THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ESPÍRITO SANTO REPLACES ITS STORAGE UNIT IN ORDER TO SPEED UP ACCESS TO ITS DATABASE. THE INITIATIVE WILL SERVE AS A FOUNDATION FOR THE VIRTUALIZATION OF SERVICES AND COUNTED ON THE PARTICIPATION OF CIMCORP.

In practical terms, the Brazilian government is one of the main clients in the IT industry. This occurs in all spheres. Every day more services are supported by technology, but tangible benefits at one point, if not well dimensioned, cause bottlenecks at another point. “When we managed to deliver computers to more users, the quantity of accesses to the applications went up a lot”, commented Rodrigo Esteves Gomes, support analyst of the Supreme Court of the State of Espírito Santo (TJ-ES).

The Espírito Santo institution reflects how computers have become rooted in public spheres.

The TJ-ES went through a moment of significant evolution in its technological architecture. Just to give you an idea, in 2006 approximately 2 thousand employees accessed the database. Now, this number surpasses 5.5 thousand. “What we have in number of simultaneous accesses nowadays, is what we used to have in total, the Court launches initiatives and advances towards the automation of the processes and the digitalization of documents. Such information would traffic through the network and would be stored in a storage unit via Oracle database. At the time, three years ago, the equipment available met the requirements, but the demand quickly became superior to what had been estimated and we began to suffer with the week performance of the applications”, he said, mentioning that the user started to complain about the slowness of the system, which began to give signs of stress.

The amount of data generated, in the words of the executive, was absurd. “The lack of space began to show”, the analyst defined. After a brief verification, the IT team concluded that one of the bottlenecks was in the storage, at the time it had the gross capacity for 7 terabytes, which had been operating since 2006. But the machine’s history wasn’t very encouraging. In only a year, it gave signs that it would not support the demand and, in less than two years, it was no longer possible to maintain it, much less expand applications. So that the TJ-ES would not be left hanging, it designed a project for the expansion of its storage capacity in the second semester of 2007. “We had two basic needs: more disk space, because the databases grew too much; and better performance for the access to Oracle requirements”, said Gomes.

After this was defined, the conceptual and specification part dragged on until April of 2008. With the parameters established, a bid was opened and concluded around November, with CIMCORP presenting the winning bid.

An EMC Clarion Cx4 240 machine arrived around January of the following year.  Eight people from the infrastructure team began to work in partnership with four outsourced professionals and another four specialists from the IT integrator.

Source: Information Week