New Customers, World-Record Performance Results and Sun Fire X4500 Offerings Build on Sun's x64 SuccessesSolaris 10 OS is Backbone of Sun Fire X4500 SAS Database Offering SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 19, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today made several announcements showcasing its momentum in the x64 (x86, 64-bit) industry, including new customers, world-record benchmarks, and offerings for the Sun Fire X4500 data server running on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Today's announcements build on the recent server market share numbers released by IDC, in which Sun demonstrated the highest year-to-year revenue market share gain and highest year-to-year revenue growth among the top six vendors in the worldwide x86 server market. (Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, February 2007)
"This last fiscal quarter was the 10th straight quarter where Sun had year-over-year growth in our x64 server shipments," said David Simmons, senior product line director for x64 products, Sun Microsystems. "We are continuing to build a relentless pace of technology enhancements and product innovation to keep us on the forefront of this highly competitive server landscape." Wide Range of Customers Deploy Sun's x64 Solutions A large number of organizations have recently deployed Sun's industry standard x64 servers in their datacenters, including Computer Sciences Corp., DigiTar, eHarmony, Joyent, National Stock Exchange, Peerflix, Princeton Plasma Laboratory, Smart Communications and UC San Diego. Customer quotes and more details on customer deployments can be found at: http://www.sun.com/x64/ Sun Fire X4500 and SAS Create Revolutionary Database Offering Sun supports the availability of the Sun Fire X4500 server paired with the SAS(R) Scalable Performance Data Server(R), resulting in the ultimate analytic data mart offering. The SAS Scalable Performance Data Server combined with the Sun Fire X4500 server offers incredible performance and integrates data from any source, making it an optimized solution for analytic processing and query and reporting. Ideal for analytics, business intelligence and data integration, this combined offering provides the value of powerful SAS software, high-performance AMD Opteron processors and the world-class performance and reliability of the Solaris 10 OS and Solaris ZFS. For more information, go to: http://www.sun.com/sas Sun Sets Multiple New World Records on Sun Fire Family of Servers
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