ISVs Endorse CoolThreads

"AppGate has launched a 10,000 concurrent user solution in one single server based on the Sun Fire T2000 Server. The new solution will be an appliance from AppGate called A10 and is available today. With this new solution, AppGate has again shown leadership in access security and application/device security. By making it possible to have as many as 10,000 users in one single server it is now even easier to build large scale implementations."

"We expect Sun's new CoolThreads technology to deliver a secure and reliable environment for running high speed, truly scalable Java applications. Much as previous generations of UltraSPARC servers did, only faster," says Peter Kjallman, VP Operations, Appium.

Appium announces key performance results on Sun Fire Servers with CoolThreads technology. For telecoms operators worldwide these results translate into the ability to offer high capacity revenue generating services to its customers. They also offer operators significant capital and operational cost savings due to performance and power optimization alongside reduced data centre rack space and support costs.

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"Axiom Systems is eagerly awaiting the launch of Sun's new SunFire servers with CoolThreads technology. The SunFire T1 CoolThreads processor promises to be a real leap forward in second generation CMT processors and we look forward to advantages such as the scalability of well threaded applications and the increased speed of throughput. The fact that the SunFire T1 CoolThreads processor is compatible with the SPARC v9 specification and Solaris 10 will be of great benefit to our customers existing investments in Sun. This exciting innovation from Sun will be of real value to our end to end service provisioning suite AXIOSS that requires high transactional throughput." says Cliff Evans, Product Group Director, Axiom Systems.

"The SPARC Enterprise family of products based on Solaris 10 is a solid platform for IT consolidation and rehosting mainframe applications using BEA Mainframe Rehosting solution. The mainframe-like performance, RAS, and management characteristics of the SPARC Enterprise servers and Solaris 10 together with mainframe-class capabilities of BEA Tuxedo and related middleware, enables BEA to rehost mainframe applications and meet customer SLA's with low risk and at a significantly lower cost," Wai Wong, Executive Vice President of Engineering,BEA Systems. "The power of the joint solution combining Sun's SPARC Enterprise servers and Solaris 10 with BEA middleware and extensive mainframe migration experience offers mainframe community a proven path for modernizing invaluable enterprise applications, preserving critical business logic, and liquefying legacy assets without disrupting the customer's business processes."

"Enterprises have always counted on BEA for high-performance software, and the BEA WebLogic on Sun Fire T2000 system benchmarks released today further extends our performance leadership," said Rob Levy, Chief Technology Officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "Multi-core and thread acceleration technologies are at the sweet spot of system design ­ today's launch underscores this continued trend in the industry.  In support of the Sun launch, we've announced WebLogic promotional pricing and the general availability of BEA JRockit -- the industry's fastest JVM -- on Solaris"

"Business Objects supports Sun's new Sun Fire CoolThreads servers and looks forward to working with joint customers to maximize their business intelligence performance with these new massively threaded systems" said Keith Bigelow, Vice President of Product Management at Business Objects.

"As enterprise customers process large amounts of information through increasingly complex business applications, the raw power of server platforms has become critical to business success," said Laura McCluer, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at CA. "CA supports the introduction of Sun's Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology with the management solutions customers require to ensure end-to-end service levels and to minimize lifecycle ownership costs."

"Callidus customers will benefit from the increased performance and reduced total cost of ownership that Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 systems with CoolThreads technology will provide," said Robert Warfield, Senior Vice President, Engineering and CTO of Callidus Software. "The Callidus TrueComp(r) application utilizes grid computing - the performance power advantage provided by Sun Fire systems will be advantageous to our enterprise customers that need to process millions of transactions within hours in order to pay tens of thousands of payees," continued Warfield."

"With the introduction of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, Sun is again establishing new standards for network computing. Customers running Check Point NGX platform on these servers will be assured of high-performance, energy efficiency and industry leading VPN/Firewall functionality," said Paul Weinstein, Vice President of Business Development for Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP). "Sun and Check Point continue to work together to deliver to customers world class levels of security, accelerated network security deployment, and simplified security management all at the industry's lowest total cost of ownership"

"Covalent's Enterprise Ready Server (ERS), the most widely distributed Web infrastructure stack in Fortune 500 enterprises, includes multiple versions of the popular Apache HTTP Web Server and Apache Tomcat Application Server. By combining ERS with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology, we are addressing critical power and space issues customers are experiencing while achieving 4x performance improvement over comparable Intel based servers," says Mark Brewer, CEO of Covalent Technologies.

