Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
Sun SPARC Enterprise ServersSun's select Independent Software Vendors provide key components across the software stack to customize and optimize Sun SPARC Enterprise servers. "The combination of Acquia Drupal with Sun's MySQL database system, SAMP platform, and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides an ideal environment for social publishing solutions." Bryan House, Director Product Marketing, Acquia Ariba"As the leading provider of Spend Management solutions, Ariba helps companies analyze, understand, and manage their corporate spending to achieve increased cost savings and business process efficiency. Our enterprise customers demand powerful, reliable server platforms on which to run Ariba applications. The new quad socket Sun server with CoolThreads will provide a compelling Price/Performance solution for our customers." Ronnie Fong, Performance QA Manager, Ariba ATG"ATG's e-commerce suite powers some of the world's largest shopping sites. Our customers rely on our solution to handle millions of visits a day and deliver personalized online shopping experiences to tens of thousands of concurrent users, so it's critical that the servers underlying the ATG applications are reliable, high-performing and highly-scalable. Many of these customers rely on Sun's CMT line of servers to run mission critical e-commerce applications and we are confident that Sun's new quad-core T5440 server will continue to meet their needs and offer more processing power to handle their growth and increasing use of rich media." Drew Reynolds, Senior Vice President, ATG "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." "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 capabilities of the new servers, will be an excellent addition to the Sun/Blackboard Reference Architecture." Steve Feldman, Senior Director of Performance Engineering and Architecture, Blackboard Digisoft TV"Digisoft.tv is a leading global provider of carrier class solutions to the IPTV and Media & Entertainment markets. Our DigiHost Service Delivery Platform empowers IPTV operators to captivate and attract customers by providing compelling revenue generating live and on-demand video, interactive services and applications. With the requirements to be streaming thousands of channels to users simultaneously we're confident that the new Sun T5440 server with 256 threads has the processing power demanded by the Digihost platform." John Allen, CEO, Digisoft TV Eagle Investment Systems LLCEagle Investment Systems, a global leader in providing high quality data management solutions to the financial industry, has seen significant scaling and performance on Sun's generation of CoolThreads servers. Eagle has made a strategic decision to deploy Logical Domains (LDoms) on the new quad socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 which offers the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor with 256 threads and 1/2TB of memory. "By leveraging Sun, we have consolidated our data center footprint which has reduced expenses and increased our server utilization, while offering greater flexibility to our end users. The ROI is very compelling." Mike Fitzgerald, Head of Information Services, Eagle Investment Systems LLC "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." Mike Mabey, CTO, Elluminate ELO Digital Office develops and markets high performance products and solutions for electronic documentation management, digital archiving, and workflow and Web content management for midsize and large enterprises worldwide. "The latest release of our application ELOenterprise has been delivering an outstanding performance to full satisfaction of our customers. Therefore, based on the experience with earlier generation of Sun's CoolThreads server, we are certain that with its new T5440 server Sun will continue its journey towards a new definition of mid-range computing: scalability and reliability of traditional closed mid-range systems paired with breakthrough performance, eco efficiency and cost effectiveness of Sun's proven open-source CMT architecture." Andreas Schulz, Head of International Product Management, ELO Digital Office "JDA's Enterprise Supply Chain Architecture and business solutions provide unmatched performance and scalability for supply chain optimization using industry-leading grid computing technology. Sun's new quad-core T5440 server delivers outstanding performance for these mission critical applications across thousands of users. Combining JDA's Enterprise Architecture and Sun's CoolThread server redefines the price/performance of mid-range computing, allowing customers to further improve cost-per-calculation and to achieve a stronger ROI." Namita Dhallan, GVP, Software Group, JDA "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. 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." Chris Clabaugh, VP of Business Development, Kabira Technologies Kronos Incorporated"For large global enterprises, Kronos offers a comprehensive workforce management solution that can support hundreds of thousands of employees. Such large implementations demand powerful server platforms capable of handling thousands of transactions per minute. Kronos customers will benefit from the throughput of the quad socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with 32 cores/256 threads, and appreciate the lower total cost of ownership of this server." Dan Nottingham, Marketing Manager, Kronos Incorporated "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. 