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Virtualization
How do you cope with web traffic that’s 100x the year-round traffic?
Like all Grand Slam sites, USOpen.org must meet the expectations of millions of fans that flood the site at tournament time – but without the year-round expense of a vast infrastructure. To complement the existing systems, IBM has designed and implemented a virtualization solution over geographically dispersed sites. By virtualizing them as one during the tournament, they easily handle the huge peaks in traffic.
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Energy Efficiency
How do you use less energy, without compromising the experience?
Since 2006, IBM virtualization technology has helped the US Open consolidate their 60 servers to just 6 System p6 550 servers. This has reduced energy consumption by 23% and cooling load by 25%. It has also helped the four Grand Slams achieve considerable improvements in energy efficiency. While visits have increased by 26%, the cost of each visit for all Grand Slams has been reduced by 38% over the same period.
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IBM Servers
These servers are located in three separate IBM hosting locations. They are configured with Linux LPARs for Web serving using IBM HTTP Server (US Open.org) and AIX LPARs for WebSphere Application Server (Commenting, Feedback and Player Search), WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, Cache logging and content distribution servers.
With IBM System p6 systems, organizations like US Open can:
- Simplify – enable server consolidation and so streamline infrastructure management
- Optimize – improve business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically reallocating resources to logical partition (LPARs) as dictated by business goals, without administrative intervention
- Gain flexibility – support the use of different operating systems (OS) and application workloads on LPARs within the same physical server
- Lower costs – reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by significantly improving server utilization and reducing system management costs.
Green Enterprise
How do you become greener, while still improving delivery and performance?
IBM technology and expertize are already helping high-profile clients in many sectors plan for and achieve a greener enterprise. Recent clients include Defra and Newport Council.
To learn more, read about becoming greener.
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