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TransUnion Interactive Raises ReportingEfficiency with ioMemory

TransUnion Interactive Raises ReportingEfficiency with ioMemoryCredit and information management company usesFusion Powered blades to slash reporting times whileminimizing server footprintThe ChallengeTransUnion Interactive, Inc. (TUI) is a consumer subsidiary of TransUnion.With TransUnion Interactive, businesses can better acquire customers,strengthen long-term customer value and increase their bottom line.Through various sites, including TransUnion.com, consumers can benefitfrom online educational materials, free monthly newsletters and easy-tousetools designed to help them manage and control their finances.TransUnion Interactive’s IT department maintains a reporting environmentin which the company gathers information from all of its websites.Examples include number of users visited, number of visits per user, whichusers pulled reports, statistics around monetary profiles, and so forth.As the number of users and data volume began to grow, generatingreports took an increasingly long time. Infrastructure Architect TimBojorquez told us, “Generating reports on our storage-based systemtook upwards of 30-45 minutes. With so many jobs being run daily, somebusiness users were not receiving their reports until the afternoon.”TUI’s Director of Infrastructure and Architecture Ramdas Kenjale, workedwith Tim and his team to look for ways that TUI could cost-effectivelyimprove the performance of its reporting system to ensure employeeswere armed with the information they needed to make decisions whenthey arrived in the morning.Solution Focus• Oracle Database• Financial IndustrySUMMARY OF BENEFITS• 7-9x faster reporting• Performance of several shelvesof disks per ioDrive• Easy implementation• High ROI from offloadingreporting off SAN ontoioDrives• Best price-to-performance value“Generating reports went from taking30 to 45 minutes off the back-endstorage to about five minutes runningoff the ioDrives.”Tim Bojorquez,Infrastructure ArchitectWWW.FUSIONIO.COM©2012 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. ioDrive ® is a registered trademark of Fusion-io in the United States and/or other countries.All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are property of their respective owners. 3

“The ROI on the ioDrives is considerable. Without Fusion-io, the IOPS necessary to support fast reporting underour current query load would have taken shelves of wasted, striped capacity,” Tim said. “We would have needed10-12 shelves of disk storage and three times the money to equal the IOPS capabilities three ioDrives achievedwith a single blade server. Fusion-io was not only faster, but more cost effective.”“The ioDrives are less expensive than competing solid-state products when priced on performance,” Ramdasadded. “Performance was our primary goal, but the ioDrives enabled us to do more with less hardware, whichis always a benefit.”System OverviewSystem BeforeDatabase Servers• 3 x blade servers quad-core 2.66GHz processor,64GB RAM• OS: RHEL 5• Application: Oracle 11.2.01 in Oracle RACStorage (NFS)• 4 shelves of 144GB, 10k RPM disks in RAID-DP(~5.5TB)System AfterDatabase Servers• 1 x blade server, quad-core 2.4GHz processor,96GB RAM• 3 x 320GB ioDrives• OS: RHEL 5• Application: Oracle 11.2.01 standaloneStorage (NFS)• 4 x 144GB, 10k RPM disks (500GB)BEFOREAFTERDatabase serversStorage (NFS)Database serversStorage (NFS)3 x 320GB ioDrives©2012 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. ioDrive ® is a registered trademark of Fusion-io in the United States and/or other countries.WWW.FUSIONIO.COM All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are property of their respective owners. 5

SummaryImplementing the ioDrives gave TUI the following benefits:• 7-9x faster reporting• Performance of several shelves of disks per ioDrive• Easy implementation• High ROI from offloading reporting off SAN onto ioDrives• Best price-to-performance valueTim is thrilled with the Fusion Powered blade system and told us, “We just purchased higher capacity IOAccelerators to grow the reporting environment and look forward to evaluating several other I/O constrainedareas where the existing ones can help us.”About the CustomerTransUnion Interactive, Inc. is a consumer subsidiary of TransUnion. As a global leader in information and riskmanagement, TransUnion creates advantages for millions of people around the world by gathering, analyzingand delivering information. For businesses, TransUnion helps improve efficiency, manage risk, reduce costs andincrease revenue by delivering high quality data, and integrating advanced analytics and enhanced decisionmakingcapabilities. For consumers, TransUnion provides the tools, resources and education to help managetheir credit health and achieve their financial goals. Through these and other efforts, TransUnion is workingto build stronger economies worldwide. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Chicago, TransUnion reachesbusinesses and consumers in 25 countries around the world. www.transunion.com Follow us on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/TransUnion.CSJM121311WWW.FUSIONIO.COM©2012 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. ioDrive ® is a registered trademark of Fusion-io in the United States and/or other countries.All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are property of their respective owners. 6

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