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." David Chalmers, Director of Business Development, Macro 4 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. "MySQL users need to ensure that their infrastructures can scale with maximum throughput while using less power and space requirements in order to continually meet the growing demand for Web Services implementations. With the addition of Sun's virtualization technologies, CMT technology can help our customers make their MySQL database infrastructure a dynamic environment that addresses the Web's ever-changing needs in the most efficient and cost-effective ways." Robin Schumacher, Director of Product Management, Database Group, Sun Microsystems "Openwave Integra provides an open interface platform designed to flexibly address the market's need for fast, open and secure service management. Our recent test of Integra on UltraSPARC T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor-based systems showed excellent performance and scalability. Customers can reap significant benefits from using LDoms on these CoolThreads servers, resulting in huge savings by reducing the number of additional systems, and lowering power consumption and space requirements. We're looking forward to the new quad socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440, which could provide additional performance with capacity to support twice the number of LDoms thus providing excellent Price/Performance for our customers." Sean MacNeill, Vice President and General Manager, Services Management and Global Services, Openwave "With these new Sun 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." 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." Susan Cheung, Director TimesTen Product Management, Oracle "Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM), a fully convergent real-time enterprise revenue management application, showed excellent throughput, performance and scalability on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus based servers. Customers using Oracle's BRM solution require very high throughput in order to rate and process massive amounts of usage events, and to efficiently bill millions of subscribers. We are very excited about the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers. They will enable Oracle's customers to scale their systems, consolidate applications and databases, all while consuming less energy and space." Tony Velcich, Director, Product Management, Oracle Communications "The new quad-socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running the Solaris OS has proven itself to be an outstanding midrange server platform for the most demanding Siebel implementations. Achieving a world record with 14,000 Siebel benchmark users on the Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance Program benchmark is a clear indicator Oracle Siebel CRM customers will benefit from the performance, scalability, energy and space efficiency of this new CMT platform." Masayuki Karahashi, Vice President, Oracle Siebel CRM Applications Orchard Information Systems Ltd"Orchard's arcHouse Plus application is designed to provide a scalable, available and responsive solution in a busy and demanding marketplace. To assist in achieving those goals Orchard uses and recommends Sun's CMT server family. Orchard has used T2000 and T5220 with great success providing development, UAT and Load testing environments. The architecture of Orchard's arcHouse Plus solution is supported very ably by Sun's Java Application Server and Sun CMT servers. These servers coupled with Sun's virtualization solutions, LDOMs and Solaris Containers, have provided Orchard and its customers with a very flexible, responsive and scaleable solution. We have followed the evolution of the CMT architecture with great interest and look forward to the arrival of the T5440 quad-socket CMT server from Sun, we believe this will provide a compelling price/performance argument for those looking to virtualise their demanding infrastructure." Paul Crennell, Technical Manager, Orchard Information Systems Ltd. PegasystemsPegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, helps organizations achieve new levels of agility and become more competitive. "Our customer base depends on Pegasystems to help them drive processes and efficiencies across their organizations. Such mission-critical implementations demand scalable processing power, especially with our cloud-enabled BPM Platform-as-a-Service. Our Autonomic Event Services product is also a good fit with the T5440's support for system self-healing, and based on our prior experience with earlier generations of Sun's CoolThreads line of servers, we are confident that the new Sun T5440 server will deliver performance levels needed by our customers." Mark Replogle, Vice President, Component Engineering, Pegasystems Pervasive"Pervasive DataRush(tm) is designed for developing highly parallelized multithreaded applications that easily scale across multiple cores to enable rapid, in-depth analytics on massive amounts of data, including historical transactions and events. Customers can take advantage of the quad-socket Sun SPARC T2 Enterprise T5440 server with 32 cores/256 threads and the Pervasive DataRush engine and library to crunch huge volumes of data quickly by simultaneously harnessing a large number of threads. Our benchmark tests using Pervasive DataRush to run k-means and edit distance algorithms on a Sun SPARC T2 Enterprise T5440 showed exciting scalability, delivering high throughput while consuming low energy in a 4U rack space." Mike Hoskins, Software CTO, Pervasive "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." Bill Neuman, Director of Product Management, PTC SAP AG."We have great confidence in Sun technologies and Sun's vision to continue to address customers' needs. With new market demands, businesses must find ways to leverage technology advancements while streamlining budgets. The combination of SAP's software product portfolio used together with Sun's next-generation, mid-range server will provide customers cost-effective, breakthrough performance and lower energy consumption with greater flexibility." S. Singh Mecker, Senior Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. "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." Craig Rubendall, Director of Research & Development, SAS 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." Uli Pleiss, Vice President ADABAS R&D, 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, 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." Uli Pleiss, Vice President ADABAS R&D, Software AG "The partnership between SugarCRM and Sun Microsystems demonstrates how companies can achieve massive scalability by using Sun Sparc Enterprise T5440 with Logical Domains in combination with SugarCRM and MySQL." Yun-Ping Hsu, Vice President of Engineering, SugarCRM "Sybase is one of Sun's longest-running partners, with a strong relationship built over more than 20 years. The Sybase IQ analytics server has set the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Data Warehouse on a Sun server. Sybase's ASE Cluster Edition features patent-pending Virtualized Resource Management (VRM) technology that can take advantage of the multicore power of the new T5440 CoolThreads server with its quad-core, 256 thread architecture, enabling IT departments to operate multiple applications on one installation. Based on our experience and usage of earlier Sun CMT servers, we are confident that organizations relying on Sybase for critical database and data warehouse applications will find the T5440 server a scalable and cost-effective platform." Sumit Kundu, Sr. Director of Product Management, Sybase For 25 years, Symantec has been enabling people to have confidence in their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance. "The SPARC Enterprise servers announced today demonstrate the continuing innovation of the SPARC/Solaris platform architecture." Ted Stinson, Senior Director, Strategic Operations, Symantec Data Center Management Group "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. 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." Matt Hartwell-Herrero, Group Product Manager, Symantec Messaging Security Swisscom IT Services: We are a leading Swiss IT services provider. Our core business encompasses the integration and operation of complex IT infrastructures, as complete and partial outsourcing projects. We also have proven knowledge of the industry, particularly in telecommunications, the financial sector, the healthcare industry and the area of public administration. "Swisscom IT Services has successfully beta tested the new Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 system and we are convinced that it delivers outstanding performance and reliability for our mission-critical infrastructure." Men Beglinger, Swisscom IT Services, Swisscom IT Services TeamQuest"TeamQuest Performance Software solutions are focused on IT Service Optimization (ITSO). The latest release collects necessary information to perform capacity modeling of Sun's CMT-based servers. With our new release, customers can analyze the system requirements and resulting savings of moving from legacy and other open operating system/hardware platforms to the newest multi socket Sun servers. We look forward to helping customers gain maximum value from Sun's CMT server line." Joe Rich, Director of Strategic Alliances, TeamQuest The 3rd Degree"The 3rd Degree's mobile engagement platform allows our enterprise and mobile network clients to run sophisticated customer interaction campaigns such as market research, mobile forms and interactive channels via SMS, WAP and .mobi. Our load profile is a difficult balancing act, between high volumes of small transactions and more compute intensive reporting, but both need to be real time. Carrier grade reliability and security are a given. Sun has matured its CMT architecture so that it can support load profiles of both the message processing and the reporting side. We use 5220's to run Glassfish clusters across Solaris 10 Zones to great effect and expect the new quad socket T5440 to deliver more efficiency and cost savings by enabling the same capability on our db tier." Phil Martin, Managing Director, The 3rd Degree "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. 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." David Stubenvoll, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Wowza Media Systems "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. 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." David Day, VP Engineering, Zeus Technology
SPARC Enterprise Servers with their specific models T1000, T2000, T5120, T5220, T5140, T5240, T5440, M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 are the result of the Sun and Fujitsu joint co-operation. SPARC Enterprise Servers are sold and marketed from Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Technology Solutions under the respective company brands but are technically and functionally completely identical in construction and therefore 100% compatible in hardware and firmware.
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