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SUN EXTENDS SUN CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY TO COMPACTPCI FOR OEMS BUILDING HIGH AVAILABILITY PRODUCTSSUN EXTENDS SUN CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY TO COMPACTPCI FOR OEMS BUILDING HIGH AVAILABILITY PRODUCTSEnables Communication Equipment Providers and Carriers To Deploy Redundant Clustered ConfigurationsPALO ALTO, CA, -- February 22, 2000 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced that Sun Cluster 2.2 software has been extended to the SPARCengine CP1500 CompactPCI board. Sun Cluster 2.2 software for CompactPCI enables communication equipment providers to cost-effectively offer carriers extremely high levels of availability or "uptime" while retaining an open-systems based approach for rapidly adding capacity for new services. Sun Cluster 2.2 software for CompactPCI is being made available as part of Sun's CP2000 High Availability (HA) program (see February 23 press release, "Sun Microsystems Announces High Availability Program for Communication Equipment Providers"). Sun Cluster software offers deployment and automated management of redundant computing nodes so that in the event of hardware or software failure one node can take over from another with minimum interruption. "Previously, carriers had to employ teams of engineers to develop their HA systems," said Fred Rehhausser, head of the CompactPCI marketing group, Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics. "Using this standards-based product enables carriers to concentrate their resources on developing value-added applications and services." The basic technique used in Sun Cluster software to achieve high availability is "failover." The Sun Cluster software monitors both hardware and application, automating recovery if the hardware or software fails and re-starting applications on the healthy node. Sun Cluster 2.2 software administers these by automatically coordinating all the processes. It is designed to protect the integrity of the data and continuation of the services. Sun Cluster 2.2 software for CompactPCI tightly integrates Sun's high-performance CompactPCI SPARCengine CP family hardware with the Solaris Operating Environment. The software components offer telecommunications-specific HA management features, including the ability to restart and reconfigure without taking the system down. This particular implementation of high availability is aimed at applications for call processing data bases, as well as system management, maintenance and configuration. A typical Sun Cluster configuration for a high availability CompactPCI configuration consists of two shelves, each containing a SPARCengine CP1500 board, and a dual channel SCSI, dual Ethernet board, running the Solaris Operating Environment. Redundant disk subsystems comprising the cluster are connected to both shelves as well as redundant Ethernet connections serving as communication control paths. Details of this configuration as well as the conditions and terms to purchase the clustering package are available on Sun's Web site at: www.sun.com/microelectronics. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network is The Computer™ -- has propelled Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $13 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
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