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Acuity Brands Lighting Retools Operations for Added Performance, Reliability, and Scalability

Category: Data Management, IT Management

Overview Acuity Brands Lighting, a business unit of Acuity Brands, Inc., is North America's largest provider of indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for new construction and renovation markets. The company wanted to enhance scalability for business and manufacturing applications. The challenge was to improve reliability and performance for mission-critical applications and gain new levels of flexibility to capitalize on opportunities rapidly. They also wanted to increase return on investment for enterprisewide application infrastructures. The company implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux to create a reliable, highly-flexible IT platform and gained the ability to add capacity quickly and cost effectively as needed with Oracle Real Application Clusters.

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Publisher: Oracle
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jul 11, 2007
Format: Case Studies
Topics: Database Applications, Database Management, Infrastructure Management

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