Whether users access Telescan servers through the Wall Street City site or any of the other financial service sites Telescan supports, Compaq ProLiant TM systems handle all transactions. For example, the Wall Street City site quickly and efficiently handles investor traffic that results in nearly 18 million page views per month. Customers pay for products in a secure online environment with Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition software. Those Compaq ProLiant TM servers can handle 150 million page views per month. That's a very high capacity for Web sites providing high-end financial services.
Load balancing technology distributes transaction loads to available servers to keep response high.
A redundant Cisco gigabit network backbone links the servers. Each rack-mounted server has redundant power supplies and plugs into redundant electrical grids. Compaq engineers and consultants are very experienced in working with Internet companies and know the best way to build a redundant environment. The engineers also installed and configured Compaq StorageWorks TM systems and Compaq Insight Manager TM , which monitors the entire RAID 5 environment around the clock. Across Telescan, Compaq StorageWorks TM systems keep a terabyte of information highly available to users.