Leading Online Information Services Provider Implements EMC TimeFinder Software to Accelerate Year 2000 Application Testing
EMC Corporation announced today that LEXIS-NEXIS, one of the world`s premier providers of online information services, has achieved a milestone of 600,000 interactive online searches in a single day with the help of EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems. Over the last three years, LEXIS-NEXIS has more than doubled the number of searches it handles daily.
"The explosion in the use of online information services has created a need for fast, around-the-clock access to information," said Mike Manuel, LEXIS-NEXIS Senior Staff Systems Engineer. "The high performance and availability of EMC Symmetrix systems and software have allowed us to achieve the quick response times and continuous operation our customers demand."
LEXIS-NEXIS, based in Dayton, Ohio, also has implemented EMC TimeFinder software to test its applications and data for Year 2000 compatibility. While test applications are running, TimeFinder creates a mirrored copy of the LEXIS-NEXIS test environment, enabling programmers to experiment with how data responds to the Year 2000 date change.
"TimeFinder definitely has accelerated our Year 2000 testing," explained Manuel. "TimeFinder provides a picture of our environment across various platforms in as little as a matter of minutes. This alternative eliminated the need for our system administrators to manually back up data from each system individually, which can take several hours and must be performed at night when test systems are down."
"Another key advantage is that EMC Enterprise Storage Platform software enables our Year 2000 data across mainframe and open systems to be consolidated onto a single EMC Symmetrix system," Manuel continued. "That allows us to more effectively utilize the available storage across a wider variety of applications."
LEXIS-NEXIS relies on eight terabytes -- the equivalent of two billion pages of text -- of EMC Enterprise Storage to support its mission-critical online information search engine databases, as well as Oracle, Sybase and DB2 billing applications. The Symmetrix systems deliver storage to IBM and Hitachi mainframes and Hewlett-Packard and Sun servers.
"LEXIS-NEXIS and other successful companies operating in the competitive online, Internet arena have no choice but to deliver fast response times and 24-hour-a-day availability to their users," said Bob Dutkowsky, EMC`s Executive Vice President of Markets and Channels. "The exceptional performance and reliability of EMC Enterprise Storage systems and the advanced functionality of EMC software solutions provide these businesses with the tools they need to stay ahead of growing customer demand and their competition."
Editors Note
EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world`s technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company`s products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing environments, including UNIX, Windows NT and mainframe platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC`s corporate web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com.
LEXIS-NEXIS is celebrating 25 years as the world`s leading provider of enhanced information services and management tools. The company`s mission is to help legal, business and government professionals collect, manage and use information more productively. Information about LEXIS-NEXIS and its parent company Reed Elsevier Inc. is available at the LEXIS-NEXIS Communication Center website, www.lexis-nexis.com.
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