TALX Corporation Boosts System Availability and Scalability with Oracle(r) Real Application Clusters

To manage and monitor its clustered environment, TALX relies on Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g has replaced TALX's custom-built management tools and scripts for monitoring tablespaces, alert log mining and administrator paging, among other tasks. TALX also implemented Oracle Automatic Storage Management, a database volume manager and file system optimized for database access which automates and streamlines performance and storage management for related systems.

Looking into the future, the current plan is for TALX to deploy another cluster at its secondary data center and utilize Oracle Streams to replicate data between its two clustered environments. The company also anticipates increasing reliance on Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), a feature of Oracle Database that enables efficient access to .NET applications. ODP.NET will also enable TALX developers to further exploit the unique performance, reliability, scalability and security capabilities of Oracle Database including Transparent Application Failover and Fast Application Notification.

"We achieved the goals we set with regards to our clustered environment," said Bryan Garcia, vice president of Technology, TALX Corporation. "This implementation was very successful. We improved the fault-tolerance of key applications and services and we've taken advantage of the scalability delivered by Oracle Real Application Clusters on a 64-bit platform to deliver enhanced performance."

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About TALX
TALX, an Equifax business, is based in St. Louis, Missouri. TALX is a leading provider of human resources and payroll-related services and holds a leadership position in automated employment and income verification. TALX provides over 9,000 clients, including three-fourths of Fortune 500 companies, with Web-based services focused in three employment-related areas: hiring, pay reporting, and compliance. Hiring services include assessments and talent acquisition, onboarding, and tax credits and incentives. Pay reporting services include electronic time tracking, paperless pay, and W-2 management. Compliance services include employment and income verifications through The Work Number, unemployment tax management, and I-9 management. For more information about TALX, access the TALX Website at http://www.talx.com.

About Oracle
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