In November, magazine and website AutoTrader started to
use computing grids to support a rapid expansion of its online
motor exchange operations without the need for major capital
investment in new enterprise servers.
AutoTrader said that if it had not invested in grid
technologies, it would have been forced into a Unix server upgrade,
which would have meant a capital investment of more than £1m. Its
grid runs Oracle Database 10g and Real Application Clusters on Sun
v40z Opteron servers running Red Hat 3AS.
