摘要:
This article reports that payment clearing house Voca Corp. is preparing its information technology systems to handle up to 100 million transactions a day from next month. Voca's existing Fujitsu mainframe handled a peak load of 75 million transactions in one day during September 2005, but from next month the system will have to cope with a spike in processing caused by the transfer of winter fuel payments direct to pensioners' bank accounts. The clearing house in England is pushing ahead with a programme to replace its mainframe with a Unix-powered payment system, which uses Sun E15000 servers. The system has been developed in Java using the BEA Weblogic 8.0 application server running on an Oracle 9i database. Chris Dunne, commercial business manager at Voca, said although the mainframe will be used initially to handle winter fuel payments, the company recognised the longer-term need to upgrade its systems. Dunne will start passing reference data to the new system this month and begin parallel running with the mainframe by the end of the year.