High-performance and future-proof

pirobase is scaling linearly
Demanding and expanding companies benefit from the intelligent system
architecture design of pirobase. The solution offers linear scaling, adapts
flexibly to the growing requirements of a company and guarantees consistent
performance. This offers investment security and cost transparency. Because
the scaling is linear, performance with increasing load can be realised easily
via hardware expansion and with no interventions in the system architecture.
This ensures that future requirements on the system can be calculated easily, and
offers the highest possible planning security.
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Scalability pays off
pirobase guarantees steady performance, even under increasing loads. That is because scalability is the centre and the pivotal point - and that is precisely how it pays off. As a leading content management service provider we have, of course, substantiated this fact with concrete figures. What do you get from this? Proof that by using pirobase you are choosing a cost-efficient content management system that offers impressive planning security.

The test shows: pirobase does linear scaling, even under the highest access loads beyond any realistic scenario. The system will therefore offer unlimited possibilities to companies with a large number of employees handling large volumes of information, enabling them to meet increasing demands. This is how your website will be sure to help you reach even your most ambitious performance goals. Regardless of the increase in the volume of data traffic, pirobase keeps pace. The result is complete investment security with unlimited growth options.
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Your benefits thanks to scalability

Powerful and reliable

pirobase guarantees continuous performance – even under increasing loads. It is therefore able to run without loss of performance even as data volumes and user numbers increase. The workload that can be managed by our highly scalable system runs linear to the volume of resources required. pirobase can therefore remain consistently stable while responding to twice the number of requests per time unit with twice the resources, for example.

Efficient and cost-effective

A linearly scalable system not only offers consistently stable performance under extremely high access and user numbers but also has considerable economic advantages. All cost factors can be accurately planned and optimised from the hardware to the software and the maintenance and service costs. This ensures that the investment framework is lean and concise from the beginning.

Calculable and reliable

pirobase makes the linear scalability of capacity and performance possible. This creates a system with unlimited scalability which is rendered suitable for large-scale, complex tasks by its program structure and is designed to be constantly expandable. This allows our system to offer unlimited options to meet even increased future demands.
You can download the pirobase CMS flyer here.

  • 'pirobase allows Imperia AG to offer a highly scalable enterprise content management system, the architecture of which is suitable for large-scale, complex tasks and designed for constant expansion.'

    Jörn Kaller, ISV Solution Sales Retail / CPG & Business Development, IBM

  • 'A highly scalable ECMS not only offers consistently stable performance, but also allows for optimal cost calculations, as the acquisition costs of software and hardware and all aspects related to the utilisation thereof are known in advance.'

    Christian Batz, Board, Imperia AG

  • 'The subject of scaling was already part of our system planning. When making major architectural decisions, it takes a great deal of care to avoid bottlenecks that pose an obstacle to optimal scaling.'

    Martin Janssen, Director Product Development, Imperia AG

Why scaling?

A definition

The term 'scalability' describes how well a system can process increasing work loads by adding hardware resources. In an ideal case, the workload managed by a scalable system will increase linearly with the volume of resources available. Twice the resources therefore means twice the performance.

Vertical versus horizontal scalability

Vertical scaling is an expansion of the hardware of a system to increase performance by adding components such as memory or additional CPUs. Horizontal scalability means that new nodes are added to the existing nodes to increase performance. A node is a linking point for transfer routes within a network. The individual nodes are clustered to form a single unit. Each node works independently, but remains in constant communication with the other nodes.

Performance under load

To prove the scalability of pirobase, we looked for a strong partner. Our system was subject to a load test lasting several weeks at the IBM Innovation Center. During the course of this process, we verified scalability in various test series. Our system was subjected to extremely high loads by constantly increasing the number of website users and authors every second - the results speak for themselves.

Hardware for the load test

The database (Oracle) functions on an LPar with 64 GB main memory and four cores on Power7 running AIX. An LPar with 64 GB permanently allocated main memory was available for the WebSphere application server on the same Power7 under AIS in which the pirobase CMS® was deployed. During vertical scaling, the number of allocated cores varied from one to 16 cores. Blades that were each equipped with an Intel Dual QuadCore processor with activated hyperthreading were used for horizontal scaling. The pirobase® CMS instances installed under Linux were configured as clusters addressed via a software load balancer.

Want to know how our architecture can be scaled? Please click here:

pirobase architecture

Do you have any questions about scalability?

Your contact person

Martin Janssen
Director Product Development
Tel: +49 2203 93530 2100
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