Marketing Technology Solutions, Inc.
Marketing Technology Solutions, Inc. is an interactive healthcare marketing solutions provider with clientele in the Fortune 500. MTS’ top Web destination, Quality Health ((www.qualityhealth.com), provides specialized marketing solutions for clients in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and CPG industries who are seeking to reach health-conscious consumers.
Paul Cimino, CTO of MTS, describes Quality Health as a “large, complex health-related consumer Web site with high transactions volumes and millions of consumers.”
Business and technical requirements for the site are continuous availability, responsiveness, and inherent disaster recovery capabilities. On the backend, which is driven by several Oracle databases, MTS needs to be able to perform maintenance and upgrades without affecting the availability of the Web site. MTS also needs to run regular reports and analysis for its customers, currently replicate to a standby facility, and perform data warehousing for archival purposes.
In the initial stages, when MTS first became a client of Logicworks, Logicworks migrated the database from MTS’ location, which ran a Sun/Solaris/9i environment to Logicworks’ managed Intel/Linux/10g platform.
Rapid data growth eventually led to Logicworks adding three Fibre Channel SANs to the environment; two in production, and one at the standby facility. Separating storage into discrete environments helped to mitigate risk while also aiding in performance.
Next, Logicworks upgraded the database environment to Oracle RAC to improve availability and performance.
Logicworks is currently implementing a multi-site high-availability topology, transitioning from an active/ standby replication architecture to a multi-master implementation stretched across data centers that are connected by Logicworks’ own gigabit fiber.
“Logicworks, with its complete and comprehensive service offerings, from Web hosting to monitoring and managing all the applications and database servers, is an ideal match for our needs,” according to Paul Cimino. “It’s critical for us to have a reliable hosting provider who is willing to be accountable for helping to run our business without any interruptions. They help CTO’s like me sleep better at night.”
