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Customer TestimonialsManagers who have deployed Sun SPARC servers with Chip Multithreading technology speak from direct experience. Aachen UniversityThe RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule) Aachen, also known as the Aachen University of Technology, is one of Europe's top technical institutions for research and higher learning. Over 29,000 students pursue studies in engineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, and other fields, where applications such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tax the power of the highest performance computers the industry is able to produce. One of the largest supercomputers in the world is housed there, powered by Sun Microsystems technology. The university was curious about how the new Sun Fire T2000 might fit into this kind of environment, and decided to test one in their HPC lab. "The employment of new types of micro-processors with chip multi-processing (CMP) and chip multi-threading (CMT) technologies which will most likely dominate the market of HPC systems in the future. For sure, future multi-threading processors will be capable of executing floating point operations at the same rate as the T1 processors executes integer operations today, which the Sun Fire T2000 did well in our tests. We look to Sun to provide these kinds of advanced technologies to help guide us into the future." Dieter an Mey, HPC Team Lead, RWTH Aachen University Read RWTH Aachen's full testing report Accor North AmericaThe new architecture includes a Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server, with SPARC64 VII quad-core processors and running Oracle Financials, that provides Accor with the scalability for future growth and faster report generation. Three Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers powered by UltraSPARC T2 processors are set up as media servers running Symantec's Veritas NetBackup 6.5 software to manage the company's data backup flow. The SPARC T5120 servers with Chip Multithreaded processor technology make it a powerful solution to run NetBackup software and move data at extremely fast rates. "We've had a good experience with the duty-cycle, the history and build quality of Sun storage products. The Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 arrays and high performance T10000 tape drives are no exception. In particular, we like the built-in encryption in the tape drives, and the fact that we can use it without reducing performance." Ken Sibley, UNIX and Storage Manager, Accor North America Acquia, Inc."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. Alfresco"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 Blastwave"Show me your reasons for why you want to keep running your old servers that are the size of a pickup truck in terms of carbon footprint. Why are you still running them? Turn them off and virtualize. A Solaris 8 environment runs in a Solaris 8 Container just like it did beforeonly it's a lot faster, and it offers all of the additional benefits found only in Solaris 10." Dennis Clarke, Creator and Founder, Blastwave
Learn More China Mobile Communications CorporationChina Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) is the largest mobile phone operator in China, and the world's largest mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers. Always looking to improve customer service, they recently tested the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 for their business statistics and reporting system. "We ran extensive testing on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running Oracle databases and it's been truly amazing. We were able to double our performance on the 4RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server compared to our existing 40RU, 64 CPU system and also cut CPU utilization by over 50%. We have never seen so much mid-range computing power in such a small box while also dramatically reducing space and power consumption." Mr. Wangxin, director of the BOSS operations department, China Mobile Clifford Chance"The Solaris OS and Sun enterprise servers support our consolidation strategy in several ways. One of them is that you can deploy smaller footprints that have scalable performance, and then you can virtualize within these small footprints and support a number of applications." Hisham Anis, Enterprise Architect, Clifford Chance EMBARQ"The cost savings we have realized are astronomical. A single Sun Ray costs us roughly $250 whereas a workstation costs $1,500 to $4,000. We also no longer have to perform upgrades on hundreds of workstations. We just update ten servers and we're done." Kevin McBride, Network Systems Administrator III, EMBARQ fav.or.it"My early perception of Sun was that it dealt with enterprises and enterprises only, not startups like us. But we were swayed by the energy efficiency and associated cost savings Sun servers offered, and then by learning that Sun gave startups very good discounts and support through the Sun Startup Essentials program." Nick Halstead, Founder and CEO, favorit Ltd.
