Cquay Validates Common Ground's Scalability With Assistance From Burntsand, Sun, EMC and Oracle.Business Editors CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001 Cquay Inc., a provider of location intelligence for the enterprise(TM), today announced the completion of a comprehensive Performance and Scalability Initiative that validates the scalability of the Common Ground(R) Service Platform. To support on-line location intelligence services and the anticipated delivery of 300 transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed from a large-scale location database, Cquay requires a high-performance, scalable, application architecture and infrastructure. "The Performance and Scalability Initiative addressed this requirement and validated val·i·date tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. the core application architecture and scalability/performance assumptions," declared Gerrit Boerman, Cquay's director of e-Service Delivery. The Performance and Scalability Initiative was conducted by Cquay with significant assistance from various strategic partners and vendors, including Burntsand, Sun, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and Oracle. Testing and validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. of the architecture took place through an engagement with Burntsand, in their Authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: iForce(SM) Ready Center. iForce Ready Centers are the foundation of Sun Microsystems' iForce initiative, a far-reaching program that brings together under one umbrella all of Sun's dot-com programs, products, services and solutions aimed at customers ranging from startups to large enterprises. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. of Canada Inc. arranged for support from Sun and Oracle via the Sun Oracle Application Technology Center (SOATC SOATC Special Operations Aviation Training Company (US Army, 160th SOAR) SOATC Sun/Oracle Application Technology Center ), to provide a design review of the high-availability Common Ground infrastructure. SOATC is a joint venture between Sun and Oracle with the goal of delivering proven performance and sizing recommendations to customers using Sun/Oracle Applications. "Burntsand's state-of-the art facility, with support from the other strategic partners, provided Cquay with a robust, multi-vendor, environment for systematic testing," explains Calvin McElroy, 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. for Cquay. "As a result of our work with the iForce Ready Center, we confirmed that the Common Ground platform and our proprietary location object caching technology will enable us to achieve our performance targets." "Cquay certainly proved to be an interesting customer for the iForce Ready Center. Cquay's infrastructure requirements were quite unique and went well beyond traditional web-application standards," observed Dave Edmonds, co-founder and VP of Burntsand Inc. EMC provided their proven Storage Area Network (SAN) and Enterprise Storage technology and expertise, and created an environment to host the large-scale Common Ground database, within the iForce Ready Center. The Performance & Scalability Initiative, including the learnings from the iForce Ready Center, culminated in a new release of Common Ground on October 23rd, 2001 and provides Cquay the foundation for future scalable deployment. Other current Cquay e-Service Delivery initiatives include the selection of a Storage Area Network technology vendor and a Managed Service provider, to provide the infrastructure to support Common Ground deployment in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Cquay Inc. Cquay (www.cquay.com) provides location intelligence services to the enterprise. Cquay's Common Ground(R) services platform enables IT professionals to easily and cost-effectively add location intelligence to any corporate database, legacy system, web solution or wireless application. Cquay(TM), Location Smart(TM), Location Intelligence for the Enterprise(TM), USL (UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.) An AT&T subsidiary formed in 1990, responsible for developing and marketing Unix. In 1993, USL was acquired by Novell and merged into Novell's UNIX Systems Group (USG). See Univel. 1. (R) and Common Ground(R) are trademarks used by the corporation. |
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