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Customer SuccessesWith solutions built on open standards, Sun can work with your existing infrastructure to help you build an agile, secure IT environment to meet your growing business needs.
Argonne National LaboratoryArgonne National Laboratory, in Argonne, Illinois, is operated by the University of Chicago and is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers and one of the worlds most comprehensive scientific institutes. Recognized for its excellence in connecting basic research to innovative technology, Argonne brings together many areas of science, engineering, and technology. Argonne was chartered in 1946 and today has approximately 3,000 employees, including about 1,000 scientists and engineers. Argonne's annual operating budget of nearly $500 million supports about 200 research projects, ranging from studies of the atomic nucleus to research on global climate change. Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies, as well as other organizations.
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IT managers share a lot of the same problems. Using Sun technology in
key parts of our organization has enabled us to focus on the things we
do which differentiate us from other IT shops. We spend more time on
strategic tasks.
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David Salbego, IT Infrastructure Manager, Argonne National Laboratory
Barwon HealthBarwon Health is the largest regional health service in the state of Victoria, Australia, providing care to more than 450,000 people. Health services available through Barwon Health cover the full spectrum from emergency and acute care to mental health, primary care, community services, aged care, and sub-acute care and rehabilitation. Barwon Health serves a geographically dispersed population and has an annual operating budget in excess of $275 million.
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As far as we are aware, the Advanced Clinical Computing environment
that we are rolling out is unique to Barwon Health, and proof of this
is the steady stream of visiting health care professionals and
government ministers who want to see this system in action.
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Dr. Charlie Corke, Director, Intensive Care Unit, Barwon Health
Chicago Board Options Exchange
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We gain many benefits from Sun technology and our relationship with its
staff. The move to Java and the Solaris OS has been instrumental in not
only ensuring strong performance in our IT environment, but also in the
sustained growth of our business. In my view, the code is portable, but
the relationship is not.
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Gerald T. OConnell, Executive Vice President and Chief Information
Officer, Chicago Board Options Exchange
Conemis AGGermany-based Conemis AG delivers software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructures for software vendors and enterprises. It comprises an international team of software engineers based in Karlsruhe, one of Europe's major IT centers. Conemis offers integrated technology and business solutions for distributed software architectures and developing markets.
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Sun solutions are among the best technologies in the world. They are
dependable, and the support is amazing.
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Charbel Noujeim, Managing Director, Conemis
Daimler AGDaimler AG, based in Germany, is a global manufacturer of passenger cars and is the largest producer of commercial vehicles in the world. The company has production facilities on five continents and employs 275,000 people worldwide.
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The server products were particularly convincing, especially because of
their well-designed heat management, Ultimately, our demands in this
regard are very high because of the density of the computers in the
server rooms. Favorable heat management provides a long hardware
service life.
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Dr. Volker Schwarz, Daimler AG team leader in the Aerodynamics and
Aeroacoustics Department
FortiusOnFortiusOne provides next-generation intelligent mapping services that make the Worlds geographic data accessible to everyone. GeoCommons is its public Internet site for creating, exploring and sharing intelligent maps. It enables users to visualize data on maps for learning, decision making and problem solving. Many business and government customers are implementing intelligent mapping applications with GeoCommons products and services, including the GeoCommons appliance.
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As a startup, cost was important, but our application requires intense
amounts of computation power. To be successful, we needed an
infrastructure solution that was reliable and scalable. Sun delivered
with an attractively priced platform that can handle our needs. The Sun
Fire X4500 server is the perfect package because it has the right CPUs,
the right amount of RAM and the right amount of storageall at a very
attractive price.
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Chris Ingrassia, Chief Technology Officer, FortiusOne
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated CircuitsFounded in 1985, Germanys Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) performs applied research and development for industry and public institutions. More than 13,000 institute researchers develop microelectronic systems and devices along with the required integrated circuits and software. The institute is recognized for its research programs in diverse fields such as microelectronics, information technology, telecommunications, audio and multimedia technology, satellite navigation, medical engineering, and mechanical and industrial automation. Familiar to music enthusiasts worldwide, the popular MP3 digital audio encoding format was developed and patented by Fraunhofer IIS.
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We only use the storage system for the render farm [cluster nodes] it
is perfect for this job. Sun tailored the array to our exact
requirements. The price/performance ratio couldn't be better.
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Dr. Siegfried Fel, Project Manager for Digital Cinema, Fraunhofer IIS
Gracenote
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Sun helps us deliver a scalable, reliable service that lets us sleep at
night because we know that we can rely on the stability and performance of
our Sun products.
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Matthew Leeds, Vice President of Operations, Gracenote
Government of NorwayNorway is one of the most connected populations in the world. Seven out of 10 households in Norway have access to the Internet, and 80% of these subscriptions are broadband connections. Norway has launched the eNorway initiative to enable 4.5 million citizens to conduct their affairs with government agencies through a secure, personalized portal interface.