Learn More Read the Blog Entry Geisinger Health System"Geisinger could not be the medical center that it is today without Java CAPS. The fact that you can go anywhere in this hospital system and bring up a patient's entire medical record is a huge help. Our ability to broker, massage, and connect to dissimilar systems is absolutely necessary for creating a best-of-breed hospital." Duane Koble, Systems Integration and Support Team Lead, Geisinger Health System
Learn More High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)"Our staff and a number of researchers have been testing their codes with the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server and have found that most codes scale extremely well on these systems. We have installed 78 of these multithreaded systems to help meet the growing needs of our user base and to help researchers get experience with this new paradigm. Using the capacity provided through this multi-threading model, researchers will get more work done. This is a paradigm shift in how you think of doing your computations. Each thread is not a CPU core, unlike in the past, but a process that shares the same core with up to seven other threads. Although the individual threads may not be as fast as on some single threaded processors, the ability to scale gives the throughput that makes the T5140 server a great investment." Dr. Ken Edgecombe, Executive Director, HPCVL Read about Victoria Falls Cluster HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL)HMEL deployed two Sun SPARC T5440 servers and used Solaris Containers to achieve maximum utilization and run each SAP ERP module and its corresponding database on separate virtualized servers. Sun required 20 percent less space than its nearest competitor and annualized power supply costs for the Sun solution were $20,000 to $30,000 less than the nearest competitor. IDEAS International"While the previous generation UltraSPARC T1 was certainly an innovative design, the new UltraSPARC T2 brings the platform a far greater level of maturity which we believe will help the 'Niagara' concept reach its potential as a disruptive technology....the new servers announced today have the potential to claim significant market share amongst web serving, cryptography and smaller database users." International Fund Services (IFS)"We've had 100% reliability from all our Sun CoolThreads serversno down time associated with any operating system issues or hardware failureand we've exceeded all of our service-level agreements." Robert Lampietti, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, State Street Alternative Investment Solutions IT.com"Our biggest challenge is how to accelerate the discovery process for our customers. That means ingesting data, parsing it, indexing it in several ways and lastly running an extremely computationally intensive machine learning algorithm. Anyone can scale "search" as such, some for the entire Web, but we are doing much more than ordinary search. What we found is that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server provided an unbelievable capability we never thought possible from any cluster of general purpose servers and at a price point trivial to what that cluster would cost to build and maintain. It is as if we had a foot race with a 200-pound pack on our back and we still flew past the competition. Our throughput went from 3GB of data per hour on a traditional server environment to approximately 50GB of data per hour on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server a massive 17x scaling increase, with no tweaking, code changes, or other optimizations required. In other words, the machine scaled our performance as a function of the number of promised threads, with no "gotchas" The performance delivered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server was equivalent to that of other HPC systems designed with dozens of cores Sun said we'd get 128 threads of performance, and they delivered. The Sun Fire X4500 Data Server, when connected via iSCSI, provided all the throughput we needed to drive the processing pipeline. We look forward to using the new storage solutions coming out of Sun for even more I/O capacity and performance. We found the computing capacity we need in a single box with a tiny space and power footprint. This is critical for our application and any many others like it in the world of Web 2.0. In short, our experience with Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has been simply amazing! This server is a without a doubt a cluster-killer, and enables us to provide faster response times for our customers, at lower cost and complexity than either traditional servers or niche HPC products." Jason Bond Pratt, CIO, IT.com, Inc Klinikum Altenburger Land GmbH"With Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager, we can provide medical staff with patient information and ensure compliance with legally required retention periods. Tiered storage management with the StorageTek SAM software also simplifies regular migration to new storage systems and the recovery of lost data in the event of a catastrophe." Reiner Selent, IT Director, Klinikum Altenburger Land GmbH Leeds City Council"The value-add from Sun Services was in resolving the challenges of migrating from an old system to a new one without losing any data. They took us through different designs, showed us the pros and cons of each one, and helped us come up with a picture of how