The world's largest photo-blogging community—and the 18th most trafficked Internet site overall—uses Sun systems to manage 100% annual growth and achieve 3x performance improvement.
“Everything we do — every product feature we add and every optimization — comes from listening to our customers and trying to figure out what they're really trying to tell us. So it's refreshing to talk to a company like Sun that seems to be doing some of those same things. When I have a request or a complaint or a compliment, somebody at Sun is listening to me.”
Messaging services innovator achieved 4.5x higher performance, 2x headroom improvements, 83% less power use, and 10x better price/performance—while reducing storage administration from weeks to hours for their MySQL infrastructure.
2007 Gold Medal Winner
SearchDataCenter.com selects the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers as the 2007 Gold Medal winner for the server category.
Lab Test: Sun's X4150 Shows the Beef InfoWorld, May 23, 2008
“The sql-bench tests were run on identical MySQL 5.0.22 database servers. The X4150 took just under 12 minutes less to conduct the full range of tests when compared to the Dell 2950—just 678 seconds compared to 1,394 seconds for the Dell... Thus, the X4150 immediately proved its worth in database applications.”
Sun ZFS: Best File System
Read about this "amazingly well thought-out and nicely implemented solution."
PC Magazine
"Sun has kept its new [X4150] in a 1U enclosure but has sacrificed absolutely nothing... building a box capable of competing with servers twice its size. The Sun box would have blown the doors off anything else here."