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A key part of the success of this deployment has been the Sun Java
Enterprise Systems ease of integration.
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Stein Myrseth, Chief Architect, Software Innovation
Last.fmLast.fm is a free global music Web site that offers music fans millions of tracks in every genre for free on-demand and radio streaming. Its 25 million users worldwide can also share their music preferences by linking their media player to the Last.fm database. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs, artists, local concerts, and even introduce members to one another. The company is based in London and was acquired by CBS in May 2007.
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The Sun Blade T6320 server modules with their UltraSPARC T2 processor
technology could reduce the energy consumption on our Web-server pool
by 40%.
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Mike Brodbelt, Director of Technical Operations and Infrastructure,
Last.fm
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 24 million professionals from more than 150 industries worldwide. The LinkedIn site is dedicated to bringing people and businesses together to power careers and foster professional development.
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By using Sun products and Sun Professional Services for our solution,
we can scale horizontally, and we can scale vertically. And we don't
have to change one line of our software code to run dual-core,
quad-core, or sixteen-core machines or any other hardware that Sun
provides.
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Jean-Luc Vaillant, Chief Technology Officer, LinkedIn
ONEIS Technology
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The fact that we are a new business using enterprise-quality Sun
hardware, such as Sun Fire X4150 and Sun Fire X2100 M2 servers, is a
massive advantage giving us a great start in driving growth.
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Ben Summers, Technical Director, ONEIS
Practice-IT LtdPractice-IT provides companies with an affordable on-demand platform to help employees learn, explore, and perform through the convenience of a Web browser. The London-based company has developed Practice-Labs, which give trainees dedicated access to their own environment where they can gain real-world, hands-on experience and skills. Practice-IT has two employees.
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Buying our Sun Fire X4150 server was about establishing an on-going
business relationship and maximizing the performance of our virtualized
applications.
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Ricky Doyle, Director and Co-founder, Practice-IT
SISTICSISTIC has been providing innovative ticketing services since December 1991 and is now the largest ticketing services management company in Singapore. It sells tickets for about 90% of arts, entertainment, and sporting events in Singapore through a ticket distribution network that extends beyond the island state to countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. SISTIC offers its proprietary Web-based ticketing solution, STiX, to ticketing companies, event promoters, and venues in the Asia Pacific region under a licensing arrangement.
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Our ticketing operations depend heavily on having a stable ticketing
system that is resilient enough to handle large volumes of
transactions. Our experience in using Sun products has made us
confident in their reliability and stabilitycriteria that are key to
improving our service to customers.
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Shawn Quek, Head of IT, SISTIC
SAP University Competency CenterThe SAP University Competence Center (UCC) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was founded in 2003 with the support of Sun Microsystems and SAP AG, a leading provider of integrated enterprise software worldwide. UCC offers hosting services and provides support to universities that are members of the SAP Educational Alliance.
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After an operating period of two years, we can confirm that virtualization goes hand in hand with consolidation. We need less physical hardware and less energy than before, and we continue to use an environment with a stable response and good performance.
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Dr. Holger Wittges, Executive Director at SAP UCC, Technical University of Munich
Wikimedia Foundation
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The Sun solution provides ease of operations and maintenance,
scalability, and backup features like replication and snapshotting that
simplify our lives in a million ways. Additionally, its low cost, and
its open source so we can do any customizations and debugging we might
need. We are extremely happy with the performance of the Sun storage
and servers. Overall the solution is doing an awesome job.
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Brion Vibber, Chief Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Founded in 1973, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is the
largest of the seven options exchanges in the United States and has
been the leader in options trading volume since its inception 35 years
ago. The CBOE has been on a sustained growth path, as 2007 marked the
fourth consecutive year of record trading volume at the Exchange. For
the year, volume reached an all-time record high of 944.5 million
contracts, a 40 percent increase over 2006. CBOE trades options on more
than 2,200 individual stocks, 20 broad-based indices and 120 Exchange
Traded Funds (ETFs).
Gracenote is an established mobile technology leader that powers mobile
music services from the worlds leading handset manufacturers, including
Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. Headquartered in Emeryville,
California, Gracenote has offices in New York, New York; Tokyo, Japan;
Berlin, Germany; and Seoul, Korea.
ONEIS offers hosted information management services to small data-rich
consultancy companies. The London-based startup, owned and operated by
Ben Summers and Jennifer Smith, will formally launch in Q4 2008.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit charitable organization that
provides free, multilingual, online content through collaboratively
edited Web sites called wikis, among them its flagship project,
Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is based in San Francisco,
California, and has 23 full-time employees.
