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CommunicationsMonmouth Independence Network
“By using Sun technologies, we've been able to realize a full 25% savings on power, cooling, and space requirements.”
— Phil Garrett, General Manager, MINET
Tele AtlasIncreasing demand for richer digital mapping and data services prompted Tele Atlas to develop a long-term IT strategy. By standardizing on Sun servers the company has future-proofed the data centre for the years ahead.
“With the Sun Blade 8000 modular system, we can create a flexible and scaleable data centre, while at the same time tackling our energy costs.”
— Chris De Backer, Vice President IT, Tele Atlas
EducationClemson UniversityClemson University implemented a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that includes blade servers, storage systems, software, and services from Sun Microsystems. It chose a factory-integrated solution for faster deployment.
“The Sun Blade servers were chosen for their efficient design as well as for performance and reliability. “They are compact and provide incredible compute power for their footprint.” 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 Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS)
Jülich Supercomputing CentreJülich Supercomputing Centre provides high performance computing for scientists and researchers throughout Europe with the Sun Constellation System.
Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KISTI)
“In the near future, we expect tremendous scalability from the compute nodes and the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456 and follow on generations. We are also optimistic about the future of Sun x64 servers because Sun has a versatile road map for both blade and rack servers for HPC. Furthermore, Sun is only company that has a complete HPC portfolio, from hardware to software.”
— Sik Lee, Ph.D., Team Leader, Supercomputing Applications Team, KISTI
SAP University Competence Center
“After an operating period of two years, we can confirm that virtualization goes hand in hand with consolidation. We need less physical hardware and less energy than before, and we continue to use an environment with a stable response and good performance.”
— Dr. Holger Wittges, Executive Director at SAP UCC, Technical University of Munich
Sandia
Texas Advanced Computing CenterTACC collaborated with Sun, other universities, and the open-source community to build and support an HPC system with a $59 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Built on Sun technologies and an open-source software stack, the HPC system (called Ranger) includes 3,936 nodes that contain 123 TB of memory and has a peak speed of 579.4 teraflops.
“Combined with the four-socket Sun Blade server modules, we could put together a Linux-based, x86-instruction-set architecture that could fit in our datacenter, could scale up to deliver staggering computational power, and could house a huge amount of aggregate memory.”
— Jay Boisseau, Director, TACC
United Arab Emirates UniversityThe CIT’s solution is built on 10 Sun Blade 6000 Chassis, each with a mix of 10 Sun Blade X6220 and X6250 server modules. Collectively, the 100 server modules deliver 800 GB of RAM and can reach speeds up to 8.3 Teraflops.
“Sun Microsystems’ leadership in grid/cloud computing together with its historically strong commitment to academe is a powerful combination that will bring lasting value to the College of IT. The grid computing laboratory will provide students, faculty and the community an exciting and dynamic environment to design and implement efficient solutions in service of society.”
— Dr. Rafic Makki, Dean, College of IT, United Arab Emirates University
Western Governors UniversityWGU deployed Sun Blade 6000 Chassis, Sun Blade 6000series server modules, the Solaris 10 Operating System, and Solaris Containers and third-party virtualization technologies to maximize its server resources while minimizing IT investment costs. With low CPU utilization and plenty of slot space to grow, the system will accommodate the university’s expanding services and student body.
“For an online institution, there’s nothing worse than system downtime. The consistent 24x7 reliability of our Sun Blade solution is what lets people like me sleep at night, and that’s a marvelous thing.”
— Dave Wilson, Chief Technology Officer, Western Governors University
EnergyPubliacqua
“We are very pleased with the results and the extremely high level of support and technical assistance made available to us. Sun acted immediately to resolve even the smallest problem, demonstrating a level of commitment that in many cases has exceeded contractual obligations.”
— Luciano Caroti, ICT Manager, Publiacqua
Financial ServicesRetail DecisionsRetail Decisions upgraded its sophisticated real-time card authorization processing, data analysis and modeling systems to include Sun Fire V490 and X4500 servers, a Sun Blade 6000 chassis with Sun Blade X6220 and T6300 server modules and Sun StorageTek 6540 and 6140 arrays. Sun Professional Services and Sun partner Continental Resources assisted with platform implementation.
“Using the Sun Blade 6000, 1 10-unit rack now replaces 10 2-unit racks and still has half of its chassis available.” “And both of our Sun Blade racks together need only 4 power connections, versus 22 we would need for separate servers. This is important as we continue to maximize opportunities and grow our customer base.”
