Users Turn To Grid Computing for Performance

Jan 28, 2009, 10:34 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Paul Shread)

""We needed a reliable, stable and supported version of Linux that was tested and production-ready to support millions -- and now billions -- of records per day through our application. Red Hat was that solution," stated Terry Talley, chief technology officer at Acxiom.

"Acxiom's grid infrastructure is designed to improve efficiency, maintain consistency across its systems and logically partition resources to meet client demands. Red Hat Enterprise Linux's certification system lets Acxiom save money by making hardware decisions independent of the operating system, the company said."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Scale Your File System With Parallel NFS(Nov 13, 2008)
• Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers(Nov 11, 2008)
• How Two of the World's Largest Websites Use Linux for High Availability(Nov 11, 2008)
• CERN Fires Up Massive Grid(Oct 08, 2008)
• Red Hat Linux Trumps Unix on TPC Price/Performance Test(Oct 03, 2008)
• The World's Biggest Science Experiment Runs Linux(Sep 10, 2008)
• RHEL 5.1 Breaks Transaction Processing Records in Financial Services(May 08, 2008)