Thomson Reuters: What does Thomson Reuters infrastructure look like?

[wian]

Throughout the week, the NetApp Community will focus on a series of questions that highlights how Thomson Reuters followed a path of steady IT evolution that ultimately allowed them to avoid $65 million in costs, reduce power use by 25%, and improve availability, all while allowing them to search 50X more data in half the time.

What does the Thomson Reuters infrastructure look like?

You can check out the article at: http://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-11728

Watch the Thomson Reuters video at: http://communities.netapp.com/videos/1882

[arndt]

Hi all - Mike Arndt here, I am a NetApp Systems Engineer and have been working with Thomson Reuters in a variety of roles over the past 6+ years.

The Thomson Reuters infrastructure consists of pretty standard building blocks. They have between 25,000 and 30,000 x86 servers in their data centers, most with 2- or 4-CPU configurations.  The network infrastructure is mainly 10-Gigabit Ethernetusing Cisco 6500 and Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 family switches.

The NetApp storage is offered internally as a shared service, or used in a dedicated fashion for certain very high performance requirements, and all NetApp storage is backed up using NetApp SnapShots and SnapVault for disk to disk replication.