BestBuy.com Prepares for Online Holiday Rush With Intel-Based Servers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 With the online holiday rush around the corner, BestBuy.com(TM), a wholly owned Internet subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. turned to Intel-based servers to handle unexpected spikes in Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. . The nation's leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances, has standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Intel-based servers for its online site. "We wanted a low-risk approach to the scalability and stability of the platform, and we wanted this from day one," said John Walden John Walden (1925-) was a London-born member of the colonial administration in Hong Kong from 1951 until his retirement 1980. He graduated in 1950 from Merton College, Oxford, with an Honours Degree. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BestBuy.com. "When we first started, we instantaneously had meaningful volume. Our data center seamlessly handled the volume using our 100 Intel-based servers." BestBuy.com utilizes over 100 Compaq ProLiant 1850 systems with dual Pentium A PC with a motherboard that contains two Pentium CPUs. Such machines are designed for use with an operating system that supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), such as Windows NT or 2000. See SMP. (R) III processors in a tier-based architecture for hardware load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them . This configuration ensures that Web traffic is directed to the "most available" server so customers never have to wait for a response. In addition, the database tier, which carries out data collection and analysis, is made up of 10 Compaq ProLiant 8500 systems powered by eight Pentium(R) III Xeon(TM) processors. BestBuy.com, launched in June 2000, has added even more capacity to its site to be prepared for the online holiday shopping season. "As we approach the holiday season, we're anticipating increased volumes of traffic to the site," said Randy Skare, director of Technology Systems for BestBuy.com. "A lot of people will be looking at new products that will become available shortly before the holiday. So, the important thing for us is the open system approach, the tiered architecture and the ability to scale modularly to handle the kind of loads we expect this holiday season." About Intel Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. Note to Editors: Third party marks and brands are property of their respective holders. |
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