Customers
Choose Sun: Web 2.0, Emerging Market Governments, Thin-Client
Environments
Learn how DigiTar, a Web 2.0 company providing
advanced messaging security and processing services, received Sun Fire™
T2000 and Sun Fire X4500 ("Thumper") servers as part of Sun's Try and
Buy Program and is using the OpenSolaris™ OS to further improve the
performance and efficiency of its IT environment. »
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Wotif.com, an online hotel-booking site, wanted to
rearchitect its infrastructure for better performance and scalability.
They selected Sun-based open-source products -- the GlassFish™
application server and Open Message Queue (based on the Sun Java™
System Message Queue product) -- and Sun support. »
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Leading online advertising firm Gorilla Nation
Media selected a MySQL Enterprise™ database subscription to help power
its business intelligence platform and support the exponential growth
of its business by improving performance and lowering costs. » Read more
Sun is expanding the global reach of its Sun xVM
VirtualBox™ platform with new multiyear original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer, and Zenith Infotech
Ltd. OEMs can leverage the power of Sun's open-source virtualization
solution to help deliver highly available, secure, and dynamic
virtualized offerings. » Read more
Bogotá Aqueduct and Sewer Company, a public
services water and sewer company in Colombia, implemented a storage
virtualization solution using the Sun
StorageTek™ 9985 system. The solution increased storage capacity,
accelerated data processing, simplified file management, and reduced
transaction backup time -- ensuring business continuity and customer
satisfaction. » Read
more
Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais, a
Brazilian climate change and weather forecasting organization,
leveraged a cluster of Sun servers that delivered enough computing
power to enable faster processing of complex climate analyses and more
accurate forecasts. It created the largest high-performance computing
environment in South America in the process. » Read
more
Chicago Public Schools, one of the largest public
school systems in the United States, is taking advantage of SunSM
Managed Services to manage and optimize its network. As a result,
systems are more secure and reliable, ensuring that student learning is
enriched through continuous access to online resources. » Read more
Denver Health choose Sun Ray™ thin clients as part
of an organization-wide implementation to improve user experience and
overall efficiency. The move has positively affected revenue and
increased energy savings. » Read more
Leading
Market Conversations: Open Source, Cloud Computing, OpenSolaris, Sun
Ray, Java CAPS, Partners
According to Sun Marketing Director Chong Soon
Cheong, "Businesses in this region [Malaysia] are beginning to
understand that open source and open standards in the computing
industry combine to create a rising tide that lifts all boats -- a
perspective that's increasingly borne out in the market." » Read more
"With its 'The Network is the Computer' mantra, Sun
provided much of the inspiration for the cloud computing movement. And
its Sun Grid Engine was one of the first on-demand cloud offerings,
providing access to compute and storage resources optimized for
parallel-processing applications." » Read more
"More than 600 new members have joined Sun's
OpenSolaris Storage community in the past three months, with the number
of projects increasing from 30 to 41 and revenues also showing an
increase over the same period." » Read more
"Sun Ray unit shipments are growing faster than the
thin-client industry at large, underscoring the increased appeal
thin-client and desktop virtualization solutions are experiencing among
businesses and organizations. Contributing to this growth is strong
market demand for Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software
2.0, which now ships on approximately 25% of Sun Ray units since being
introduced in March 2008." » Read more
"Both [Sun Chairman Scott] McNealy and [Mitel
Chairman Terry] Matthews extolled the virtues of convergence in a
thin-client environment, pointing out that enterprises can enjoy
substantial savings on the cost of energy and maintenance associated
with traditional desktop computer environments." Mitel and Sun add
unified communications to Sun's thin-client platform." » Read more
Sun announced a special offer to those adopting its
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) for SOA: Free
WebLogic adapters will be given to the first 20 qualified WebLogic or
Fusion customers who purchase Sun SOA products. "My overall impression
is that Sun has seized upon a legitimate market opportunity here,
stemming from the usual FUD surrounding the rationalization and
integration of two such daunting product portfolios (Oracle and BEA)
and more uniquely the purported price increase Oracle announced for
WebLogic in July," said Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current
Analysis. » Read more
As part of it's commitment to its partner-first
strategy, Sun announced enhancements to its Sun Partner Advantage
Program that will provide new resources to accelerate business growth
and momentum for channel partners in the United States. » Read more
Sun now offers customers a higher security standard
thanks to Sun Managed Operations sites in the Americas, Europe, and
Asia receiving the prestigious ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Security
Certification. » Read more
Product
Reviews Underscore Innovation: VirtualBox, Sun Fire, JavaFX,
OpenOffice.org
eWeek reviewed Sun xVM VirtualBox and concluded the
desktop virtualization software was a "full-featured, no-cost
alternative to VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop that's well
worth the consideration of software developers looking to test on
multiple platforms and of IT managers evaluating the strategic value of
desktop virtualization." » Read more
Sun won InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software
Awards 2008: MySQL™ took best database, [Sun xVM] VirtualBox was chosen
as the best desktop virtualization offering, and OpenOffice.org™,
called "the granddaddy of MS Office alternatives," was named best
productivity suite. » Read more
"The Sun Fire X2250 and X4250 machines are your
go-to units for a wide variety of jobs, including hardcore stuff like
HPC . . . or flimsy efforts like Web 2.0 work." »
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Martin MC Brown of Computerworld wrote about some
comparative performance testing he's completed on the Sun Fire X4150
server. "The box is very powerful for what is a single U high pizza
box. The eight cores and potential for up to 64 GB of RAM make this a
small powerhouse of computing, even before you include the storage that
you could fit into the same space." » Read more
InfoWorld's James Borck examined the JavaFX™
Preview software and reported, "There's a lot to like about the new
SDK. It's rich in capabilities, and its Java [technology]-like syntax
makes it a good springboard to RIAs for Java developers." » Read more
Alex Serpo of ZDNet Australia examined
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 software, giving the product an overall score of 8
out of 10 and bestowing the coveted Editors' Choice award. "It is
fantastic if you need basic office applications -- such as a word
processor or spreadsheet -- at no cost." » Read more
Sun announced a new record-breaking speed score for
its Sun Fire X4600 M2 server that "proves the X4600 M2 is 53 percent
faster than the Dell PowerEdge R900 and is capable of performing 75%
more Java business operations than the R905." » Read more
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