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Olympus America Adds Linux, Gains Three Times the Performance |
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Olympus is currently relocating its North American corporate headquarters to Center Valley, Penn. At this new location, two new System i570s will serve as the company"s data hub, running simultaneously in logical partitions:
The Linux-based Web services applications that interface with Olympus"s JD Edwards World ERP application running on i5/OS and other applications in their network;
i5/OS applications that manage Olympus"s finances and supply chain, and ERP and data warehousing applications that enable Olympus to monitor inventory and ship medical and consumer solutions from warehouses across the country; and
Tivoli Storage Manager running on AIX 5L, which backs up 300 Windows servers to an IBM TotalStorage solution.
"The System i delivers a simplified system to our customers -- no matter the size of the enterprise," said Mark Shearer, general manager, IBM System i. "Olympus"s migration to Linux on System i has enabled it to focus on creating value for its customers, rather than maintaining a costly and unreliable IT environment."
Olympus recently selected IBM technology to expand its Web services environment. Olympus added some 50 Web services built on J2EE and Apache Tomcat to Red Hat Linux running on the System i. Those applications tap just one of the system"s 25 processors and one gigabyte of memory. By a three-to-one margin, the new system outperforms Olympus"s previous environment -- which required two processors and two gigabytes of memory.
"Running Linux on System i has provided Olympus with rock-solid availability and reliability," said Michael Hughes, Executive Director, Application Development and Information Engineering, Olympus America. "Instead of addressing periodic failures and reboots, we can focus on our business while System i handles such key corporate functions as inventory, shipping and finance."
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