Enterprise Content Management Performance at a Fraction of the Cost of
Proprietary Offerings
LONDON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open
source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that it reached
and exceeded the 100 million document mark in an independently certified
benchmark test of Alfresco Enterprise 2.1, conducted by Unisys Corporation, in
compliance with predetermined benchmark rules.
The benchmark was conducted on an eight-way Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise
Server employing dual core Intel Xeon processor technology, using a MySQL
database and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. The benchmark
demonstrated the readiness of Alfresco for enterprise-class ECM with:
-- Continuous, transactionally safe upload of more than 100 million
objects
-- Linear scalability of 140 objects per second
-- Sub-second access times from standard clients - shared drive, file
transfer protocol and web client
-- Linear scalability for large repository search
"This benchmark drew on Unisys' long experience providing integrated,
enterprise-class ECM solutions with a range of partners," said Anthony Gold,
vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys. "Modeling
the most common customer transactions in an environment that would exceed most
customer sizing requirements, this benchmark demonstrates the performance
capability that Alfresco 2.1 brings to the requirements of large enterprise
customers."
"Alfresco was designed from day one to offer the industry-leading ECM
scalability and high-availability required by the Global 2000," said John
Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software. "This allows Alfresco to deliver linear
scalability without artificial limits forcing content to be spread over
multiple site collections with severe performance degradation as the size of
the repository increases."
Alfresco is the open source ECM of choice of the Global 2000. The company
now has more than 300 customers, including the American Stock Exchange, Boise
Cascade, Christian Science Monitor, Informa and the Nebraska State
Legislature. The community version of Alfresco's open source ECM has been
downloaded more than 700,000 times.
In late 2006, Unisys became Alfresco's first Platinum-level Systems
Integration partner, adding the Alfresco open source software suite and
relationship to its strong global ECM solution and partner portfolio that
today serves hundreds of major clients. Unisys also became an Alfresco
Platinum Reseller early in 2007.
Alfresco and Unisys expect to conduct further benchmark testing in the
near future. For more information about the results of the Alfresco Enterprise
2.1 benchmark test, please cut and paste the following URL into a browser:
http://unisys.com/eprise/main/admin/corporate/doc/Alfresco_Benchmark_Rep
ort_BL100093.pdf
Alfresco Enterprise Edition 2.1 can be downloaded at
http://www.alfresco.com
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc. is the first and leading open source alternative
for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power
of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling
unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary
systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the
co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects,
John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, go to
http://www.alfresco.com.
Media Contacts:
Alfresco Software, Inc.
Patricia Colby, Page One PR
415-875-7494
patricia@pageonepr.com
SOURCE Alfresco Software, Inc.
Patricia Colby of Page One PR, +1-415-875-7494, patricia@pageonepr.com, for
Alfresco Software, Inc.