"We recently benchmarked our Solaris 10 based, multi-threaded HDL/ESL simulation system the V2Sim on the Sun Fire T2000 server. We found that the T2000 server with the 32-thread UltraSPARC T1, chip multi-threading processor with large caches demonstrated the best scalability when compared to results obtained from tests on other SMP servers based on Intel, HP and AMD microprocessors running Windows and Linux operating systems. In fact, on simulating several large-scale (billion plus logic gates) custom integrated circuit designs we saw near linear performance speed-up of the V2Sim simulation system on the T2000 servers. We could not achieve such scalability on the other platforms. Based on this performance, we would highly recommend the SunFire T2000 servers to all our V2Sim customers." said Terence Chan, CEO & President, Dynetix Design Solutions Inc.

"Sun's Throughput Computing strategy represents a new paradigm in terms of performance-driven, eco-friendly servers with multi-threading technology. We expect end users deploying the new servers based on the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology to leverage the benefits of networked storage, and Emulex is working closely with Sun to deliver a robust 4Gb/s SAN connectivity solution that fully optimizes the increased throughput and performance capabilities of the UltraSPARC T1," said Mike Smith, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corp.

"Finacle has been on Sun Solaris from Day 1. Some of our largest customers run their most critical core banking application on Sun Solaris. We are indeed excited at the prospect of having next generation processors from Sun, along with latest OS Solaris 10. This will certainly help Finacle take more load with lesser infrastructure. The real estate and cooling issues will also get addressed for the customer." Venkataramanan T S, Associate Vice President and Head Engineering Finacle.

"Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 breakthrough CoolThreads technology delivers extreme performance and performance per watt running the advanced Solaris 10 operating system. The architecture of these machines, with chip multithreading allowing up to 32 simultaneous execution threads, is ideally suited to the HarvestRoad Hive web application profile."

"The Sun SPARC T2000 Enterprise servers running Solaris are solid platforms widely used in the IT world and are especially useful for backup applications. Porting StorSentry™, our Proactive Tape Infrastructure Management solution, to such a platform was a must have for Hi-Stor Technologies to succeed in this market." - Jean-Pierre Adi, Product Marketing Director, Hi-Stor Technologies.

"The high performance architecture of the Holly Voice Platform is constrained by the limitations of traditional processors to service threads in real-time. The Sun Fire T2000 server with CoolThreads technology enables the Holly Voice Platform to break through these limitations to achieve a 600% improvement in throughput performance compared to previous generation systems." Ray Teale, Chief Technology Officer, Holly Connects.

"We are looking forward to these new innovative products from Sun Microsystems. In the past, we have delivered more or less 100% of our systems on earlier Sun platforms and with the new CMT cpu's we expect to have price performance that will meet the needs from the most demanding telco customers. We will go into the lab and test the Sun UltraSPARC T1 (on our new OSS/J integration Hub) very soon," said Roland Volk, CEO, IP Value.

"Many of JBoss' customers rely on Sun as a key part of their enterprise infrastructures," said Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss. "JBoss Application Server on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology provides massive scalability, backward compatibility along with reduced footprint, allowing customers to economically manage and scale their web services infrastructures. Our close collaboration with Sun through the JBoss Certified Solution Partner Program has allowed us to fully certify and support UltraSPARC T1 on JBoss.

"Sun's truly innovative solution with Solaris 10 and the UltraSPARC T1 based servers enable applications to deliver significant performance without expensive investments in requalification and re-certification. This allows software vendors like JIT the ability to quickly offer compelling price/performance solutions to our customers."Jingcheng Tian, CTO, Jilin University Information Technologies Co.,Ltd.

"Kabira has been delivering high-performance, multi-threaded transaction processing software since 1996, so we were anxious to see how our product ran on the Sun Fire CoolThreads server." said Dirk Epperson, VP Product Strategy at Kabira Technologies. "We just copied our software onto a Sun Fire T2000 server, ran our test, doubled performance, no tuning, no recompile."

