. Tandem’s position as the world’s leading supplier of fault-tolerant transaction processing systems was a key factor in the bank’s decision, the company reckons.
