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Set on winning
Federation Francaise de Tennis and IBM partner for Linux
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| Strong. Aggressive. Flexible. Those who compete in the Roland Garros Tournament know the stakes are high. They are not here to merely compete-they are set on winning. |
| For 20 years now IBM has enjoyed a partnership with the Federation Francaise de Tennis (FTT) in the delivery of this flagship tournament. And just as the competitors must be prepared to excel, so must those responsible for making this event come to life. The FTT partners with IBM to provide the technological prowess and infrastructure to deliver the demands of the tournament for 14 days. |
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| Roland-Garros is one of the largest sporting events in the world-more than 415,000 attended the event in person last year at Roland-Garros Stadium in Paris. Meanwhile, at the same time another 2.9 million people from 186 countries "virtually" visited Roland-Garros via the official Web site which was designed, developed and hosted by IBM. In just 14 days, the official Web site served over 177 million Web pages, including live scores for all the matches. |
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IBM delivers an on demand IT solution which allows Roland Garros to improve its return on investment and focus on its core business goal-to build value for the Roland Garros brand worldwide.
By leveraging IBM Grid computing to dynamically reallocate workloads between IBM eServer Intel-processor based xSeries servers running Linux during peak usage, scores are served to tennis fans on RolandGarros.com and a life sciences application is processed during non-peak traffic periods of the tournament.
The IBM solution includes the IBM On Demand Scoreboard, a downloadable application that uses an iSeries at the venue 'to support publishing and scoring systems. The scoring system runs on an eServer i5 520, the Web site Staging server on Linux in separate LPAR's and the Publisher on Linux (SLES 8) on an IXA attached xSeries.
The IBM On Demand Scoreboard also uses IBM WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker software, for visitors able to support a persistent connection. The scoreboard application delivers only the changed score, resulting in less bandwidth and very fast delivery of information to users' desktops.
In addition to providing scores, the application provides tennis fans with match statistics and the schedule of play. |
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