everything was going to work in advance. As a result of this close collaboration, we comfortably achieved our migration goals of no data loss and minimal service disruption." Melvin Thompson, UNIX infrastructure manager, Leeds City Council Lifetouch"With Sun, we have peace of mind, because it has a very strong history and reputation for being stable, reliable, and secure, and honestly, those things are very important." Karl Schubert, Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Vice president of Research and Development, Lifetouch "By using Sun products and Sun Professional Services for our solution, we can scale horizontally, and we can scale vertically. And we don't have to change one line of our software code to run dual-core, quad-core, or sixteen-core machines or any other hardware that Sun provides." Jean-Luc Vaillant, Chief Technology Officer, LinkedIn Learn More MINET"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 Motricity"The IT infrastructure powering Motricity's expanding business needed to scale to meet increased performance requirements, while reducing data center complexity and costs. "We are consistently looking for innovative ways to scale and meet the rapidly growing demands of our business. By upgrading to Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 and T5220 CoolThreads servers running the open source Solaris operating system, we have been able to consolidate our existing Apache web servers and BEA Weblogic application servers at the rate of 8:1. Also, the T2000/T5220 continues to be an excellent platform for Oracle as well. By virtualizing our applications into Solaris Containers and using the integrated 10Gigabit Ethernet and cryptographic acceleration embedded into the Sun CoolThreads servers, we have also have been able to boost system utilization and security and improve system administrator productivity, while reducing data centre power, cooling and space requirements." "Kip" Turco, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations, Motricity Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS)Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, servicing over 91.33 million subscribers. At the end of 2007, according to Informa Telecoms & Media's World Cellular Information Service, MTS ranks as the 8th largest operator in the world. To insure their infrastructure has the latest technology they tested the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440. "We tested SAS, Oracle databases and Oracle E-business suite on the new, quad-socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server. The massive throughput, memory, and I/O on the T5440 server allowed us to test migration of all our existing applications from one old big mainframe system onto a single 4RU T5440 server while also cutting CPU utilization by half. The high performance and eco-efficiency on the T5440 is very good." Alexander Bogatyerev, IT vice president, MTS National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)"Sun is a believer in our mission. They never hesitate to help us out when we need it. For example, they donated Web servers following Hurricane Katrina to help us keep up with the demands on our Web site. Sun has always been there for us and has come to be a company we rely on to get our mission done." Peg Flick, Chief Information Officer, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children NEC Corporation"We've found the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 has the availability and serviceability which a server of this class requires. And this product also has the high extensibility of a maximum of 16 HDDs, which is a testament to Sun's innovative R&D and engineering skills. Moreover, the Floating Point that was limited in the UltraSPARC T1 processor design has greatly been enhanced, and we can expect even more performance now across a broader range of workloads. It is expected that this product will become one of the best solutions for ECO and Server consolidation that NEC promotes, and will heavily contribute to the expansion of our server business in the future." Akihisa Makita, Engineering Manager, NEC Corporation New London Associates (NLA)New London Associates (NLA) is a boutique software and technology consulting firm with extensive experience in IT management at Fortune 100 companies and start-up ventures. Their goal is to enhance the internal reputation of their clients IT organization. They have been employing CMT Technology from Sun Microsystems since 2006, and recently tested the latest entry into this server line, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440. "I couldn't believe the performance improvement we got. At first the results were comparable with the current CMT servers we have, then we realized that our code had some real bottlenecks that the testing helped us discover. Once we made some changes to the the core of the Java language processing engine, the application simply flew to over an 8x performance improvement." Michael Holt, Program Manager, NLA Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN)The Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN) and the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) at Queen's University have established a high performance bioinformatics capability based on HPCVL's compute cluster, consisting of Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers equipped with multi-core UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and