Scalability

Autonomy-powered applications are amongst the largest intelligence and enterprise information systems in the world. Autonomy's product architecture has been designed since inception to be modular and multi-threaded in design and to support a multiplexed communication model, enabling the provision of a demonstrably high performance, high-capacity platform for content exploitation both today and in the future. Using replication and data-distribution Autonomy's infrastructure facilitates linear scalability and global distribution, is a completely scalable solution delivering high availability and unrivalled high performance.

Autonomy packages a scalable and platform-independent core technology within modular servers that can be built into a technical solution that scales to the needs of the application - whether the target system is a single PDA or a large, heterogeneous corporate network.

Autonomy's content infrastructure is supported by a suite of distribution modules that organize those servers to facilitate a wide range of enterprise scenarios with out of the box architectural configurations. The use of service abstraction ensures that Autonomy -powered business applications only need to be written once and can be used without modification, leaving the underlying architecture to dynamically grow and develop, automatically mirroring the data upon which it resides.

While Autonomy-powered systems are as diverse as the organizations that depend on them, key scalability requirements are shared by all large, business-critical applications.

Meeting the information explosion

As data increases, the Autonomy infrastructure can be scaled to meet rising demands. Data is automatically balanced across multiple servers providing administrators with the ability to match their enterprise's growing needs without degradation in performance.

Balancing the load

While the data load that businesses have to deal with increases, users also demand more. Fast access and stable services are becoming more and more important. The Autonomy infrastructure that serves users facilitates this load. Data is automatically replicated across multiple servers and user requests load-balanced across these replicas, guaranteeing performance, reducing latency and improving user experience.

Guaranteeing a service

When a critical application cannot be allowed to fail, Autonomy furthermore provides service fault-tolerance. Automatically generated replicas are used to provide a pool of servers, the primary resource is automatically selected, the system switches to secondary systems if it fails and service continues, uninterrupted.

Geo-efficiency

In addition, if your organization is geographically distributed, your Autonomy infrastructure will be too. Local replicas are automatically created and utilized where possible. Remote copies are only used when a local system fails, building fault tolerance, the benefits of local performance and a reduction of resource overhead into a single, seamless service.

Autonomy's technology is packaged in an architecture that scales linearly. As your needs grow, so does the system that satisfies them. Autonomy's experience with large-scale systems provides growth in performance without growth in complexity.