Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Thomson Reuters chooses new servers with multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors to cost-effectively meet growing demand for its Westlaw* database services.
Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years, originally through West casebooks, practice guides, and treatise materials and now through the Westlaw* online research service. Nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms use the company’s search engines to find key legal information and research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for researchers in science, healthcare, business, and other fields.
With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. The company had two data centers at its Minnesota headquarters and was already building a third.
The Thomson Reuters IT team had long used Intel® processor–based servers and knew that Intel had a wealth of experience running large data centers. “We met with Intel IT consultants who shared information on how to design higher-density infrastructures that would enable us to grow cost-effectively,” says Christopher Crowhurst, vice president of architecture and business systems infrastructure at Thomson Reuters. “We decided to use virtualization to consolidate our existing server infrastructure, in addition to using blade servers to increase the density in our new facility.”
Intel® Xeon® processors enable cost-effective growth
The Thomson Reuters team selected two-socket IBM HS21* blades with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series for energy-efficient performance in the new data center. For its virtualization platform, the team chose four-socket IBM 3850 M2* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series. “The four-way servers with quad-core Intel processors allowed us to put more virtual machines on each server for maximum consolidation,” says Crowhurst. “Together with the blade servers and processors, they’ve enabled us to dramatically slow the consumption of data center power and physical space without slowing business growth.”
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Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Thomson Reuters chooses new servers with multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors to cost-effectively meet growing demand for its Westlaw* database services.
Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years, originally through West casebooks, practice guides, and treatise materials and now through the Westlaw* online research service. Nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms use the company’s search engines to find key legal information and research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for researchers in science, healthcare, business, and other fields.
With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. The company had two data centers at its Minnesota headquarters and was already building a third.
The Thomson Reuters IT team had long used Intel® processor–based servers and knew that Intel had a wealth of experience running large data centers. “We met with Intel IT consultants who shared information on how to design higher-density infrastructures that would enable us to grow cost-effectively,” says Christopher Crowhurst, vice president of architecture and business systems infrastructure at Thomson Reuters. “We decided to use virtualization to consolidate our existing server infrastructure, in addition to using blade servers to increase the density in our new facility.”
Intel® Xeon® processors enable cost-effective growth
The Thomson Reuters team selected two-socket IBM HS21* blades with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series for energy-efficient performance in the new data center. For its virtualization platform, the team chose four-socket IBM 3850 M2* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series. “The four-way servers with quad-core Intel processors allowed us to put more virtual machines on each server for maximum consolidation,” says Crowhurst. “Together with the blade servers and processors, they’ve enabled us to dramatically slow the consumption of data center power and physical space without slowing business growth.”
Read the full Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law Case Study.
