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The Penguin and the Processor: Enabling Plaxo to Keep Customers Connected

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Overview Plaxo helps millions around the world enrich their connections with the people they know and care about. The company operates a large and fast growing network of networked address books - hosting over 50 million accounts - and is bringing those address books to life with its next-generation social network, Pulse. Plaxo's services with AOL Instant Messenger, essentially doubling its user base almost instantaneously. Because of the partnership, Plaxo realized it would need to overhaul its IT infrastructure to support a major influx of users, and their data, on a tight timeframe - it had just four months to complete the upgrade. Plaxo decided to implement 161 Penguin Computing servers running Apache and MySQL, powered by AMD Opteron processors.

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Publisher	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Processors, Application Servers, File and Network Servers

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