running the Solaris 10 OS. These servers together with Sun's CoolTools suite of HPC resources provide the OCBN with a unique and powerful combination of speed, memory bandwidth and scalability to optimize its compute-intensive, distributed, and multi-threaded cancer bioinformatics applications. OCBN is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of cancer biomarkers - biological molecules such as genes and proteins that serve as indicators for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease - to ultimately deliver personalized therapy that is safer and more effective than current approaches. To grapple with the large, multidimensional datasets from genomic, proteomic, and clinical research studies, specialized bioinformatics algorithms must be applied for signal processing, gene and protein quantification, biological function prediction, and data mining. ooVooooVoo (www.ooVoo.com) provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a more meaningful way for people to talk face-to-face over the Internet. ooVoo's award-winning technology enables up to six people to have a video conversation, whether they are across the street or across the globe from each other. Realizing they needed a stable, reliable platform that could scale to millions of users led them to the Chip-Multithreading Technology (CMT) from Sun Microsystems. "The service we provide our customers must always be on, and we need a way to react quickly to scale to meet our customers' needs. We are currently using the Sun Fire T2000 running the Solaris 10 operating system, which allows us to scale according to our customers demands, while providing the proven reliability of SPARC servers. We are also looking forward to using the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 in the future. In addition, the Java System Identity Suite and Directory Server provide simplified, secure access to our customers wanting to use our service, while allowing us to manage our resources more effectively. This combination has no competition." Daniel Yelin, COO, ooVoo PKP Information Systems"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 countrys rail infrastructure modernization program." Andrzej Sankiewicz, Head of Development, PKP Information Systems PTK Centertel"Following the receipt of a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor, we have tested a range of applications including our web server, JBoss and BEA WebLogic Java application servers, mail servers, NFS and Oracle databases. We found our performance scaled linearly with the 64 threads available, with the result that we were able to deliver over 2x higher throughput than the Sun Fire T2000, and much higher levels of performance than our existing x86 and SPARC-based rack and blade servers. This was achieved with higher levels of power and space efficiency than anything we have experienced before. We also found installation to be quite simple, with rock solid system reliability. As a result of our tests, we will be deploying the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers to keep pace with our ever expanding customer base, while at the same time reducing operational costs through higher power and space efficiency. Ease of installation and high reliability enable us to also bring new services to market faster and with higher levels of availability all serving to enhance our competitive position" Radoslaw Korzeniewski, IT Systems Expert, PTK Centertel San Diego Supercomputer Center"We found the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server to be a hugely versatile and reliable platform for our data center. The throughput delivered to our expanding web services and portal applications was impressive. We also successfully tested the T5240 running the Solaris 10 Operating System across our 4gb FC SAN with Solaris ZFS and our 10Gigabit Ethernet HPC infrastructure, allowing us to place the T5240 strategically within the HPC topology to save power and reduce TCO. We ran the server continuously for 4 months, and encountered zero downtime. Our conclusion is that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server is an effective replacement for more traditional mid-range SMP platforms and opens up new opportunities within HPC constellations." Don Thorp, Production Systems Staff, SDSC "Researchers and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Community depend on Web and database services to host and exhibit their data. This data is the product of millions of hours of experimental observations or computation time by researchers, scientists, and engineers who translate data into new discoveries and who share their results in community data collections for future research. The San Diego Supercomputer Center is a leader in data management for researchers, providing expertise, infrastructure, and tools. SDSC's Oracle databases consist of 2 separate Chip Multithreading (CMT) servers running Oracle RAC clusters that include 3 nodes each. The systems are managed by the Oracle RAC Clusterware software to provide high availability for over 30 local and national research database applications. The systems are used to manage several Terabytes of data, and consistently provide high performance and reliability." Henry Jaime - Group Manager Manager, Web and Database Services, San Diego Supercomputer Center SearchForce Inc"As a result of going to Sun, we improved our response time and we're sitting at less than ten percent system utilization