"Luna's cool new Sun Fire T2000 server is being used to our newest hosted client, Birkbeck College, University of London. This high-performance CoolThreads server runs Solaris 10 and utilizes containers and ZFS. Birkbeck College selected Luna's Hosting Service in order to focus resources on content building. With 24/7 access to their dedicated collection server at Luna's Los Angeles facility, they will process media and catalogue with the Insight suite of tools including Insight Studio, Inscribe, and Personal Insight from their London location." said Drake Zabriskie, Chief Technology Officer, Luna Imaging, Inc.

"Real-time environments require fast, scalable hardware to maximize the value of our semantic composite applications. Our clients are gathering information from existing applications, performing additional semantic processing to assess operational impact, and then utilizing a combination of rules and policies to trigger actions to other systems dynamically based on the situation at hand. This kind of compute intensive combination of simultaneous and asynchronous tasks benefits greatly from the new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000. We see this kind of breakthrough as enabling Metatomix to expand the scope and depth of our solutions to our customers." Colin Britton, Chief Technology Officer, Metatomix, Inc.

"There is tremendous demand for high-scale Business Intelligence systems as companies increase the number of BI users and the amount of data in their applications," said MicroStrategy’s VP of Alliances, Tom Villani.  "Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology will enable MicroStrategy's customers to deploy high performance 64-bit BI applications and benefit from the multi-threaded architecture and reduced energy costs."

"We see tremendous opportunities with MySQL Network and Sun's new Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology. MySQL 5.0's combination of open source value and advanced enterprise database capabilities provides a compelling solution for customers looking to reduce costs and maximize efficiency of their data centers." Zack Urlocker, Vice President of Marketing, MySQL AB.

"Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology provide superior scalability and seamless support for large systems with dramatically reduced data center costs," said Andrew Feinberg, President and Chief Executive Officer at NetCracker. "With the new Sun systems, we are able to offer a reliable, powerful and cost-effective deployment option to our customer base."

"With these new Sun Fire systems, Sun is not only enabling Oracle's huge user base on UltraSPARC to maximize the performance of their applications and realize the significant cost savings benefits of this new multi-threaded platform, they're also creating a new market opportunity with a high-performance, low-cost deployment alternative for Oracle grid," said Charles Phillips, President, Oracle.

"Our testing showed significant scaling and throughput improvement for database applications running with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database on Sun Microsystems' new SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 rackmount servers. These new systems, featuring the new powerful 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor, are ideal for deployment of concurrent multi-threaded applications using Oracle TimesTen" said Susan Cheung, Director TimesTen Product Management, Oracle Corporation.

"Oracle Fusion Middleware Sets Best-in-Class Result for Single-Processor System with SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark on Sun UltraSPARC T2 Server Running Solaris 10."

"With the added possibility of backwards compatibility with previous generations of UltraSPARC systems, Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology provide a huge performance benefit. We're looking forward to helping our customers maximize their trading performance with these new massively threaded systems." Jonas Hansbo - Head of Algorithmic Trading, Orc Software.

"Portal is excited to participate in the launch of the Sun Fire CoolThreads servers. Customers using Portal's Revenue Management solution require significant throughput to process massive amounts of rating, billing and financial data. Our joint customers continue to be concerned with growing their business while maintaining low operational costs. With an impressively small footprint and low energy consumption, the UltraSPARC T1 technology may benefit those customers who anticipate the expected gains in processing power and throughput," said CTO, JP Krishnamoorthy.

"Storage administrators in Global 2000 companies want servers that can leverage new bus and network architectures to maximize application performance," said Frank Berry, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, QLogic Corporation. "Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology are expected be the first class of server capable of taking full advantage of the new PCI-Express bus and 4Gb Fibre Channel network infrastructure."

"The scalability and reliability of the SPARC Enterprise systems based on Solaris 10 are ideal for customers to deploy the most demanding of SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform products and solutions. The rich memory, processor and I/O scalability features of these new systems along with the Solaris binary compatibility guarantee, enable our applications to deliver excellent performance in a risk free environment. This allows SAS to deliver compelling value to our customers in terms of investment protection and total cost of ownership." said Craig Rubendall, SAS Research and Development Director.

"SAS(r)9 Business Intelligence, which delivers critical competitive advantage, and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology for SAS(r)9 mid-tier or web application server deployment, are changing the rules. We're looking at a completely cool combination that yields multi-dimensional transformations in a tangible, radical fashion," said Craig Rubendall, SAS Research and Development Director.

"Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire T2000 and Raining Data's TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS) provide a low cost, high transaction volume solution for XML data. For example, high volume geospatial data in XML messages are becoming more prevalent in government and commercial applications. A single T2000 server with TigerLogic XDMS can manage up to 50,000 geospatial XML messages per minute, leveraging in-memory cache, efficient XML processing and native GML (Geography Markup Language) support." said Bob Albo, Vice President, XML-Centric Business Solutions, Raining Data

"Soft Solutions deployed internally a Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire T1000 server with Solaris 10 to run a major American drugstore client's Master Data Management project using Soft Solutions' ibs REFERENTIAL and ibs DATA SYNC. The capabilities offered by the system allowed us to simultaneously deploy multiple environments made of relational databases and Java application servers in order to duplicate the client's environment with SSO and real-time transaction. Beside the raw power exhibited by the server, Soft Solutions greatly appreciated the space-saving and energy savings of the server," said Olivier Declerfayt, Soft Solutions Technical Director.

"SSA Global[tm], a leading global provider of extended enterprise solutions, is announcing support for Sun Solaris 10 on Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology. Through its intelligent chip design and energy efficiency, Sun Fire systems can host large numbers of users and processes vast transaction volumes. We're looking forward to helping customers maximize their application performance with these new massively threaded systems," said Rick Bernard, Vice President Solution Management, SSA Global.

"Sun's innovative solution with Solaris 10 and the UltraSPARC T1 based servers enable applications to deliver significant performance without expensive investments in requalification and re-certification. This solution is non-disruptive to application environments and also out-of-the-box, without the need for any changes to or recompilation of our application." Ms. Anuradha, Vice President, Engineering, Subex Systems.

"Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology running the Solaris 10 operating environment represent a breakthrough in CMT technology. SunGard's XAMIN applications running on these systems can help our customers in the financial services marketplace maximize their application performance with less energy and on a smaller footprint due to the multithreading technology," said Doug Morgan, President, Investment Systems SunGard.

"Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology represent a major breakthrough in Chip Multithreaded (CMT) technology, with the added benefit of backwards compatibility with previous generations of UltraSPARC systems," said Herman Li, Vice President of Engineering, Information Technology Solutions Group, Sybase. "We're looking forward to helping customers benefit from the increased performance and reduced costs that Sun Fire CoolThreads server systems will provide."

"With an increasing number of devices connecting to networks and users demanding higher levels of performance, customers look to technology leaders like Sun and Symantec to keep their applications and services available and secure," said Niall Wall, Vice President of Business Development and Alliances. "The new Sun Fire servers offer an innovative new platform that will help us develop software to better meet the performance, security, and availability demands of customers who depend on their IT infrastructure as a competitive differentiator."

Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on the Sun Fire T2000 Server

"The combination of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software with the new CoolThread servers allows for delivery capabilities of 180 analyzed emails per second, providing leading real-time defense against spam and malware," said Matt Hartwell-Herrero, group product manager, Symantec Messaging Security. "Sun, working closely with Symantec, is announcing an offer of a comprehensive integrated solution on the new Solaris10 based servers which helps ease installation, deployment, and management, and also speeds up the operation of the customer's antispam environment."

"Telco operators demand more and more from the network systems regarding speed, scalability and reliability. Every new launch providing an even smaller footprint, higher capacity at a lower price is of great importance for business sucess. The new UltraSPARC T1 seems to meet all these requested criteria," stated Thomas Axelsson, CEO, Symsoft.

"Systar's Omnivision product, a leading solution in Performance & Capacity Management, analyses behavior and usage levels across distributed systems, assisiting IT managers to maximize cost savings and deliver significant service quality. The Omnivision application running in Solaris 10 Containers and Zones on the Sun Fire T1000/T2000 servers, maximize application performance,providing our users with a highly efficient and agile solution that enhances business performance. We are looking forward to working with our joint customers using this solution to provide a complete picture of virutalized systems" says Charles Le, Omnivision Product Manager, Systar.

"TeamQuest is very excited about the new UltraSPARC T1 chip architecture and the performance which it delivers to the customer community. Sun is working extremely hard to be the system of choice in the data center and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology is the next step in achieving that reality. TeamQuest is proud to be a partner in making this a reality. Congratulations on your launch," said Joe Rich, Director of Strategic Alliances, TeamQuest.

