en-japan, Inc.
Supporting System Availability of Growing Job Search Site with Solaris 10 and Oracle on x86en-japan, Inc. is a job search Web site publisher in Japan that is growing at 150% annually. One of its most successful sites, [en] Student Job Information, helps students and new graduates find their first job. en-japan provides unique and trusted value to job seekers. Instead of simply posting employer-supplied information, it creates an independent profile of each employer. For employers, en-japan adds value through the quality of candidates, cost-performance and high employment success rates. Customer Challenges
Solutionen-japan migrated from a Linux-based solution to the Solaris 10 Operating System on x86 servers running Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition database. Business Results
Story DetailsWhen your value proposition resonates with the marketplace, growth naturally follows. This is the case with publisher en-japan’s job search site, called [en] Student Job Information, where it is providing a valued and trusted solution for employees and employers alike. This success is due to the excellence of its content. The resulting growth, which used to stress the company’s infrastructure during peak usage periods, now encounters no barriers. This publisher needs to serve content such as videos, pictures and text with good response times during February and March when separate sites for three consecutive graduating classes are experiencing peak access levels. Response times were suffering on the old database system based on LAMP running on a single x86 server Failure was a threat, and so en-japan knew it had to either improve its infrastructure to support growth or risk system outages.
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The number of job seekers accessing our site has increased more than we expected, and their usage styles have been varied. On our previous system, the site might have been overloaded, but our new system based on Solaris 10 has significantly contributed to our business.
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— Mr. Takayoshi Hashizume, Development Group Manager for Media Development, en-japan
en-japan engaged Sun partner Flight Systems Consulting, Inc., which saw the need for a highly available solution and a scalable core database system—allowing nodes to be added to accommodate future growth needs. Flight Systems Consulting chose the Solaris 10 Operating System on x86 and the Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition (Oracle EE) database engine as the foundation of the solution. The company recommended this approach for several reasons, including cost performance, professional vendor support, extensibility and reliability. In addition, Flight Systems Consulting saw advantages in using the Solaris 64-bit architecture to support large capacity memory needs and it liked the compatibility between the Solaris Operating System and Oracle database. The partner implemented multiple database application servers and used the Oracle Real Application Clusters function of Oracle EE due to its “Active-Active” failover function that transfers processing from one database server to another if an error occurs. en-japan is currently running its sites for 2008 and 2009 graduates on this more robust infrastructure. It has found that job seeker access has increased more than expected and the usage styles have varied. The company believes that Solaris 10 with Oracle helped grow its business and it can now leverage an infrastructure that supports expansion of its information offerings. Moving forward, en-japan will be studying and reporting on the performance of job seekers who accepted positions from its listings and will be adding additional information to better assist current job seekers. |
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