Increasing the Odds of Success
GTECH delivers a lottery winner with Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series
A typical lottery is a highly visible business. If its infrastructure goes down during a peak period, the lottery can face millions of unhappy customers and a spotlight of negative publicity. To help its customers avoid those risks, GTECH standardizes its typical Enterprise Series* (ES) lottery solutions on IBM xSeries* servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. Ravi Paramasivam, GTECH director of technology, says the Intel® technology-based systems process more than 675,000 lottery transactions per minute (TPM) with the reliability such high-profile operations require.
Challenges
• Win competitive bids. Lottery organizations need outstanding transaction processing performance with reliability to last through a five- to 10-year deployment.
• Optimize the data center. GTECH wants to lower its operating costs by reducing power consumption and increasing VM density.
Solutions
• Intel Xeon processors. GTECH deploys a robust virtual environment based on IBM System* x3650 M3 servers powered by the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5650. Servers run Red Hat Enterprise Linux*, IBM DB2*, VMware ESX* 4.1, and JBoss* open source middleware.
• Steady upgrades. GTECH upgraded to the Intel Xeon processor X5650 shortly after Intel introduced it, and is looking toward the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 for future needs.
Impact
• Business growth. Intel® technologies help GTECH offer reliable, high-performance, energy-efficient solutions to grow its customer base.
• Dense, high-performance virtualization. Virtualizing on the Intel® Xeon® processor X5550 reduced GTECH’s server footprint by more than 50 percent. The move to the Intel Xeon processor X5650 increases virtual machine capacity per ESX server by more than 20 percent.
• Cost and carbon savings. With more cores and higher performance per watt, the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series helps GTECH buy fewer servers, lessen its environmental impact, and reduce costs for power, cooling, licensing, and floor space.
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Increasing the Odds of Success
GTECH delivers a lottery winner with Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series
A typical lottery is a highly visible business. If its infrastructure goes down during a peak period, the lottery can face millions of unhappy customers and a spotlight of negative publicity. To help its customers avoid those risks, GTECH standardizes its typical Enterprise Series* (ES) lottery solutions on IBM xSeries* servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. Ravi Paramasivam, GTECH director of technology, says the Intel® technology-based systems process more than 675,000 lottery transactions per minute (TPM) with the reliability such high-profile operations require.
Challenges
• Win competitive bids. Lottery organizations need outstanding transaction processing performance with reliability to last through a five- to 10-year deployment.
• Optimize the data center. GTECH wants to lower its operating costs by reducing power consumption and increasing VM density.
Solutions
• Intel Xeon processors. GTECH deploys a robust virtual environment based on IBM System* x3650 M3 servers powered by the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5650. Servers run Red Hat Enterprise Linux*, IBM DB2*, VMware ESX* 4.1, and JBoss* open source middleware.
• Steady upgrades. GTECH upgraded to the Intel Xeon processor X5650 shortly after Intel introduced it, and is looking toward the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 for future needs.
Impact
• Business growth. Intel® technologies help GTECH offer reliable, high-performance, energy-efficient solutions to grow its customer base.
• Dense, high-performance virtualization. Virtualizing on the Intel® Xeon® processor X5550 reduced GTECH’s server footprint by more than 50 percent. The move to the Intel Xeon processor X5650 increases virtual machine capacity per ESX server by more than 20 percent.
• Cost and carbon savings. With more cores and higher performance per watt, the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series helps GTECH buy fewer servers, lessen its environmental impact, and reduce costs for power, cooling, licensing, and floor space.
Read the full Increasing the Odds of Success Case Study.
