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Backed by HP, Visa Debit Processing Service (DPS) Delivers Flawless Service Through the Busy Peak Season

Overview Formed in 1995 as part of Visa USA, Visa DPS provides a full range of processing services for Visa payment products. In pace with the exploding popularity of debit card usage, the company's transaction volumes grew more than 100 percent each of its first five years. It now processes 6.6 billion debit transactions a year. To ensure uninterrupted service, Visa DPS runs its mission-critical transaction processing application, eFunds CONNEX Advantage, on four fault-tolerant HP NonStop S-series systems. The scalability, availability, and data integrity of the systems the servers of choice for financial services worldwide-have enabled Visa DPS to deliver topnotch service while handling ever-increasing volumes.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2004	Downloads	17
Format	Case Studies
Topics	High Availability, x86-standard Servers

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