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Press Releases

Sun Systems, Storage Technologies Chosen to Support AT&T U-verse TV

Sun Microsystems, Jul 11, 2007
Sun Microsystems has announced that AT&T Inc. will utilize Sun servers and modular arrays to help deliver the groundbreaking Internet Protocol (IP)-based video service, AT&T U-verse TV.

Greenplum Expands Relationships with Unica, Kinetic Networks and Sun Microsystems to Introduce Breakthrough Web Analytics Solutions

Greenplum, Jul 19, 2007
Greenplum, the leading provider of open-source database software for business intelligence, today announced expanded alliances with Unica, Kinetic Networks and Sun Microsystems to deliver the first turnkey data warehouse appliance from a tier-1 systems vendor to include integrated web analytics capabilities.

Sun Launches New Video Delivery Over IP Platform With Highest Video Streaming Throughput in the Industry

Sun Microsystems, Apr 26, 2007
Nortel Joins Sun for System Unveiling at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

ipConfigure Works with Sun to Bring Scalable Video Surveillance Solution to the Enterprise

ipConfigure, Apr 16, 2007
The Sun Fire X4500 Server and ipConfigure ESM Software deliver the most capable Network Video surveillance Server in the Security Industry.

Sun Boxes Up Telco Data For EU

Sun Microsystems, Jun 07, 2007
Press Release issued by Sun, announcing the Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS) appliance including the SF X4500 and Copper Eye Live Archive software


White Papers

Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage

IDC, Dec 01, 2006
With its new Sun Fire X4500 product, Sun has designed and produced a devise that combines the attributes of server and storage products for the purpose of improving processing efficiency and time to results for a range of technical and commercial workloads.

Sun Fire x64 Servers Helping Organizations Get Ahead, and Stay Ahead Whitepaper

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Aug 01, 2006
Now more than ever before, organizations are striving to align IT services with business goals and gain competitive advantage. When deploying x64 servers in the data center, IT organizations expect not only excellent value, but also the kind of reliability, security, and agility needed for an enterprise-class IT infrastructure.

Sun Fire X4500 Technical Architecture White Paper

Sun Microsystems, Jun 01, 2006
Sun Fire X4500 Technical Architecture White Paper Sun is changing the landscape by introducing the first and only data server that combines a 4-way server with 24TB of data storage in a single integrated system. By integrating server and storage together complexity is dramatically reduced while the incredible storage density allows data center managers to reclaim valuable floor space.


Testimonials

"The Sun Fire X4500 server is proof that careful, clever engineering will result in a solution that has never before been achieved. We consider the Sun Fire X4500 server to be the result of genius-level ingenuity on the part of Sun." Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, Head of Research Infrastructure, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology

"The Sun Fire X4500 server combined with the Solaris 10 ZFS file system is designed with SAS SPDS (Scalable Performance Data Server) in mind. The price-performance to storage density ratio (less than $2/GB) will be very desirable to SAS/Sun customers." Paul Kent, Vice President, Platform Research and Development, SAS

"The Sun Fire x4500 server, with its performance and large storage capacity running Solaris 10 and ZFS, is an ideal platform for the StorBee File Archive product. The combination of the StorBee automated features and the secure low cost Sun server makes it an all-in-one solution for optimizing storage for customers, as the first step towards a full archiving policy." Jean Pierre Adi, Product Marketing, Hi-Stor Technologies


Reviews

Sun Fire X4500 server crams 48 drives into 4U

Infoworld, Jun 07, 2007
The Sun Fire X4500, nicknamed Thumper, is exactly that: a dual-Opteron server with 48 hot-swappable SATA drives in a single 4U chassis, achieving a raw total of 24TB with 500GB SATA drives. You could fit the entire catalog of the Library of Congress on a single X4500 - 2.5 times over. Armed with four gigabit NICs, 4GB of RAM, and a default installation of Solaris x86, the X4500 is a server in a class all its own.

Sun Fire Server Packs Storage Punch

eWeek, Nov 06, 2006
Outfitted with a pair of dual-core Opteron CPUs and 24TB of raw storage in a compact 4U (7-inch) footprint, Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire X4500 packs an impressive processing and storage punch.


Sun Net Talk

Sun Fire X4500: The First and Only Hybrid Data Server

May 30, 2007
The Sun Fire X4500 Server, also known as Thumper, is the industry's first and only integration of a server and high density storage into a single system. In this Net Talk Webcast, learn how this hybrid approach translates into key operational advantages and benefits.


Customer Success Stories

Gracenote

Sun Microsystems, Jan 01, 2008
Sun x64 AMD Opteron Processor-based Platform and Solaris 10 OS Play Music to the Ear, Handling 2 Billion Queries per Month

COLT Telecom Group Limited

Sun Microsystems, Nov 26, 2007
Leveraging Sun to Deliver New Utility Services That Reduce Operational Costs by Up to 33 Percent

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

Sun Microsystems, Nov 26, 2007
Delivering Teraflops of HPC Power for Arctic Research with Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server and Sun Fire X4600 Server

Getting Twice the Capacity and Lower Overhead Costs with Sun Fire CoolThreads Servers And the Solaris 10 Operating System

Sun Microsystems, Nov 20, 2007
C.A. Mobile, based in Tokyo, Japan, offers media services for mobile phones, including e-commerce solutions, ringtones and games, and advertising creation and placement.

Taking Mapping Applications to a Whole New Realm Based on Sun Infrastructure

Sun Microsystems, Oct 26, 2007
FortiusOne is using a Sun solution that includes x64- and UltraSPARC-based servers with Linux, as well as a Sun disk array to run the intelligent mapping algorithms and databases. It is using an x64-based server as OEM hardware for the commercial intelligent mapping appliance.

New Web-based Service Gains 30 % Faster Performance and 45% Reduction in Hosting Costs By Moving from Linux to Solaris10 and Sun

Sun Microsystems, Oct 11, 2007
Postful deployed Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun hardware and services to implement an integrated print and mail utility service for the Web

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