Thomson Peterson's Gets Performance Boost by Using ScaleOut StateServer

Thomson Peterson’s is a leading provider of live, online, and print educational solutions for students, families, schools, and educators in the areas of test preparation, admissions, financial aid, and career guidance. Its Web site offers searchable databases and interactive tools for contacting educational institutions, online practice tests and instruction, and planning tools for securing financial aid.

Before ScaleOut StateServer, Thomson Peterson's stored their session-state data for their online applications in a DBMS, but needed to speed up user response time. At the same time, they could not risk having session data become unavailable in the event of a server or network failure. By using ScaleOut StateServer instead of a DBMS, they saw an immediate performance speed-up, making their customers more productive. Also, session-state information remains highly available due to ScaleOut Software’s StoreSafe™ replication technology. In the future, Thomson Peterson’s will benefit by having a scalable architecture without any bottlenecks or single point of contention as they add more servers to their Web farm.

The Thomson Corporation is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) has approximately 38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals, learning institutions, corporations and government agencies with products and services for both traditional and distributed learning. Thomson Peterson’s serves 110 million education consumers annually.

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