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Acquia, Inc

Acquia offers services and technical support for the Drupal content management system, helping organizations deploy and manage social publishing web sites.

“ Hybrid storage Sun servers are a great combination for enterprises who need to access high volume data faster. The Sun testing program helps us accelerate Drupal data delivery for customers to enhance the efficiency of their web infrastructure. ”
— Thomas Erickson, CEO, Acquia, Inc.
 

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Alfresco Software

Alfresco is the open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that includes Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration, Records Management and Image Management.

“ This is great news for Alfresco customers. Sun servers integrated with SSDs can dramatically improve application performance. This is perfectly aligned with Alfresco's vision for coupling the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. ”
— Martin Musierowicz, VP Alliances, Alfresco Software
 

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Clemson University

Clemson University is a vibrant academic community in Clemson, South Carolina. The university's research facilities include the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS), a high-performance computing center that serves multiple industries as well as government agencies and academia.

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“ We had a fixed amount of square footage, yet we wanted a significant increase in compute power. By using Sun Blade 6000 servers, we kept the square footage the same and went from 7 to 35 teraflops. ”
— Dr. James Leylek, Executive Director, Clemson University
 

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Core Services Corporation

Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, Core Services is a leading provider of consulting and outsourcing services for Oracle applications.

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“ By going with the Sun M-Series servers, we are able to meet our SLAs with faster, better, and smaller servers. We were able to increase our capacity and actually reduce our footprint and costs. ”
— Bimal Doshi, Vice President of Operations, Core Services Corporation
 

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Grupo Villar Mir

Grupo Villar Mir, headquartered in Madrid, is one of the largest Spanish conglomerates, with an international presence in 16 countries on 4 continents and business relations with 43 other countries. The company’s subsidiaries are in the construction, fertilizer and electric power generation businesses.

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“ With the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, we enjoy unparalleled response times, the highest ratios of security, performance and flexibility, and costs that are nearly 50 percent less than former platforms ”
— Carlos Lafitte, Advisor, IT Space (technology subsidiary of Grupo Villar Mir)
 

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HBO (Home Box Office)

A division of Time-Warner Entertainment Company, HBO now manages two 24-hour premium TV services (HBO and Cinemax) and revenues exceeding $3 billion annually, and airs more than 90 motion pictures each month.

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“ Sun's enterprise storage systems allow us to distribute content on a global scale while keeping costs at a minimum. Sun offers a truly exceptional high-quality solution that increases efficiencies and allows for the continuing reliability of our business-critical distribution. ”
— Charles Cataldo, Senior Vice President, Broadcast and Studio Operations, HBO
 

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IT Discovery

IT Discovery (www.it-discovery.com) leverages the social network and machine learning in the service of information retrieval. By deconstructing a large document collection into its constituent parts, IT Discovery provides real technology leverage for both linear and non-linear, strategic document review.



“ Our high-performance search platform puts tremendous pressure on our data center. With the Sun Storage J4400 array, we can place 24—or even 48—drives in a single chassis. We can link them to a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server for massive parallel processing. We have two-to-four times fewer disk arrays to manage, and we can manage them with Solaris ZFS. And not once has I/0 been an issue. In short, the J4400 has been simply stunning. ”
— Jason Bond Pratt, CIO, IT.com
 

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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg based in Stuttgart, Germany, is an international bank that, together with its regional retail subsidiaries, offers a range of financial services to personal and commercial business customers.

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“ With CMT technology, Sun servers offer exceptional performance at a low price. In view of today's rising electricity prices, we are really happy about this benefit. ”
— Michael Riedel, Team Lead, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
 

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Max Planck Institute

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) investigates the history of humankind. To reach their findings, its 411 employees use comparative analyses of different genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages, and social systems of past and present human populations, as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.

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“ We were won over by the combination of the Sun StorageTek 6540 array technology, the price/performance ratio, and the dedication of the company. ”
— Michael Gasch, System Administrator, Max Planck Institute
 

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Outspark

Outspark is a growing entertainment services company that publishes and operates a number of online multiplayer social games which are used by millions of players around the world every year.

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“ Performance is much stronger with the quad-core Sun Fire X2250 servers, and we push much more traffic through the network, so whatever increase in traffic we get now, our infrastructure can handle it easily. So far, we are at more than 98% uptime with the new infrastructure. ”
— Luc Suryo,Chief of Network and System Operations, Outspark
 

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RTL France

RTL France is the flagship radio broadcaster which owns some of the country's most popular radio stations. It belongs to the RTL Group, a leading European entertainment network with revenues of €5.7 billion in 2008.

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“ The Sun servers were chosen based on their reliable, cost-effective, leading-edge technology. ”
— Sébastien Thomas, network and system manager at RTL France
 

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Sun Direct TV Private Limited

Sun Direct TV Private is part of the SunTV Network, based in Chennai, India. SunTV Network is India's second-largest television network, with 22 channels. It also has 13 FM radio stations, two daily newspapers, and four magazines in multiple Indian languages. SunTV has posted annual revenues of approximately 4 billion USD.

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“ The performance, scalability, availability, and productivity of the Sun Microsystems solution gives us a foundation that we can use for years to come, and we expect considerable savings on hardware and energy costs. ”
— Tony D'Silva, Chief Operating Officer, Sun Direct TV
 

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Symeos

Symeos, based in France, is an IT startup which specializes in Web services security and provides online identity management and federated authentication services.

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“ Thanks to Sun technology, we are continuing to bring innovative identity management solutions to market and driving growth. ”
— Herve Prot, CEO, Symeos
 

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University of Washington

The University of Washington is a Seattle-based large public research university with more than 40,000 students and 140 departments, including a renowned mathematics department.

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“ Our previous infrastructure was fine, but the entire thing was only about one-third the capacity of a single Sun X4450 server. I regularly set up computations that use the whole power of the machine at once, using parallel computing techniques, and I wouldn't have been able to do that before. ”
— William Stein, Associate Professor of Mathematics
 

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Valparaiso University

Valparaiso University located in Valparaiso, Indiana, is consistently rated among the top 100 universities in the midwest. With the student population of 4,000, it boasts five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, and a law school.

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“ The PCs we had traditionally deployed across campus were always problematic. They were fairly expensive to acquire and maintenance costs were always very high because the IT team to fix them on an ongoing basis. With the Sun Rays, we have eliminated virtually all of those issues. ”
— Simon Kissler, Senior Systems Administrator, Valparaiso University
 

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