Sun Customer Success Stories Sun Customer Success Stories http://sun.com/customers/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:10:03 PST Copyright: (C) 1995-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Prince Edward Island Government Speeds Application Deployment and Cuts IT Costs Using Sun Virtual Server Solution To cut the cost of managing more than 500 physical servers, this Canadian province began migrating to a virtual environment based on the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System. The new solution reduces IT labor, and datacenter power, cooling, and space requirements and has cut deployment time for applications from several weeks to just days or sometimes minutes. http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/pei.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/pei.xml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST BSH Uses Sun Server and Storage Solution to Cut Annual Power Consumption by 59% After deciding to replace the outdated hardware underlying its business-critical SAP environment, a global manufacturer built a new platform based on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, Sun Blades, and Sun StorageTek systems — all running on the Solaris 10 OS. To date the new platform has cut the SAP environment’s energy usage by 59% and has increased server efficiency by 108%. http://www.sun.com/customers/software/bosch.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/software/bosch.xml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST Virtualization on Sun x86 Servers Cuts RLE Energy Costs by 70% An automotive engineering company consolidated an inefficient heterogeneous IT environment with a virtualization system based on two powerful Sun x86 servers running VMware ESX. It also deployed Sun StorageTek tape and SAN disk technologies for scalable data storage, archiving, and protection. The solution helped the company cut energy costs by 70% and achieve full ROI in 18 months. http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/rleusa.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/rleusa.xml Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT Contact Center’s Sun Thin Client Deployment Helps Screwfix Reduce Power Consumption by 75% and Calls By Contact Center Agents to the Help-Desk by 90% While Improving Employee Working Environment One of the U.K.’s leading providers of DIY and building materials replaced contact center PCs with Sun Virtual Display Clients. The new hardware is saving the business money by reducing power consumption by 75% and cutting back on the cost of maintenance and support. http://www.sun.com/customers/software/screwfix.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/software/screwfix.xml Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT City of San Antonio Consolidates Servers with Sun Virtualization Technology To cut costs and ease administration, a city government in Texas consolidated servers with a solution that includes Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers, Sun Fire X4600 M2 Servers, and Sun virtualization technology. As a result, the City has cut datacenter energy consumption by 15% and reduced its server footprint by more than 85% while increasing workload by 30%. http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/sanantonio.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/sanantonio.xml Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT Local Health Unit 11 Empoli Makes Employee Provisioning Quicker and Patient Data More Secure Using Sun Identity Manager Managing access to applications was time consuming and frustrating at this healthcare provider in Italy. By adopting Sun Identity Manager, the organization has changed the situation completely. Requesting access, recovering a forgotten password, and deactivating a user account are now automated and quicker. Furthermore, data is better protected, ensuring compliance with the law. http://www.sun.com/customers/software/usl11_empoli.xml http://www.sun.com/customers/software/usl11_empoli.xml Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT