Scalability

Scalability is a key requirement for the corporate content infrastructure, which is tasked with managing unstructured corporate content assets for content applications across the enterprise. A scalable infrastructure can handle high volumes of content and fulfill higher performance requirements. Scalability requirements therefore apply to all components of the content infrastructure including the content repository, content services, and applications that leverage the content.

EMC Documentum architecture

EMC Documentum provides a completely scalable content infrastructure, developed as a result of years of technology leadership within the most demanding customer environments. EMC Documentum architecture can easily handle the high volume of transactions typically seen in business process management applications. In addition, EMC Documentum architecture efficiently manages the huge number of objects encountered in applications managing XML components as well as enormous rich media objects used in digital assets management. The object-oriented architecture of the EMC Documentum repository enables it to handle any type of content in virtually unlimited capacity. Currently, EMC Documentum customers are running repositories with billions of objects that account for hundreds of terabytes of data.

EMC Documentum repository

As befits a true enterprise content management system, EMC Documentum's repository can be deployed in a variety of ways to support high scalability requirements. For instance, multiple EMC Documentum repositories can be set up to be serviced by a single Content Server or multiple Content Servers can be set up to service a single repository (or multiple repositories). Additionally, EMC Documentum allows the content repository to be deployed with a distributed architecture, bringing content closer to users without giving up content consistency and a central point of management. By leveraging EMC Documentum's replication technology, content can be replicated between multiple physical repositories. As a result, the federated repository concept supported by EMC Documentum allows enterprises to treat a set of repositories as a single entity, thus significantly lowering administration efforts and increasing ease of use for end users.

Scalable content services

Another essential component of EMC Documentum's scalability is that the content services provided by the EMC Documentum Content Server and other add-on products are also scalable. In fact, the Content Server was designed with scalability in mind, providing support for both vertical and horizontal scalability. Through vertical scalability, EMC Documentum users can take advantage of multi-processor server systems. For instance, EMC Documentum has repeatedly demonstrated that performance can be constantly raised by adding CPU capacity in a server system. Additionally, EMC Documentum customers can take advantage of EMC Documentum's horizontal scalability by leveraging the combined performance of multiple server systems running EMC Documentum software in a cluster.

Application server infrastructure

EMC Documentum also provides a highly scalable solution for content applications that use EMC Documentum's repository and content services. EMC Documentum fully embraces the application server infrastructure based on J2EE or Microsoft's COM/.NET. By efficiently managing their application servers, EMC Documentum customers can take advantage of their scalability, load balancing, clustering, and other capabilities provided by the application server infrastructure. Whatever requirements you may have for your corporate content infrastructure, EMC Documentum can help ensure you achieve true scalability.