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US Open
Linux at IBM Rises to the Challenge on the Hard Courts of the USTA's US Open
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Few professional tennis players have mastered the US Open, Roland-Garros, Wimbledon and the Australian Open, but Linux at IBM has successfully transformed all four events into on demand businesses.
With professional tennis players and fans shifting their attention to the US Open, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) will be ready for the surge in demand on their information technology systems. For a few weeks each summer the US Open's site must be able to handle increased traffic from around the world. They have turned to IBM for technology solutions to make them a successful on demand business. Since 2001 solutions have been running on Linux. |
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In 2004, 2.8 million visitors to the US Open Web site logged more than 15.4 million visits-35 times the regular traffic loads the rest of the year. The official US Open Web site stands out from the crowd with results as they occur in real-time and IBM's on demand solutions respond to this spike in traffic. The USTA gets the capacity they need when they need it. They also get responsive, scalable, and reliable systems, running on Linux that assures them hassle free operations. The fans get up-to-date scoring in the stadium, accurate information from the official broadcasters, and on-line access to the real-time scores and statistics on USOpen.org using the IBM On Demand Scoreboard and Matches in Progress pages.
Robust Linux-based solutions are used throughout the solution for the US Open. The Web hosting Service Delivery Centers use IBM eServer xSeries® (running Linux) and IBM eServer pSeries® 615 servers (running AIX) to support the USOpen.org Web site. New this year in one of the three hosting locations are p5-550 and p5-570 servers to support the USOpen.org Web site (HTTP serving and application serving) leveraging IBM's Advanced POWER Virtualization technologies.
At the venue there is an IBM eServer iSeries® running Linux on POWER and i5/OS. This system is running IBM DB2® Universal Database (UDB) for Linux to support the Internet scoring system, WebSphere Application Server on Linux to support the Web site staging server, and WebSphere Portal content publisher on an IXA attached xSeries running Linux to support the content publishing application. Data on the matches is available in real-time at the venue and for Web served pages. In 2004, visitors to the US Open site were served over 94 million score updates during the tournament. As scores change, IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Event Broker middleware immediately "pushes" the data to the IBM On Demand Scoreboard and the Matches in Progress page on a fan's computer. It's a responsive and efficient way to deliver real-time match results and it gives the official tournament Web site a competitive advantage.
Tivoli® Software provides extensive application and hardware platform monitoring for the entire event infrastructure. DB2 Express on Linux is also used to support the Intranet system at the US Open. |
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The solutions IBM has developed for the US Open transforms the USTA into an On Demand Business with less financial, technical and management pain. With the help of IBM, the USTA delivers outstanding service to an audience of hundreds of millions around the globe. The IBM Linux solution implemented for the US Open allows fans to focus on the action, and the USTA to focus on tennis, not technology. On schedule, on budget and on demand.
Contact us and learn how IBM can put the experience of the US Open to work for your organization. |
For such large sporting events, IBM needs to deliver on the promise of a highly available and highly scalable Web site. The system for the US Open has exceeded all expectations.
John J. Kent, Program Manager, IBM |
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