Processing millions of text messages and responses often in large burst volumes in a timely fashion brings an interesting problem. Sun's breakthrough Ultrasparc T1 chip is designed to process lots of small tasks simultaneously making it perfect for our processing requirements. The 3rd Degree platform has been optimised to fully utilise the Ultrasparc T1 to dramatic effect. This means that survey and form participants receive messages and responses extremely quickly. The 3rd degree has seen significant speed and processing advantages implementing T1 based hardware.

Of course there are some other very significant side effects. The increased throughput of T1 means less hardware to maintain, reduced system complexity, time and ultimately financial savings. Each T1 based server is capable of replacing server machines running several multi-core processors whilst consuming less power which helps us make the delivery of our service more environmentally friendly.

"The UltraSPARC T1 chip is the most significant step forward in multi-core chip design we have seen. Ubiquity is pleased to deploy its industry leading SIP Application Server on the UltraSPARC T1 chipset. As a 100% Java solution, it benefits immensely from the unique multi-core architecture offered by UltraSPARC T1. The massive scalability and price/performance of this solution offers Network Equipment Vendors, Carriers and Internet Service Providers the most compact, reliable and performant system available in a power and space-saving two-inch square block.", said Michael Doyle, CTO of Ubiquity Software Corporation.

"Sun Fire CoolThreads servers with breakthrough CMT technology and the Solaris 10 Operating system is the right solution for applications to deliver significant performance boost quickly and cost investment protection and a low risk, cost effective and power/space efficient way to upgrade IT infrastructures." Zhangwei CTO & Vice President.

"Leveraging webMethods Fabric 6.5 enables our customers to fully automate and extend their critical business processes," said Marc Breissinger, vice president and Chief Architect, webMethods, Inc. "While this approach to computing delivers significant business benefits, it also necessitates a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure as the number of processes being managed and monitored increase exponentially. Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers running the Solaris 10 maximize application performance, providing our users with a highly efficient, agile solution that enhances business performance."

"While testing the Sun Fire T2000 systems we were tremendously impressed by the performance, which far exceeds anything we have seen on Xeon based PC servers. Our testing of the Sun Fire CoolThreads servers with ONE CPU revealed the same performance of prior generations of servers with 8 CPUS. This translates to an outstanding server consolidation proposition for our customers. What's even more impressive is the fact that our testing demonstrated outstanding compatibility and stability. No work was needed to port our application onto the new Sun Fire CoolThreads server platform, and we had no down time!" says Huang Xiaohua, Director & Senior Vice President, YgSoft.

"Blackboard is excited about Sun's third generation CoolThread servers based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. The doubling of thread processing capability of the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 servers, combined with the increased memory footprint, will enable Blackboard applications to significantly scale in performance in the same footprint and power envelope as the previous generation CoolThread servers. This increased performance efficiency will offer our customers a very compelling price/performance solution" says Steve Feldman, Senior Director of Performance Engineering and Architecture, Blackboard.

"Since the launch of the UltraSPARC T1 based CoolThread servers, Blackboard clients have received tremendous throughput performance from the T1000/T2000 systems. We are excited about the additional performance capabilities of the new UltraSPARC T2 based SPARC Enterprise servers. We believe the enhanced architecture of the UltraSPARC T2 combined with the memory, I/O and networking capabilites of the new servers, will be an excellent addition to the Sun/Blackboard Reference Architecture" says Steve Feldman, Senior Director of Performance Engineering and Architecture, Blackboard.

"When Sun introduced the T1 processor we were very impressed by the performance, which provided more Elluminate throughput by far than any other processor we had tested" said Mike Mabey, CTO, Elluminate.

"Kabira's extreme transaction processing architecture has been designed from inception to enable applications to fully exploit multi-threaded architecture based systems with very large number of threads. In our testing of the SPARC Enterprise T5240 with its support for 128 threads, we were extremely impressed with the throughput and scalability as demonstrated by our Kabira Charging application," said Chris Clabaugh, VP of Business Development at Kabira Technologies. "Our engineering and product teams were delighted to see superior processing scalability in test environments that surpassed that of other processor architectures running similar Kabira applications. We will be advising our customers and reselling partners that Kabira's extreme transaction processing applications can deliver even better scalability and impressive ROI when deployed on the new SPARC Enterprise T5240 platform."

