Small footprint
One thing that's notable about the 2007 U.S. Open relative to previous years is that the footprint is considerably smaller. This rack of blades essentially runs all of the publishing, editing, staging and scoring information on the U.S. Open Web site. IBM has gone to a virtualized environment for its grand slam operations and cut the number of servers used from 60 to 9 at the U.S. Open. This virtualization technology comes via IBM's Tivoli software.
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