— Christopher J. Uriarte, Chief Technology Officer, Retail Decisions Merchant Services Division
GovernmentCity of San AntonioThe City of San Antonio, Texas, which has 12,000 employees and is home to more than 1.5 million people, replaced legacy servers with the Sun servers, including the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System.
“Sun's enterprise-class virtualization technologies have served the City of San Antonio well. They're a critical component of our overall IT transformation and optimization strategy, allowing us to rapidly deploy highly available server capacity to meet the City's changing business needs while saving money in the process.”
— Kevin Goodwin, Assistant Director, City of San Antonio Information Technology Services Department
ManufacturingSony CanadaIn April 2008, consultants from Sun and SAP worked with IT employees from Sony Canada to deploy the new solution in three days. Sun engineers from the Sun Solution Center for SAP Competency installed and configured eight Sun Blade X6250 server modules with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors in a Sun Blade 6000 Chassis and installed one Sun StorageTek 6140 array.
“One of Sun's strengths is that it partners closely with SAP to implement SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Based on our assessment, the SAP consultants at Sun seemed to be the most knowledgeable about BIA.”
— Wayne Ground, Chief Information Officer, Sony Canada
Tessenderlo Group
“Sun offered us the responsiveness and flexibility to customize a solution to meet our needs. Pricing was important too, and the total cost of ownership will be very affordable, but Sun’s expertise and quality of the service really made the difference.”
— Joost Rommelaere, Chief Information Officer, Tessenderlo Group
Media and EntertainmentBlue Sky StudiosBlue Sky Studios is a leader in the field of computer-generated imagery for feature films and television, and created high-resolution computer-generated character animation for movies such as Ice Age and Robots.
“In evaluating technology partners for a rendering solution, the focus was clearly on price/performance. The return on investment is allowing our artists and technology directors to use the hardware to the best of their abilities, and be more creative. With Sun and Intel technology, we'll continue to make beautiful films, but with that much more visual representation.”
— Brian Keane, Chief Operating Officer, Blue Sky Studios
Last.fm
“The Sun Blade T6320 server modules with their UltraSPARC T2 processor technology could reduce the energy consumption on our Web-server pool by 40%.”
— Mike Brodbelt, Director of Technical Operations and Infrastructure, Last.fm
RetailScrewfix
“In addition to cutting our electricity bill and freeing up at least one person to work more proactively in our IT team, we've provided improved working conditions for employees, who now have more space and no longer have to contend with the heat generated by a PC.”
— Simon Trowbridge, Technical Projects Manager, Screwfix
TechnologyDLR CasePetascale architecture is the world's first cluster architecture that achieves computing performance of more than two petaflops/sec (two quadrillion floating-point operations per second). Blade servers equipped with UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processors are used as computer nodes in the Sun Constellation System. These servers are housed in the Sun Blade 6048.
“What was important to us was that we were able to markedly increase the number of processor cores in use. To date, we have been using on average 100 to 500 cores simultaneously, but we are hoping to gradually increase this figure to as much as 6,000. ”
— Prof. Dr. Norbert Kroll, head of the Numerical Aerodynamics Branch of the Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and head of the C2A2S2E project
MapionMapion Co., Ltd, Japan's leading provider of online map services, offers the Mapion online maps, navigation tools and directions delivered to users' mobile phones.
“Switching the application server to GlassFish has resulted in a substantial reduction in the operational management workload. It offers easy-to-use functions which are indispensable in day-to-day operations, including batch deployment to multiple application servers.”
— Mr. Yukio Hasegawa, Operational Technology Group, Mapion Technology Development Department
Merkl IT
“The Sun infrastructure allows us to operate the cloud-computing
solution in an energy-efficient and stable manner, saving our customers
money and helping the environment.”
— Julian Merkl, Cofounder and Managing Director, Merkl IT
Navisite, Inc.
“We are really excited about the Sun Blade platform running VMware. It allows us to offer added value to our customers and keep our administration costs low. The use of Sun in our virtualization platform not only allows us to continue to provide a flexible and scalable platform, but does so at a competitive price. And even more importantly, it allows us to expand our support of additional operating system environments–something we don’t believe other service providers can say.”
— Denis Martin, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, NaviSite, Inc.
