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Whether it's running lightening fast simulations, protecting national security, offering new wireless and broadband services, or processing online transactions, Sun delivers the solutions to help you attain your goals. Here are just a few of the companies that rely on Sun technology.

SKY Perfect

SKY Perfect Communications Inc. is Japan's leading provider of satellite television. Established in 1994, SKY Perfect Communications has more than four million subscribers. SKY Perfect Communications installed a Sun StorageTek modular library system to archive digital clips, and enhance the availability of its content and services.

Moodlerooms

Education institutions and Fortune 500 companies alike can use Moodlerooms to host course content built on Moodle software, an open source Web-based learning management system. With half a million hosted students and more than 500 customers worldwide, Moodlerooms is the largest service provider in the Moodle Partner Network. Moodlerooms built a datacenter based on Sun Fire servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System. The company uses its Sun infrastructure to deliver Moodle, an open source Web-based learning system to a global education community.

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks operates under the U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). Located on the campus of the Arctic university of the United States, ARSC is a research leader in supporting scientific analysis and discovery of Polar Regions with state-of-the-art technology and high-performance computational resources. Sun delivered a factory-built high-performance computing (HPC) cluster solution built around Sun Fire X2200 M2 and Sun Fire X4600 servers racked, stacked, cabled and tested, providing a completely integrated hardware solution with very competitive performance.

Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany

As part of an eGovernment Initiative called BundOnline 2005, Germany wanted to automate tariff and local customs handling processes that affect both customs clearance at border checkpoints and processing at customs offices. It needed to replace a paper-based system, so the German Center for Information Processing and Information Technology of the Federal Ministry of Finance (ZIVIT) collaborated to create an automated system called ATLAS. This German government agency, in support of an overall eGovernment initiative, created a new highly available three-tier system to automate customs clearance based on Sun servers and storage systems.

Savings and Credit Bank Kuwait

Savings and Credit Bank Kuwait (SCB), established in 1960, is a public corporation with independent status. It operates under the supervision of the Minister of Housing. The bank provides loans to Kuwaiti citizens for land, agriculture, and industry; offers credit to qualified state employees; and promotes the value of savings to Kuwaiti citizens. SCB deployed a high-availability Sun server and storage area network architecture that offers advanced replication, backup and recovery capabilities, and a thin-client solution that can expand as SCB's business grows.

NYU Medical Center

New York University (NYU) Medical Center, comprised of Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine, the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases and the NYU School of Medicine, is one of the premier centers of excellence in healthcare, research and medical education in the world. The Sun StorageTek information lifecycle management (ILM) storage infrastructure solution allowed NYU to improve the performance of a critical digital diagnostic tool, and helped the center consolidate disparate networks, thus significantly enhancing network performance. Sun also helped the center safeguard data by creating a tier 3 storage system and moving tier 3 data offsite to provide disaster recovery capabilities.

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