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Analyst Papers
NEW! Sun Solaris Container Technology vs. IBM LPARs and HP VPARs
Sun Solaris Container Technology vs. IBM Logical Partitions and HP Virtual Partitions by the Edison Group details the advantages of Solaris containers over competing technology from IBM and HP.
Forrester Research:Enterprise Consolidation TEI Study: Communications Group
Focuses on the benefits experienced by an integrated communication provider offering broad band services, enhanced data and communication management services to medium and large businesses. Through Sun's Enterprise Consolidation methodology and Sun products they: be poised for significant growth to handle surges in demand for it's services, regain control over the billing process, significant performance improvement with the benefits of dynamic resource allocation, and several other benefits.
University Hospitals Health Systems
University Hospitals Health Systems (UHHS) consolidated multiple disparate, legacy business systems into a single integrated business solution suite across entire organization - saving costs by introducing efficiency and automation to business operations. The single integrated suite avoids redundancy while providing data consistency and integrity.
Large Petroleum Company
Leading Energy Company Achieves Full ROI in One Year and $1.7 Million in Ongoing Annual Savings by Consolidating Sun's Servers and Storage
XM Satellite Radio
End-to-end data storage/management solution designed to consolidate the storage environment onto the self-managing storage area network [SAN]. Standardization on single hardware and database platform for UNIX apps, including Oracle - infrastructure includes Sun Enterprise and Sun Fire servers as well.
Nova Scotia Power, Inc.
Consolidates multiple Solaris servers onto Sun Fire line. Implementation of SAN for Sun Fire and other Servers. As the primary operating subsidiary of Halifax-based energy and services company Emera, Inc., Nova Scotia Power, Inc.(NSPI) serves Emera's 440,000 residential and business customers, currently generating 97 percent of the power Nova Scotians use. They worked with Sun on the implementation of a SAN for Sun Fire and other servers resulting in a 25% reduction in total cost of storage and
server ownership, no need to invest in direct-attach storage for every new server and easier, less costly storage management.
Southern Company
Single Starfire system and server consolidation initiatives replace multiple HP V-Class systems, providing improved performance and decreased costs.
SEB Vilniaus Bankas
SEB Vilniaus Bankas, a leading Eastern European bank, was looking to improve IT staff productivity, boost customer service, reduce costs, and introduce new banking services more quickly. The bank turned to Sun to help consolidate core banking applications from 60+ servers to just two Sun Fire 12K systems. In result, the bank gained competitive advantage by introducing new banking products more quickly, and also reduced platform costs and manpower requirements by 20 percent!
Banco Santander Santiago
Banco Santander Santiago, a Leading Latin American bank, reduces data center system administration costs by 50 percent and improves customer service delivery with Sun's enterprise consolidation solution.
Swedbank
Swedbank Consolidated CRM applications on one platform for single point access to customers and employees. Swedbank's goal was to transform their Internet banking and brokerage infrastructure and datacenter operations to support growth to more than 2 million visitors by 2003. They needed to unified CRM applications for employees and customers with the goal of reducing costs by moving customer transactions from traditional to online banking channels.
Tai Fook Securities
Tai Fook, one of Hong Kong's leading financial services companies, consolidated more than 100 multiprocessor Windows servers onto a single Sun Enterprise 10,000, thereby simplifying, mgmt, increasing reliability, and reducing TCO.
Ocwen Technology Exchange Consolidates onto Sun Fire 15k servers running Oracle and Progress databases with internally developed industry applications.
Ocwen Technology Exchange (OTX) is saving millions of dollars annually as a result of consolidating the applications that ran on many small systems onto a pair of Sun Fire 15K servers. By standardizing on Sun's Fire technology and the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, OTX avoids the costs of supporting redundant skills in the IT staff while saving substantially on maintenance, software licensing, support tools, personnel time, and floor space among other factors. The Sun Fire servers replaced
many small servers from Sun and IBM. Before selecting Sun Fire servers, OTX briefly considered the IBM Regatta and other options.
Province of Nova Scotia
Extending the Reach of Hosted SAP Systems on Sun Fire 15K Platform. The Province of Nova Scotia has standardized on one enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. It runs this system SAP R/3, on a clustered Sun Fire 15K server with Solaris 8 Operating System.