SymeosWorking with Sun, Symeos developed a new virtualized platform for an identity management solution called EGO. At the heart of the infrastructure are Sun blade servers, some featuring the latest UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and Sun Open Storage solutions. By choosing Sun hardware and software, the company now has a cost-effective, fast, and highly scalable platform to support 10 million users. Tikona Digital Networks (TDN)
“Doing business in a global marketplace means the technology infrastructure must be scalable and robust enough in order to make better decisions, compete effectively, and lower operating costs. We are extremely happy to have Sun Microsystems as our technology infrastructure partner. The decision to run Oracle as a critical solution component on Sun Blade T6320 server modules was to optimize performance and save costs. Once fully implemented, we expect to save almost 50% percent of the space that rack-mount servers use and 40% percent of operating costs in terms of power and cooling.”
— Tarun Kumar, CTO of Tikona Digital Networks (TDN)
YunntaWith the help of Axio Systems, a Sun Certified Partner in Belgium, Yuntaa replaced commodity hardware with scalable and reliable Sun technology including Sun Blade X6250 Server Modules. The company is also running a highly scalable Oracle Database 11g solution based on a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server. Sun storage technology provides increased data protection and simplified administration.
“We chose the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System because it delivers outstanding value and still enables us to grow in line with our business, especially growth in end users. Whatever the future holds, our hardware is ready for it.”
— Andy Barrett, CTO, Yuntaa
TelecommunicationsMarteleron
“We have a full solution running on the Sun Blade X6250 Server Modules that’s capable of doing millions of queries of communication per second between carriers.”
— Mario Aluf-Medina, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Marteleron
Transportation and TravelPKP Information SystemsPKP Information Systems built a new IT infrastructure based on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers running on the Solaris 10 Operating System for its Oracle timetable database. It also installed Sun Blade servers to support Web applications and Sun management software. In addition, a Sun storage array and tape autoloader deliver cost-effective data protection, and a Sun SPARC Enterprise server runs smaller databases and data archiving.
“Using Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers running Solaris 10 and the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System, Poland has a train-scheduling system that is driving the country's rail infrastructure modernization program.”
— Andrzej Sankiewicz, Head of Development, PKP Information Systems
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KISTI built its fourth supercomputer "Tachyon" based on the Sun Constellation System. The supercomputer built on Sun technologies is the first open Petascale computing environment combining ultra-dense high performance computing clusters, networking, storage and software into an integrated system to deliver highly available computational power to the Korean research community.
The SAP UCC ran only SAP ERP when it opened but later added various SAP Business Suite tools and applications. Now, the UCC operates nearly 100 SAP applications, including SAP R/3, SAP ERP, Netweaver Solution Manager, SAP for Banking, and SAP for Healthcare. All of these applications run on 145 Sun servers, including Sun Fire V210, V240, V40z, V880, and V890 servers; Sun Fire T2000 servers, Sun Fire X4200 and X4200 M2 servers, and Sun Blade 6000 and 8000 Modular Systems. Sun storage solutions provide more than 90 TB of storage capacity.
Sandia is one of the first customers for the new Sun Blade X6275 and Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand QDR Switched Network Express Module to run HPC applictions.
Publiacqua replaced more than 500 desktop PC workstations with Sun Ray thin clients along with Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software and consolidated its datacenter on a Sun Fire server and Sun StorageTek system. The project was carried out with the support of TAI, a systems integrator and certified Sun partner based in Florence and Pisa, Italy.
Faced with ever growing data archiving needs, the Tessenderlo Group realized the need to upgrade its datacenters to continue to effectively manage and maintain this data while running its mission-critical SAP landscape in a Windows environment. Selecting a comprehensive technology solution from Sun — including Intel Xeon-based blade servers, a variety of StorageTek virtualized storage solutions and Sun services, the Tessenderlo Group has managed to increase uptime and provide 100 percent data availability at a very affordable TCO. Sun systems integration partner ABSI was the project manager and instrumental in the upgrade deployment and rollout of the Windows environment.
Screwfix, U.K.'s leading supplier of tools, accessories and hardware products, replaces the PCs in the Call Center with the Sun Rays driven by the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System, and reduces power consumption by 75%, and calls to the help desk by 90%.
Merkl IT relies on Sun storage and servers as the basis for its hosted
infrastructure solution known as Virtual BackOffice. By using the Sun
technology, Merkl IT can deliver cloud computing that is scalable,
reliable, energy-efficient, and flexible and that reduces the IT costs
for medium-sized businesses.
NaviSite is a leading provider of application solutions and hosting services with more than 1,500 customers in 17 datacenters in the U.S. and U.K. NaviSite delivers a unique combination of application implementation, management, and content delivery services to provide full lifecycle support.
Marteleron is launching a new service for telecom carriers on blade servers with quad-core processors from Sun Microsystems. Its entire application, including an in-memory database, can run on a single server with geographical mirror servers for redundancy and load balancing.
