El Mercurio, Chile's Largest Newspaper, Enhances Web Infrastructure with RepliWeb to Support Escalation of Web Content and Readership during the 2010 World Cup
RepliWeb software powers real-time publication of game updates, video clips, team statistics, commentary, and other content throughout El Mercurio's production data centers
RepliWeb, a leader in web deployment automation and application lifecycle management software, today announced that El Mercurio, Chile's largest online news portal, selected its' RepliWeb Deployment (R-1) product to automate and accelerate the publication of rich media, content and live commentary throughout its datacenter infrastructure.
El Mercurio anticipated a 30% increase in web traffic during the 2010 World Cup, and sought a solution that could help them to ensure real-time publication of content, play-by-play updates, video, statistics and other fan-essential futbol information throughout the two week event. "El Mercurio operates the number-one news information portal in Chile. Since the 2006 World Cup, our online readership at www.emol.com has expanded by 120%", said Robinson Abarca S., Systems Manager at El Mercurio. "Our ability to deliver the fastest access to World Cup-related information is important not only to our readers, but also to the web advertisers who are essential to our business."
Mario Muñoz A., El Mercurio's IT Manager, commented; "We evaluated a number of solutions to address our need for high-volume web content publishing and found that RepliWeb best met our stringent performance and scalability requirements. RepliWeb easily integrated into our content management processes and helped us not only to accelerate content releases, but it allowed us to standardized deployment and replication methodologies. The overall improvements that were made to our IT processes and infrastructure upgrades allowed us to easily address the proliferation of World Cup content. Most importantly, RepliWeb provided superb support throughout our evaluation and implementation processes."
"Accelerating the time-to-market of revenue-essential content, digital assets and business-critical applications is essential in the real-time world that we operate in. RepliWeb Deployment not only helps revenue-driven organizations like El Mercurio to meet the most demanding real-time publishing metrics, it also reduces IT operations costs through automation and provides the means to standardize and centralize fragmented manual deployment steps," commented Yossi Moriel, CEO RepliWeb. "RepliWeb can be a business enabler helping to drive top line revenue growth, and it plays an important role in cost containment and risk mitigation. These issues are highly important to Corporate and IT management alike."
About RepliWeb Deployment
RepliWeb Deployment is a strategic software solution that helps organizations to streamline the deployment and replication of content, applications, code and web server components to physical and virtual servers located throughout distributed datacenter and IT operations. The product scales to meet the needs of IT organizations managing a few servers to hundreds of servers, providing reliable guaranteed delivery over high packet-loss and wireless networking infrastructures.
About RepliWeb, Inc.
RepliWeb develops application infrastructure software that governs and automates critical lifecycle management processes within SharePoint, Web, Application, and B2B Collaboration environments. Close to fifteen hundred organizations rely on RepliWeb to ensure information and application availability throughout distributed IT environments.
About El Mercurio
El Mercurio is one of Chile's leading and most influential publishing groups. Its flagship title, the daily of the same name, is the world's oldest Spanish language newspaper, still in circulation since 1827. Since its launch, the company has built up an extensive portfolio, including daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and magazines, as well as a news Web site. The group employs a total of 1,780 staff and in fiscal 2006 posted revenues of US$200 million.
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