Sun's Place for Small and Medium Businesses

Media and Entertainment, Media & Publishing
A Japanese mobile media company building a new datacenter to accommodate future growth, switched from commodity Intel-based servers to a high-performance architecture based on multi-threaded, energy-efficient Sun Fire servers using CoolThreads technology. Its overhead costs are expected to drop up to 30 percent, while its capacity has nearly doubled—all with much lower maintenance needs.

Communications, Converged Digital Media
ISP launched new self-service Web portal using Sun Fire servers running Solaris 10 Operating System. The company improved server capacity, while reducing its datacenter footprint by 40% and saving 30% on server power consumption.

Media and Entertainment, Media & Publishing
The widely popular Internet relationship service switched to Sun X64 servers for phenomenal Web site performance improvements and power savings.

Technology
This Internet start-up uses Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek products to bring mapping applications into a new realm for both fun and profit. The Sun Startup Essentials program helped the company build its business on Sun, providing the right solutions at very attractive pricing.

Media and Entertainment, Internet Services
The world’s largest photo-blogging community has used the Sun Fire V210 server and the Sun Fire T1000 server with the Solaris 10 Operating System and CoolThreads server technology to support three times as many users and four times the number of concurrent threads with no additional hardware.

Technology
Global System Services Corporation (GSS) was running out of space and running up big cooling and power bills. A virtualization solution using VMware running on a Sun Fire X4200 server replaced 10 Intel machines, a 10:1 consolidation ratio. Now, GSS can provision a new environment in minutes, not days, and rapidly recover a corrupted server.

Media and Entertainment, Music
This mobile technology leader sought a fast, reliable and highly scalable server and operating system platform to help listeners get the information they need about the music on their digital devices. With Sun x64 servers using AMD Opteron processor-based servers and blades, Sun Fire X4500 server and Solaris 10 OS, the company handles 2 billion queries per month.

Technology
Needing a highly scalable infrastructure that would help lower costs, Joyent decided on servers based on Sun’s CoolThreads technology, designed to minimize power, cooling and space costs while helping to make online service more affordable to clients.

Media and Entertainment, Internet Services
Mansion solved its issues of power, space and performance by replacing its x86 servers running Linux and Windows with the new Sun Fire T2000 servers.

Technology
The international application hosting company deployed a virtualization platform based on Sun Blade servers to provision solutions faster and bring new services to market.

Energy, Utilities
Ventyx migrated its grid computing infrastructure to Sun Fire x64 servers running Solaris, and deployed Sun Java Workstations for state-of-the-art software development.

Media and Entertainment, Internet Services
Peerflix, a fast-growing Web 2.0 company, needed to overhaul its Web site to provide a better user experience and handle a surge in traffic. Sun provided an end-to-end solution, including both open source and proprietary technology, that helped increase membership and improve reliability.

Media and Entertainment, Internet Services
To turn a game-changing idea into a viable product, this startup turned to the Solaris 10 Operating System running on Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology—the Sun Fire T1000 for development and the Sun Fire T2000 for a “lean and mean” production environment. With this platform, the company achieved 10,000 matches per second per thread throughput and saved 50 cents on the dollar in deployment costs.

Media and Entertainment, Cable & Satellite, Internet Services
To build the Web services and storage infrastructure it needed to achieve dominance in the search engine marketing sector, SearchForce turned to the Sun Startup Essentials program which enabled it to upgrade from Dell and Linux to an enterprise class Sun architecture. With Sun Fire servers, the Solaris 10 OS and Sun StorageTek arrays, SearchForce has tripled throughput and enhanced its storage environment.

Media and Entertainment, Internet Services
To scale to the technology and business demands of rapid growth, Siteworx chose to leverage the Solaris 10 Operating System’s virtualization capabilities and increase the capacity of its Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers. Results include a reduced rack footprint and lower operational costs.

Technology
Small, growing online photo-sharing company needed to cut Web site downtime for customers while making the site faster. The company recently implemented Sun server technology, which has helped boost the site's speed and reliability. The organization also has a technology partner that fits well with its business goals.