"With this new generation of CMT servers, SUN is continuing to lead the world in providing the scalable infrastructure that is the bedrock of the today's commercial enterprise," said David Chalmers, Director of Business Development at Macro 4. "During our pre-launch testing, we have been able to show that the combination of our ultra-scalable document archiving and output management solutions with the new generation of SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology, based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, will lead the way in providing the overall document infrastructure that is being demanded by organizations looking to reduce their document management costs, improve their operational efficiency and reduce their environmental impact. We expect the combination to be a big success."

Sun Microsystems is a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the net work. Sun has a close partnership with Mformation. Mformation's device management solutions are optimized to run on Sun hardware and the Sun Solaris operating system. Sun and Mformation are jointly working on cutting edge hardware technologies such as Sun UltraSPARC T1/T2 based systems running Solaris 10.

"With these new Sun Fire systems, Sun is not only enabling Oracle's huge user base on UltraSPARC to maximize the performance of their applications and realize the significant cost savings benefits of this new multi-threaded platform, they're also creating a new market opportunity with a high-performance, low-cost deployment alternative for Oracle grid," said Charles Phillips, President, Oracle.

"Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, together with Oracle Database, achieved 2,000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). The Java Application Server was running on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server with a 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor. Oracle Database was running on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server with a 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor. Both were running on the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System."

"Our testing showed significant scaling and throughput improvement for database applications running with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database on Sun Microsystems' new SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 rackmount servers. These new systems, featuring the new powerful 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor, are ideal for deployment of concurrent multi-threaded applications using Oracle TimesTen" said Susan Cheung, Director TimesTen Product Management, Oracle Corporation.

"PTC and Sun customers continue to benefit from the Java Platform. By taking advantage of the massively threaded architecture, memory and network capabilities of Sun's UltraSPARC T2-based servers, PTC Windchill is now able to handle significantly more load than possible on the T2000 system," said Bill Neuman, PTC Director of Product Management.

Software AG is the global, independent leader in the business infrastructure software market. ADABAS, Software AG's highly reliable and performant database management solution, is part of the company's industry-leading product portfolio including best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes.

"Our customers rely on our throughput-oriented ADABAS database to comply with their time-sensitive business operations and workload requirements", says Uli Pleiss, Vice President ADABAS R&D at Software AG.

In a joint effort, Software AG and Sun have extensively benchmarked and tuned the ADABAS solution in the Sun Solution Center facilities in Scotland and Germany.

Whilst the single-socket SPARC Enterprise server T5120 already delivered ground-breaking throughput and scalability, the new generation T5140/T5240 dual-socket models achieve almost twice the performance with basically the same level of power consumption.

"Running on the new SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 servers powered by UltraSPARC T2 plus processors on Solaris OS, ADABAS delivered excellent performance and scalability results. Using technologies such as Logical Domains or Solaris 10 Containers,su our customers will be able to virtualize and then consolidate their database workloads to achieve higher scalability and a greater performance with less power and space", outlines Uli Pleiss.

A whitepaper containing all related key information about the benchmarking, performance and evaluation criteria will be released in a few weeks.

"We are excited to be teaming up with Sun to work towards supporting their next generation CoolThreads servers on the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/5220 with their truly innovative server design will provide Ubuntu users with tremendous power and system utilization alongside energy efficiency and savings."
-- Mark Murphy, global alliances manager at Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu

"The architecture of the UltraSPARC T2 processor and Sun's new SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers in combination with Wowza Media ServerT Pro software enable the highest performing Flash streaming server solution in the Universe," said David Stubenvoll, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Wowza Media Systems. "With 64 simultaneous threads and 10Gigbit Ethernet networking integrated directly onto the processor, Wowza Pro is the only Flash streaming software that can take maximum advantage of these servers. When added to the low space and power demands of the new Sun servers, Wowza Pro software will let our customers offer breakthrough Flash streaming services with higher performance at a lower cost than anything else out in the marketplace today."

"Sun are delivering Zeus Technology's best-of-breed Application Delivery Controller, ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager), deployed on Sun's latest CoolThreads technology, running Solaris 10, which forms an extremely powerful new combination", said David Day, VP Engineering, Zeus Technology. "The new offering represents an entirely new level of scalability and performance for traffic management systems. The combined Sun UltraSPARC T2 server and ZXTM software achieves remarkable performance - over 4.7 Gigabits per second HTTP throughput with approximately 30% server CPU utilization."