with five times the business we had nine months ago. We have a scalable server and storage platform that can provide air cover for our sales team, and reports we get from our enterprise customers say that there's nothing faster out there." David Simon, Chairman, SearchForce Spencer's Retail"One benefit for us with Sun Microsystems is its understanding of retail and its ability to architect a solution for this type of business. The second benefit is that Sun has the technology to support a transaction-intensive environment, and it can provide us a solution that can handle large amounts of data so that business runs smoothly." Amit Mukherjee, Group CIO, RPG Group STRATOMore than one million customers in six European countries trust in STRATO, Europe's second largest Web host. The company runs over 3.5 million domains on more than 30,000 servers in two state-of-the-art data centers. Recently they tested the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 to see how it would perform in this kind of environment. "As Europe's second largest web host, at peak we get up to 1 billion mail-in deliveries (email traffic) per day. After testing the new quad-socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, we discovered that only one T5440 is sufficient to handle the whole load and can replace 10 of our existing Sun Fire T2000 servers. Also Sun's open-source, no cost virtualization technologies, Logical Domains (LDoms) and Solaris Containers can further help us consolidate even more applications. In addition, we were really impressed with the performance, scalability, and eco-efficiency of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server. In fact, we anticipate we may save up to 30% on power consumption alone." Rene Wienholtz, CIO and management board member, STRATO STRATO AG"As Europe's second largest web host, we are always interested in testing new solutions that enable us to deliver the highest levels of service to our customers, at the lowest cost. We were one of Sun's first customers of the Sun Fire T2000 server and were delighted that this system enabled us to dramatically reduce power by over 70% and space by almost 60% in our data centers. The new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5x20 servers will enable us to significantly extend our ability to scale quickly and efficiently, while further reducing costs. We estimate that the T5000 servers will deliver around 2.5x higher throughput than the existing T2000 servers when running our Apache web servers and mail servers, which has been proven in our testing. In terms of computing power, the T5000 offers a performance per watt ratio that is nearly doubled in a direct comparison to its predecessor the T2000. In other words, with the new line of Sun CMT-based servers, we will be able to save 43% of energy consumption compared to a direct replacement strategy of our existing T2000 servers. At the same time, we will use the extended functionality of the T5000 servers to run our floating point-intensive SPAM filters, and encrypt our SMTP traffic, ensuring higher levels of security for our customers These servers will enable us to meet our key objectives of efficiently scaling for the opportunities presented by the Participation Age." Rene Wienholtz, CTO, Strato AG Symeos"With the support of Sun, we have developed a cost-effective identity management platform that offers customers 99.999% availability and is easily scalable." Herve Prot, Chief Executive Officer, Symeos 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, Tikona Digital Networks (TDN) UK Home Office Criminal Records BureauThe UK Home Office has recently awarded a contract for the VBS programme to Logica. The Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) programme has been set up in response to the weaknesses in vetting procedures identified by Sir Michael Bichard in his 2004 Inquiry Report. Sun partnered with systems integrator Logica to build a system that takes advantage of a wide range of Sun technologies including the Solaris Operating System, Sun UltraSPARC and CoolThreads servers, Sun Storage and Sun Cluster software for a cost-effective, low-risk solution. Sun Services were also engaged to assist with installation and ongoing support. University Of California, Berkeley"We've been using Chip Multithreading (CMT) based systems since Sun released the first "Niagara" products back in late 2005. The release of the UltraSPARC T2 processor in 2007 with its greatly enhanced Floating Point capability enabled us to extend CMT to our most challenging high performance computing (HPC) codes. We have since extended that work to the UltraSPARC T2 Plus server based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers, taking advantage of the multi-socket architecture to scale performance and throughput. We have seen great results scaling from 64 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 servers to 128 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers for our plasma physics and PDE codes, and from our sparse iterative kernel. In addition, this scaling came at no cost to productivity. In fact, we were able to scale without even recompiling the code. For our applications, CMT technology is by far the most productive solution to achieving high performance." "We've been using CMT-based systems since Sun released the first Niagara products back in late 2005. The release of the UltraSPARC T2 processor in 2007 with its greatly enhanced Floating