Informatica Comunidad De Madrid (ICM)
When ICM learned that its legacy Data General platform would no longer be supported after Data General was acquired, the organization capitalized on an opportunity to consolidate database servers and improve database performance. Working with Sun Services, ICM consolidated its Oracle databases on two Sun Fire 6800 servers and one Sun Fire 3800 server at its central data center. The following key benefits have been achieved:
New citizen services developed and implemented in short time to market
Reduced total cost of ownership for computing management
Currently sustaining high systems and database
City of Oakland
Migrates its financial applications and data from DEC Alpha 8400 server to a Sun Enterprise 10000 server. As a result, they're realizing, 30% reduction in TCO of payroll processing system, 50% faster payroll transaction processing time and enhanced employee productivity.
i2
i2 Technologies, Inc.: Consolidation Helps Leading Software Developer Complete Builds Twice as Fast While Reducing Data Center Costs. Success story discusing i2's consolidation from 13 Sun Enterprise 6500 servers to 6 Sun Fire 6800 servers.
Dow Corning
Services-driven SAP Data Migration and Consolidation on Solaris-based Sun StorEdge and Sun Fire Key Win at Dow Corning
Sybase, Inc.
Sun teams with Sybase to deploy business continuity solution to reduce costs and simplfy systems management.
Oracle
Oracle chose Sun to successfully execute one of the most ambitious consolidation programs on record. Leveraging its own cutting-edge technologies along with products and services from Sun, Oracle has consolidated its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from 70 database instances running on countless servers to just one global instance running on three clustered Sun Fire 12K servers.
Kyobo Book Centre
Kyobo Book Centre turned to Sun for help in enhancing profitability and reducing TCO through a server consolidation and SAN deployment to support its growing retail store and Internet sales.
Blue Shield of CA
Blue Shield of California's mixed product environment for its midrange server area presented business challenges in several areas - systems management, cost of ownership, and performance. Working together, Sun & EDS presented a joint solution that greatly reduced the number of servers while achieving measurable improvements in system performance.
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways has successfully migrated all its 90 Oracle-based databases from IBM Sequent systems to Sun Fire 6800 servers, and in the process consolidated these from nine servers to two. Now that the migrations from IBM Sequent SE30 and NUMA-Q7 ENTERPRISE servers have been completed successfully, Virgin Atlantic enjoys vastly improved performance, capacity, scalability and support from Oracle and third-party application developers - all at no increase in costs.
Howery Simon
An international law firm handling some of the largest antitrust, global litigation, and intellectual property practices in the world, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP has 11 offices in the U.S. and Europe, 500 attorneys worldwide, and generates $400 million in annual revenue. Howrey turned to Sun for an Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Consolidation in mid 2003. The Infrastructure Solution from Sun is helping Howrey to realize tangible results, including anticipated overall IT savings of
$2.87 million per year. This includes $848,000 in the first year. The legal services firm also estimates $2 million to $4 million in annual productivity loss avoidance due to system interruptions and other downtime. Deployed in a 6-week time to market, the new data center infrastructure helped improve system performance by an estimated 20 percent and drive system availability from 99.85 percent to more than 99 percent. The new storage environment is designed for rapid scale and is expected to
handle 50% growth in storage capacity by the end of 2004.
Guardian iT Group
Disaster recovery solution from E4000s to Enterprise 10000 server To meet the crucial need of disaster recovery plans, Guardian iT Group's Business Guardian division provides business continuity and disaster recovery services for a range of UNIX hardware and Sun processors make up the largest proportion of its backup equipment. Since July 1993, Guardian has been providing Sun Restart Services in partnership with Services, and the combination of its proven recovery procedures and Sun Service
support has proved highly successful.
PT. Excelcomindo Pratama (Excelcom)
Excelcom, a leading GSM dual-band telco operator in Indonesia, had too many server and storage systems in its data center and that they were increasingly difficult to manage. These and other performance issues with its existing IBM and Compaq servers prompted excelcom to consolidate up to 10 servers on just two high-performance Sun servers-a Sun Fire 6800 and a Sun Enterprise 10000 system. Both are supported by a single Sun StorEdge T3 array, and all three systems run the Solaris Operating
Environment. As the result of consolidation, excelcom has achieved its objectives of easier management, cost savings through enhanced performance, and reduced floor space for its data center.
British Telecom
DH Brown Analyst: BT Consolidates over 100 servers BT consolidated over 100 HP and Sun servers to six operational Sun Enterprise 10000s in order to decrease Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) and increase performance. Break-even financials were achieved in only 18 months. Major savings will be achieved during the life of the Sun Enterprise 10000. Failover improved from one hour to five minutes.
Virgin Mobile
Consolidated customer care and payment applications on Sun E10000s Virgin Mobile completed stage 1 of a major effort to upgrade and consolidate its IT infrastructure - replacing it's HP systems for Sun E10000s to house its customer care, payment and number management applications.
