High Performance, Low Cost of Itanium 2-Based HP Integrity Servers Deliver a Sunny Forecast for The Weather Channel

Overview

With The Weather Channel carried by 98% of US cable households, The Weather Channel Companies (TWC) find growth by delivering innovative programming that attracts viewers to watch longer and providing value-added services that offer creatively packaged weather products in new markets and across a wide variety of on-air, on-line, wireless, radio and PC desktop platforms. To do that, TWC needs powerful, cost-efficient IT infrastructure with top performance and agility. TWC migrated 40 business-critical Oracle9i databases from proprietary RISC platforms onto HP Integrity servers based on the powerful Intel Itanium 2 processor running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC).