Sprint, a global communications company serving in excess of 26 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries, has won the prestigious DM Review 2006 World Class Solution Award in the High Availability, Performance, and Systems Management category.
The Sprint Operational Data Store (ODS) Network Event Collection Solution, based on HP NonStop servers and a NonStop SQL database, processes 365 million call detail records (CDRs) and operational measurements (OMs) per day with 99.999 percent availability. It also makes customer file changes at the rate of 100 per second and supports customer service queries (immediate response) at the rate of 2,000 per second.
The initiative was undertaken because the patented zero latency enterprise (ZLE) architecture from HP —the foundational element of the Sprint ODS solution—was the only technology available that could handle Sprint’s mixed transactional and ad hoc query workload and meet the company’s rigorous requirements. Sprint ODS delivers a real-time view of what is happening in the Sprint network, enabling executives to make informed business decisions on the fly as dictated by changing network events.
World-class solution; world-class savings
The Sprint ODS solution reduces cost by requiring 70 percent fewer database analysts and 50 percent fewer system administration personnel than commercial database products.
It helps protect against network outages that could cost Sprint more than US$10 million dollars per outage. And it reduces loss due to fraud by several million dollars per year. Support for open standards in the NonStop system environment is another area in which Sprint saves money, because the company does not need to invest in special programmers. For developers on the Open Systems Services (OSS) side of the NonStop system environment, it is essentially like working on any other UNIX® platform.
Sprint piles up awards with NonStop technology
Last year, Sprint won yet another prestigious award. The company was named first-place winner for the largest database in the world in the Winter TopTen Program for its NonStop SQL database implementation, comprising more than 2.847 trillion rows—nearly twice the size of second-place winner AT&T Labs Research and a fivefold increase since the last program was conducted in 2003.
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DM Review, the premier source for business intelligence, analytics, integration, and data warehousing, originated the World Class Solution Awards in 1996 to showcase industry best practices and mark a tradition of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry.
Find out more
To find out how Sprint runs its business on NonStop technology, see the HP success story, Sprint counts on NonStop servers across the enterprise for superior performance with low TCO.
This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. August 2006.
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