"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." said Radoslaw Korzeniewski, IT Systems Expert at PTK Centertel. "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
"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 AGStrato AG
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 16, 2008
Sun today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration.
Sun Microsystems,
Aug 07, 2007
Record Benchmarks and Virtualization, Decoupled from Sun Servers, to Power Third-Party Server, Storage and Networking Device Marketplace
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 21, 2008
Sun systems with CoolThreads technology deliver breakthrough performance with dramatic space and power efficiency, enabling you to consolidate your Web tier and dramatically improve energy efficiency – all while increasing overall throughput and enhancing security.
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 21, 2008
Simply securing Web servers is not enough – protecting data as it moves through the environment is key. With Sun's secure Web infrastructure, businesses can take advantage of built-in cryptographic acceleration in Sun servers and strong software and storage security features to create Web scale performance, robust infrastructures with security capabilities at every level.
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 21, 2008
Sun systems with CoolThreads technology deliver breakthrough performance with dramatic space and power efficiency, enabling you to deploy enterprise applications in a virtualized application-tier infrastructure that offers greater throughput and eases datacenter capacity limitations.
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 21, 2008
Sun systems with CoolThreads technology deliver scalability, high reliability, and breakthrough OLTP performance. This helps ensure that organizations using these systems deliver the best possible customer experience while at the same time minimizing their administrative overhead and reducing costs.
Sun Microsystems,
Jan 21, 2008
Recent advances in performance and virtualization with Sun CoolThreads servers have enabled Sun to team with Zeus Technology to provide a next-generation solution for load balancing and application traffic management – a solution that combines the high-performance throughput and virtualization capabilities of Sun CoolThreads servers with the flexibility and power of Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) software.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
Spam is clogging your network, servers, and inboxes at a rate that grows every day. Viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, and phishers are getting smarter at finding ways of assaulting your users, costing you money and productivity. In the arms race against spammers, here's your advantage. It's the leading spam-killing software from Symantec, powered by Sun's multithreaded CoolThreads technology. It filters out more than 97 percent of unwanted emails at the gateway, before they reach user desktops.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
How do you protect data across the Internet and within the enterprise? Start with any of our newly announced UltraSPARC T2-based systems - Sun SPARC Enterprise T5110 and T5220 rack servers. Each server's UltraSPARC T2 processor includes on-chip cryptography accelerators that can reduce the cost of encryption processing by 20x while having almost no impact on performance.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
Learn more about Sun CoolThreads servers and Cool Tools software can help you accelerate application development, tuning, debugging, and deployment.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
This LDAP Reference implementation describes how to deploy Sun Java Systems Directory, Solaris 10 OS and Sun Fire CoolThreads servers to achieve optimal performance for web infrastructures.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
Sun offers a new recipe for success – the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this "recipe" provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. Sun provides complete step-by-step instructions to get up and running more quickly when building and deploying Web applications. Sun offers five easy steps to quickly develop Web applications.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
Sun's Web Tier Advantage Program provides a comprehensive solution that customers can use to meet their performance, space, security, scalability, and utilization needs. See for yourself why the Solaris 10 Operating System is the the most advanced operating system on the planet. Free training, free tools, and a way to try out hottest servers, desktops, and storage products free for 60 days.
Sun Oracle 10g Grid Reference Architecture.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 01, 2007
Sun and Oracle have jointly developed the Sun Oracle 10g Grid Reference Architecture for resource virtualization and provisioning. The Oracle RAC 10g database offers many features to improve resource utilization and provision resources to meet demanding business changes. Coupled with CoolThreads servers, the Reference Architecture is designed to enable organizations to reduce IT costs, use resources more efficiently and quickly adapt infrastructure to an ever-changing business environment.
Sun Microsystems,
Oct 09, 2007
IT solutions play a critical role in helping enterprises compete effectively in today's fast changing global markets. Organizations of every size and type increasingly depend upon information technology to execute day-to-day operations, interact with customers, and generate revenue.
IDC,
Aug 07, 2007
This paper explores Sun's launch of the Niagara 2 processor, which is
the second-generation UltraSPARC T-Series chip multithreaded (CMT)
processor family. It analyzes the importance of this announcement to Sun
and examines how this new processor may affect competition in the
worldwide server market, especially in servers supporting Web-intensive,
transaction-intensive, and high-bandwidth workloads.