Point capability, enabled us to extend CMT to our most challenging HPC codes. We have since extended that work to the UltraSPARC T2 Plus based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5440 Servers, taking advantage of their multi-socket architectures to scale performance and throughput. We have seen great results scaling from 64 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 systems to 128 and 256 threads in the UltraSPARC T2 Plus systems for our plasma physics and PDE codes, and from our sparse iterative kernel. In addition, this scaling came at no cost to productivity. In fact, we were able to scale without even recompiling the code. For our applications, CMT technology is by far the most productive solution to achieving high performance." Samuel Webb Williams, PhD candidate, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley University of Central FloridaThe University of Central Florida implemented a comprehensive IT solution from Sun in an effort to develop a more robust, reliable and scalable Storage Area Network (SAN). By selecting Sun StorageTek technologies and Sun Fire x64, Ultrasparc, and Coolthreads servers running the Solaris Operating System, the university is increasing its compute power on its backend database servers, implementing more power efficient and cost-effective application servers, and cost-effective SAS storage for their disaster recovery environment. The SAN solution, considered 'best of breed' by the university, will support services across the campus from ERP and distance learning to virtual systems for academics, and in the near future- storage services for the University's new medical school that is currently under construction. Sun Professional Services is assisting with the implementation. A Sun support agreement and training services are also included in the deal. University of Erlangen"Through our extensive testing with the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server, we found that despite the theoretical memory bandwidth of single-socket UltraSPARC T2 and dual-socket T2 Plus processor systems to be the same, the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor architecture delivers 30% more memory bandwidth, which results in exceptionally high throughput and scalability on Computational Fluid Dynamic applications, without having to reoptimize any code. It just scaled across processor sockets. We found the 2 x UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors in the 1 Rack Unit high Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server to be equivalent in performance with up to 6 dual-core AMD Opteron processors for CFD code. When the power, space and administrative savings are considered, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server offers exceptional value to any organization needing maximum compute throughput and bandwidth in highly dense, power efficient packaging. We have characterized the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and systems to be an 'IBM BlueGene on a chip' - and believe Sun's CoolThreads technology to be a glimpse of what is to come in the commodity HPC market." Dr. Georg Hager, HPC researcher, RRZE depratment, University of Erlangen US Air ForceThe Capabilities Integration Environment consolidated servers using the Containers feature in the Solaris 10 Operating System. Additionally, using Sun's virtualization technology, CIE was able to reduce rack space to achieve a 13:1 consolidation ratio. Australian Finance Group"We were especially blown away with the performance of the Sun Fire T2000 servers and the cost savings they provided. We've saved tens of thousands in software licensing fees alone." Paul Blackman, IT infrastructure manager, Australian Finance Group Bahrain Mercantile and Maritime International (BMMI)The Sun Fire servers' UltraSPARC processors with CoolThreads technology also helped BMMI save space and consume less energy. For example, the Sun Fire T2000 server runs up to 32 compute threads concurrently and has 64 GB memory, yet needs only 2RU of rack space and 275 watts of power. By consolidating Windows and UNIX systems on the Sun Fire servers, BMMI has reduced its data center size by 50 percent. Bank of AmericaBank of America is committed to using technology to reduce the company's impact on the environment, particularly in the area of energy consumption. They recently added the Sun Fire T2000 server running Solaris 10 as one piece of this commitment. "We at Bank of America are doing our part by selecting environmentally friendly products such as the Sun Fire T2000. These servers utilize less space and consume much less energy while delivering significantly improved performance. Taking advantage of this opportunity to do what is right for the environment while at the same time improving our customers' experience is the perfect combination for us." Don Obert, Chief Technology Officer, Bank of America Benton Public Utility District"With Sun's Try and Buy program, it was easy to try a Sun Fire T2000 server-and the result was a 50 percent improvement in key customer service processing times." Randy Mills, Supervisor of Information Systems, Benton Public Utility District Betfair"We replaced racks and racks of Dell servers with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. The result is more computing power in the same physical space and significantly less power - double win for us. Thanks largely to the savings of the Sun eco responsible servers, Betfair has achieved 200% usage growth - all within the same datacenter space." Rorie Devine, Chief Technology Officer, Betfair Learn More Read the Computing Business article CA Mobile Ltd"Using low-power-consumption servers resulted in reduced rack and electricity expenses. The more we use, the faster the return on our investment; we anticipate the returns in no time. By switching to high-performance Sun servers, we can slow down the pace of server growth, and system administration will be much easier." Tomohiko Saito, System Group Manager, C.A. Mobile Casema"We selected Sun Fire T2000 servers for this environment because they are ideally suited for Web and self-service applications. They meet our architectural specifications, offer high computational capacity and are able to effortlessly handle the required workload. At the same time, they use less energy and occupy less space than other servers in their class." Aad van Boven, Senior Manager, IT Operations, Casema Catholic Syrian Bank"Sun's solution architecture design had the right combination of software and hardware products. Sun has laid a world-class IT foundation based on innovation and excellence. This offering will enable us to scale our infrastructure as we grow from strength to strength and help us become a financial institution delivering world-class services. " T.B.R. Joseph, Dy General Manager (IT), Catholic Syrian Bank Central Bank of EgyptCentral Bank of Egypt has selected Sun to help modernize and restructure its infrastructure. The project, which is the largest undertaken between Sun and the Central Bank of Egypt, will include Sun Fire T2000 servers based on the UltraSPARC TI Processor, which have revolutionized the processor market with their strong performance and power saving, and the Solaris 10 Operating System. City of Henderson"We're so impressed with the performance and cost of the Sun Fire T2000 that we're adopting it as our standard platform for all Unix-based applications. A dozen more server consolidations are planned and they are all going on the T2000. There is no better choice for an organization like ours, which is facing unlimited growth while trying to reduce operating costs. It's a great solution for the budget and the environment." Ed Molina, Manager of Strategic Services, City of Henderson Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium"A Wintel platform was never an option for our Vista e-learning applications. The Sun equipment has been a great foundation. It's been ultra-stable and reliable. Issues with Sun are always solved long before they reach my desk, and that makes me happy." George Claffey, CIO, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Digitar"We improve performance so much and reduce costs in so many ways with the T2000 that it represents a 10X improvement in price-performance for our entire architecture." Jason Williams, Chief Operating Office and Chief Technology Officer, DigiTar
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Ebay"Niagaras run much cooler than our previous servers, plus they are scary fast. They've cut our total cost of operations [TCO] through lower acquisition and management costs. The Sun Fire T2000 will be our database platform of choice in 2007." Heather Peck, Infrastructure Manager, eBay Inc. Fiducia IT AGOne of the leading Systems Integrators for the banking industry, Fiducia IT AG hosts the IT infrastructure for all of the cooperative banks in half of Germany. Their huge data center boasts one of the biggest Java Applications in the world, called agree(R) which is based on Fiducia's Java Banking Framework (JBF). More than 100,000 workstations and 20,000 ATMs are connected to 800+ Sun Fire V440 Servers. After testing the Sun Fire T2000 and comparing its performance against other leading platforms, they were convinced that the Sun Fire T2000 was the right system for the future. "Unpacking the box we couldn't believe a 32 thread server could be so small. But after running our own benchmarks it's pretty clear that looks can be deceiving. With the Sun Fire T2000 servers we'll be able to replace our current servers at a rate of 4:1 while doubling our performance. And if that's not enough it, it looks like we'll be able to cut our energy use from 5.2 to .35 kw/hour. That's a factor of 14. Amazing!" Matthias Schorer, Chief Architect FotologWith over 3 million users and 100 million viewable pictures, Fotolog is one of the world's leading photo blog sites. Fotolog allows people to create a personal, daily photo blog and share it with family, friends, and people around the world. This site is growing so rapidly that Fotolog's IT team found themselves in need of a much faster way to serve its community, and decided to try out the new Sun Fire T1000 server. "Numbers don't lie - we experienced a 300% performance increase after we started using the T1000s. In a third of the space at a third of the power consumption, we were able to build out our infrastructure enough to maintain the excellent level of service Fotolog members expect. We hope to double our views per day in the next three months, and couldn't handle that kind of traffic without the T1000s." Warren Habib, CTO, Fotolog
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Joyent"The UltraSPARC T1 processors are supercomputers on a chip, with half the power and cooling needs of Intel Xeon chips. There's no competition today for servers built with Sun CoolThreads technology." Jason Hoffman, CTO, Joyent Inc.
