Bonnier Relies on Oracle(r) to Power Popular Online Properties
Leading Publisher Upgrades to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with Oracle Unbreakable Linux Program to Support a Greater Number of Concurrent Visitors to Web Sites
May 19, 2008
News Facts
To accommodate existing business requirements, Bonnier Corporation has deployed Oracle(r) infrastructure software as its online property foundation for popular magazine titles such as Field & Stream, Parenting, Outdoor Life, Sport Diver, among many others.
Bonnier Corp. is one of the largest consumer-publishing groups in America, and with more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events, it is the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences. With over 1,000 employees and more than $350 million in annual revenue, Bonnier Corp. ranks in the top 15 nationally among publishing companies.
The publisher runs Oracle Database on Oracle Enterprise Linux supported with Oracle Unbreakable Linux program, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Following the acquisition of titles such as Field & Stream, Parenting, Outdoor Life, Popular Science, and others, from Time Inc. in 2007, Bonnier Corp. initiated a move to a larger data center to better support all of its online properties including those of its newly acquired print publications.
As part of its data center expansion, Bonnier Corp. upgraded from Oracle Database Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition to provide high availability to a larger number of highly trafficked Web properties as well as to power homegrown content management and CRM applications. The publisher's IT staff also heavily utilized Oracle Streams, a data replication and integration feature of Oracle Database, to help reduce the time and costs related to the migration of its Web properties from its old data center to its new data center.
Bonnier Corp.'s IT staff moved its Oracle Databases from Red Hat Linux onto Oracle Enterprise Linux to lower support costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program, consolidate support under Oracle, and optimize the performance of its Oracle Databases.
Bonnier's database administrator (DBA) staff has eased the monitoring and administration of its Oracle Databases with the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager -- saving the staff from many hours of menial DBA tasks. For example, Bonnier's DBAs have used Oracle Enterprise Manager's Provisioning pack to automate deployment of database instances on new hardware. DBAs have streamlined these tasks from hours to several minutes.
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"We've been using Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program for production systems for several months now -- even longer in development," said Scott Baker, Database Administration Manager, Bonnier Corp. "It's a benefit having Oracle as a single point of support for Linux and Oracle Database rather than bouncing back and forth between Oracle and another vendor."
"We're heavily using Oracle Enterprise Manager within our environment," added Baker. "I have peace of mind knowing that Oracle Enterprise Manager's monitoring capabilities are going to pick up any issues that might occur and immediately alert my team."
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