Torrent Ports Orchestrate to Compaq's Next Generation Alpha Servers: Enabling Scalable Business Intelligence Solutions for Internet and Data Warehousing Environments

Business Wire, May 16, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000

Torrent's Orchestrate and Compaq's AlphaServer GS Series Enable

Sophisticated Customer Analysis of Unprecedented Data Volumes for

Greater Profitability; Compaq Adds Torrent to the Compaq Solutions

Alliance (CSA)

Torrent Systems, Inc., the first provider of scalable solutions for processing and analyzing massive volumes of clickstream and transaction data, today announced the company ports Orchestrate(TM) to the newly released Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) AlphaServer GS Series systems. Compaq customers using Orchestrate will be able to automatically process and analyze scalable high volumes of data for strategic eBusiness intelligence solutions for mission-critical Internet and data warehousing applications.

With the growing onslaught of clickstream and transaction data volumes, the combination of Compaq's next generation AlphaServer SMP clusters with Tru64 UNIX and Torrent's Orchestrate's unique parallel infrastructure and highly-scalable, analytic solutions let users create the best engine for NonStop(TM) eBusiness computing environments for the most demanding applications and challenging business issues. By enabling users to discover previously unknown and valuable customer information, they can gain 10's and even 100's of millions of dollars in ROI.

"Being able to make better decisions using massive volumes of data immediately," states Tom Ebling, President and CEO, Torrent Systems, "is a necessity in our dynamic and competitive business environment. Understanding customer data on an evolving and continuous basis is critical to a company's strategy and growth. We view the Compaq AlphaServer GS Series as the best engine for Torrent's Orchestrate business intelligence solution on Tru64 UNIX because it presents users with a flexible and powerful system that enables valuable customer insights that were previously thought to be unattainable and ultimately leads to greater profitability."

"Compaq is dedicated to offering customers the best NonStop(TM) eBusiness solutions for managing the growth of their most demanding applications in new and innovative ways," said Tim Yeaton, Vice President, UNIX Systems Business Unit, Compaq Computer Corporation. "With Torrent's Orchestrate product and Compaq's Tru64 UNIX environment, we are able to exploit the power of the AlphaServer GS Series machines by delivering instant click-stream data analysis for our global eCommerce customers."

Torrent, a new member the Compaq Solutions Alliance (CSA), enables Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions on the Compaq AlphaServer GS Series that allow users to create high-performance, flexible applications that can manage their growth, however explosive, for unprecedented business results. Torrent's Orchestrate software utilizes the Compaq AlphaServer GS Series' proven leadership and ability to manage massive amounts of data and support customer requirements for input, storage and inquiry, to avoid the bottlenecks that most business intelligence applications experience because they can only run on one processor at a time. The Torrent Orchestrate and Compaq AlphaServer GS Series solution environment is highly scaleable and accommodates for growth and varying traffic patterns while offering the fastest computing environment in the industry.

About Torrent Systems, Inc.

Torrent Systems' Orchestrate makes it possible for Internet and brick-and-mortar enterprises to build, deploy, and manage applications that process and analyze massive volumes of transaction and clickstream data. Based on an innovative parallel processing technology, Orchestrate enables enterprises to solve business problems once considered impossible and realize 10's--even 100's--of millions of dollars in return on investment by processing unprecedented volumes of data with unrestricted analytical complexity. Because of this, Orchestrate now provides the technology infrastructure that makes possible some of the most strategically valuable applications in the world.