Perspectives
As of January 2009, Sun has run more Unicode benchmarks than any other vendor. Eighty percent of the posted Unicode benchmarks were run by Sun. HP and IBM have not run a single Unicode benchmark.
Sun Blade Servers
High-performance systems designed to handle large workloads in a small footprint
Sun Blade servers play an integral role in your SAP environment. These systems deliver fast performance, easy scalability, energy efficiency, and longevity. Sun Blade systems support your choice of architectures: UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processors, Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows, and VMware in a single common chassis.
Running SAP applications on Sun Blade Systems can help you make the most of your SAP infrastructure. The open architecture of the Sun Blade systems platform can help you respond quickly to changing business needs, with greater flexibility to expand your SAP infrastructure.
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Sun x64 Servers
Performance, density, scalability, and energy efficiency with lower costs and complexity
Sun and SAP offer an economical enterprise-class alternative. SAP supports SAP Business Suite on Solaris 10 OS for x64 platforms. Combining the scalable Solaris 10 OS and Sun's powerful, energy-efficient Intel and AMD processor-based systems creates a mission-critical platform that can cost-effectively deliver manageability, flexibility, security, and reliability.
Solution Brief — SAP on Sun's AMD processor-based systems
Solution Brief — SAP on Sun's Intel processor-based systems
Leveraging the Power of Solaris 10 on Intel Xeon Processors for SAP Solutions
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Benchmarks and News
Sun Fire X4270 server delivers highest two-processor result on two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark with Enhancement Pack 4.
Operating Systems
SAP supports the Solaris OS, Windows OS, and Linux on Sun platforms.
Desktops
Sun offers the ability to manage desktops and updates centrally, avoiding the high costs of traditional distributed desktops in SAP environments. Applications and data are hosted in the datacenter — secure and protected. You can provision new users in minutes, and they can access applications running on multiple platforms from a single device. Use your existing PC's and thin clients or deploy Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients for a completely stateless computing experience.
- SAP Education Center improves service with Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software and Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients
- Sun Secure Global Desktop software provides secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX/Linux, Mainframe and Midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Solaris OS Workstations, thin clients and more.
- Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software 2.0 elivers access to a highly secure, resilient and available virtual desktop environment on a wide variety of client devices, from traditional PCs to Sun Ray virtual display clients.
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CoolThreads Technology-based Servers
Advanced, built-in virtualization technology delivers the flexibility of 256 virtual systems on a single servers
Sun's CoolThreads technology-based server line delivers exceptional throughput for SAP applications, helping you deliver enterprise computing solutions with breakthrough performance.
Solution Brief — SAPon Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server
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Mid-to-high-end Servers
Compute density backed by enterprise-class features, mainframe-class RAS, and more
Solaris OS running on SPARC servers brings mainframe-class availability and partitioning to the open systems market. Ideal for simplifying your SAP environment — whether you're a small, medium, or large-sized company. You can take advantage of affordable virtualization and consolidation, Web tier environments, smaller databases, and large-scale enterprise applications alike.
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Storage
Sun offers a full portfolio of storage products for SAP solutions to help you decrease TCO and complexity while protecting your valuable SAP data.
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Databases
SAP supports the following databases running on Sun platforms
- MaxDB
- Oracle
- And most recently, DB2 on Solaris for SPARC and x64 platforms
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