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Rakuten Securties Inc. which was founded in March of 1999, is the first company in Japan to specialize in on-line trading over the Internet. When they decided to migrate their mission critical database operations, Rakuten selected HP-UX 11i on Integrity Superdome and Oracle 9i RAC. Rakuten Securities Inc. is just one of several companies that are a part of Rakuten Inc., which also operates Rakuten Ichiba, the busiest on-line shopping mall and on-line auction for Japanese consumers.
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The highest priority for Rakuten Securities Inc. was to ensure continuity of service to their customers. They needed a system that would be highly reliable and highly available to avoid disruptions in service that would affect the Customer lifestyle. They manage their own system development and operations to provide high-value-added services to their customers and to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
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In April 2005, because they were experiencing an increase in the number of customer accounts and trades, Rakuten Securities Inc. decided to migrate their mission critical database operations (for over 600,000 accounts) , to Oracle 9i RAC. They have chosen HP-UX on Integrity Superdomes with active-active cluster and a scale-out configuration.
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Close collaboration between HP and Oracle helped Rakuten Securities Inc. to smoothly migrate to Oracle 9i RAC running on the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system. Three sets of 2- node RAC clusters were configured with 32-CPU HP Integrity Superdome systems.
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- Highly reliable and highly available system
- Lower cost of operation
- Improved service to customers
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