Meeting Wikipedia's Traffic Demands
 Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia and flagship project of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, is one of the top 5 most-visited Web sites in the world. With more than 11 million articles written in 265 different languages and hosted across more than 300 servers, Wikipedia is hit with anywhere from 25,000 to 60,000 page requests every second, all day long.
When Wikimedia needed to expand its storage capacity to handle this huge volume of traffic, ensure its systems are reliable, highly available, and scaleable, and can accommodate rich media requirements, it turned to Sun's Startup Essentials program. The program enabled Wikimedia to supplement its existing Linux-based cluster systems with a Sun Open Storage solution that includes Sun Fire X4150 and Sun Fire X4250 x64 servers that run the Solaris 10 OS with the Solaris ZFS File System. Wikipedia is built on Sun's MySQL database, and so the new servers also run MySQL.
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Increasing Capacity for SmugMug
In 2002, father-son duo Chris and Don MacAskill founded SmugMug to create a photo-sharing Web site that lets people see their photos as large, high-resolution images uncluttered with ads. To support the growing number of images and videos entrusted to their site, and to provide speedy access to their customers, SmugMug sought an affordable, high-capacity server that is backed with strong tech support.
After a trial with Sun's Try and Buy program, SmugMug chose the Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server for its reliability and speed. SmugMug likes the X2200 M2 also because it lets them standardize Web servers, rendering boxes, and the database on a single component.
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SmugMug's CEO Talks Challenges
CEO and co-founder Don MacAskill talks about becoming a Sun customer through the Try and Buy program and the challenges Sun's technology is helping SmugMug meet.
Internet Brands Unifies With Solaris 10 Operating System
More than 45 niche online communities and e-commerce sites that are focused on consumer purchases reside under the Internet Brands, Inc. umbrella. CarsDirect.com, one of the company's top merchants, determined that it needed enterprise-class support and decided to migrate all of its operating systems from Linux to Sun's Solaris 10 OS on the x86 platform.
That was so successful that the rest of Internet Brands' sites quickly followed suit. By using the rich features in Solaris OS, Internet Brands can handle 20 times the number of concurrent users on the same hardware, has eliminated 20 servers through virtualization with Solaris Containers, and automated services monitoring with Predictive Self Healing. Besides all that, the company gained efficiency by standardizing on one OS.
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From servers and storage to Solaris, MySQL and GlassFish, the top Web sites people visit every day are powered by Sun products.
A Soup-to-Nuts Solution for eBay
 Online pioneer eBay, Inc. brings together millions of local, national, and international buyers and sellers every day within its eBay marketplace Web sites as well as in PayPal, Skype, Rent.com, and Shopping.com. This e-commerce giant chose Sun solutions, including servers, software, storage and services,. for its search and database infrastructures.
For its search farm, eBay has deployed more than 1,400 Sun Fire X4100 M2 servers, and for its database farm, it installed Sun Fire T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. To handle the more than 100 million items listed daily for auction, eBay has deployed the Sun StorageTek 9990 storage system plus L700 tape libraries. In addition, eBay's developers program exclusively in Java, and Sun Managed Services provides 24/7 responsiveness for the database and search tiers in the datacenter.
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Hosting the Olympics with NBC
U.S. broadcast network NBC provides real-time sporting event feeds, news coverage, and other dynamic content of the Olympics every two years via NBCOlympics.com. The high-capacity site was established with Sun technologies to cover the 2008 Summer Games, when it supported 17 days of live event coverage, 2,000 hours of streaming video, and 34 Olympic sport homepages. In addition, NBCOlympics.com is already set up for the upcoming 2010 Winter Games.
Because NBC requires a reliable and high-capacity hosting infrastructure that can handle millions of daily visits and large traffic spikes, it chose a combination of 160 Sun Fire X4150 and Sun Fire X4450 servers. Both run on Intel quad-core Xeon processors, which enable better performance and energy efficiency in compact form factors.
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Talking about NBCOlympics.com
In this podcast, Dan Hogan, VP of Technology for NBC Sports and Olympics, explains how Sun Fire servers and Sun Services power the NBC Olympics Web site. Listen now
Betfair Puts the Odds on Sun Servers and Software
 Betfair is an online betting exchange based in the U.K. that lets sports fans choose their odds and bet against each other. Betfair processes five million transactions each day from customers who deposit almost $2,000 on the site every minute.
This site can withstand zero downtime and requires lightening fast response times to support betting during events, and so Betfair has always relied on Sun servers and storage technology. The platform solution includes multiple racks of Sun Fire X4100 M2 Web servers, Sun Fire T2000 gateway servers running the Solaris 10 OS, Sun Fire E6900 database servers, and Sun StorageTek 9985 disk systems.
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