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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 Las Vegas Valley Water District"Sun gives us high reliability in systems, high availability for our own customers, expert consulting and support, and a completely engineered solution based on strong partnerships with our other vendors." Greg Hearn, Senior Systems Administrator, Las Vegas Valley Water District Leeds City Council"The value-add from Sun Services was in resolving the challenges of migrating from an old system to a new one without losing any data. They took us through different designs, showed us the pros and cons of each one, and helped us come up with a picture of how everything was going to work in advance. As a result of this close collaboration, we comfortably achieved our migration goals of no data loss and minimal service disruption." Melvin Thompson, UNIX infrastructure manager, Leeds City Council LokalistenA Sun Fire T2000 server was supplied by Sun as part of the Try and Buy Program. With an extremely limited budget, Lokalisten.de found Sun's offer to try its server risk-free for 60 days attractive. Lokalisten.de deployed Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers running Solaris 10 and optimized for highly parallel Internet applications. With the eight-core UltraSPARC T1 processor, the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Internet servers can process up 32 tasks simultaneously. This makes them ideal for dynamic Internet applications serving many users concurrently. "The idea of trying the product for free for 60 days and then buying it was exactly the kind of solution we had in mind." Peter Wehner, Trend Scout, Lokalisten.de MLB.com"MLB.com is one of the Internet's most successful broadband portals devoted to professional sports, with more than 1 billion minutes of streaming media and over 2,430 full-length games offered to more than 1.5 billion visitors in 2005. Sun has been a trusted technology partner and we look forward to trying their new Chip Multithreading Technology. During the season on average our site receives 6 to 7 million visitors daily and they view more than 50 million pages per day. We are always open to trying new technology that can deliver a performance enhancement to our visitors, while also reducing our overall data center costs." Justin Shaffer, Advanced Media vice president and chief architect, Major League Baseball NEC CorporationNEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) (FTSE: 6701q.l) is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. Ranked as one of the world's top patent-producing companies, NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. "We are very glad to hear that Sun has announced the UltraSPARC T1 systems. We evaluated a major ERP application on UltraSPARC T1 and have gotten good performance in our initial results. We expect this new product to contribute significantly to the growth of our system integration business, both in web applications and in other application areas such as ERP." Toshiro Kawamura, Senior Executive Vice President and member of the board, NEC
Reuters AlertNet"Knowing that AlertNet is now supported by the powerful Sun technology gives us confidence that we will have access to information that helps our our humanitarian mission." Sarah Nelson, Medecins Sans Frontieres UK SAP Belgium Education Center"As an innovative IT company it, is only logical that we offer our trainees state-of-the-art training facilities. The solution of Sun Microsystems, a world leader and trendsetter in the field of hardware, fits in perfectly with the desired image of our company." An Vranken, Assistant Training Manager, SAP Belgium Education Center SearchForce Inc"There was really no comparison. Sun was unmatched by any other vendor, including HP, IBM and Dell, for price, performance and scalability. SearchForce manages more than 25 million keywords and over $100 million in SEM spend through direct and indirect customers and is growing rapidly; our new architecture based on the Solaris 10 OS gives us the ability to scale on demand and exceed our customer requirements." David Simon, Chairman, SearchForce Sina"The Sun Fire T1000 server's CoolThreads and multi-core technology and support for the 'Green Computing' standard set a milestone for the entire Internet service industry." Li Songbo, Chief Technology Officer, Sina Swisscom Mobile"For half the price of the old environment, we will get a substantial improvement in scalability and availability. We are extremely impressed with the performance of the T2000 server and are interested in consolidating other machines to the new Sun systems. One of my biggest challenges is getting everything under one roof. Each and every floor tile in the data center is important. With the Sun Fire T2000 servers, 12 machines can do the work of 60 previous-generation servers. That saves space, it saves money, and I get the latest technology on a very powerful and flexible machine." Christian Kattenbusch, Project Leader for CRM and Identity Management, Swisscom Mobile Time Warner CableTime Warner Cable is using Sun's Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 broadly and have found it to be reliable platform in their service delivery. Universidad Complutense de Madrid"After assessing the possible solutions and suppliers, our institution chose Sun to carry out the project due to the robustness, scalability, and simple licensing of the Java Enterprise System platform." Jacinto de Castro, Director Information Technology Services Division, Universidad Complutense de Madrid US ArmyThe Army chose to deploy a clustered Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System as Web tier servers, taking advantage of shared multithreading technology for higher capacity. Vonage"The Internet communications business is all about delivering service faster, cheaper and more reliably. The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers give us the performance, space, power and ultimately cost savings that we need to compete effectively. We have a good working relationship with Sun as well. Their people know what we need and work with us to meet our technical requirements." Tim Smith, President, Vonage Network Inc Learn More Read the ComputerWorld story
Western Governors University"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
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