“First Major Commercial Linux installation in Europe enables
Telia to host more than 1500 web servers on a single, scalable IBM
mainframe server.”
“IBM and Telia, Scandinavia’s largest telecommunications and
internet service provider, today announced that Telia will be the
first European company to deploy a major commercial IT system based
on Linux.”
“Telia will install a combination of IBM mainframe and Shark
storage technology, both running on Linux, to host and run their
business and consumer Internet services operations across
Scandinavia. Using this technology, Telia will also offer customers
in the Nordic countries IP-VPN (Internet Protocol/Virtual Private
Network) services. Telia will replace its 70 existing web hosting
unix servers with a single IBM S/390 G6 enterprise server, which
will host more than 1500 virtual internet Linux servers
simultaneously. Each virtual server acts as a web server for
individual Telia-hosted business customers. Telia will also move
data from its current storage servers to a 11.4 Terabyte IBM
Enterprise Storage Server (“Shark”).”
“This new S/390 running Linux allows us to rethink our total
pricing structure for internet services and to offer customers a
more affordable web application service than ever before,” says
Henrik Wulff Riedl, CFO, TeliaNet. “With this Installation, Telia
wants to give higher availability and reliability to its customers
while saving costs at the same time. In addition, Telia is
intending to replace an existing customer billing system for
internet service providers based on Oracle databases.”