Tuesday April 15, 2008
Tuesday April 15, 2008 | With help
from Sun
Professional Services, leading Korean manufacturer LG Micron
successfully deployed a six-node high-availability cluster of servers
using high-performance Sun
UltraSPARC IV+ processors. The Sun Cluster solution provides 24x7
business continuity for the Oracle database and ERP applications. Sun delivered the solution using LG Micron's existing IT assets and helped it maximize operational productivity. The solution is the first six-node cluster implementation in Asia and the first deployment in South Korea to use Solaris Volume Manager to mirror data to a remote site to enhance disaster recovery. Heechang Park, CFO/CIO of LG Micron, commented: "We tried to provide non-stop IT service by leveraging old systems in order to minimize IT investment and established a cluster system in order to minimize any possible risks. Moreover, LG Micron established business continuity from a server/storage HA project. Previously, we assume that we wasted 1 million a year at the production line due to system failures and service stops. However, our IT system now provides non-stop service through standby-system configuration, and we secured our ROI for this project." Check out the details here. |
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Monday April 07, 2008 | The digital
media company Elektrofilm chose
Sun's SL3000
tape library to store its
nearly 200 TB of archival data, with the capacity to grow to 750 TB.
According to Electrofilm's Jason Williamson, the amount of data in his environment makes storing it all on disk impractical. "The cost of tape media is about 30 cents per GB, while with a SAN, the total cost can add up to tens of dollars a gigabyte," he said. |
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Sun's SAM-FS software helps Jason improve data access time on tape by keeping track of the data on each cartridge and automatically retrieving it from the tape library when it's needed. The combined solution works perfect for Electrofilm!
Get the full details from this SearchStorage.com article.
Wednesday April 02, 2008 | Cincinnati
Bell is finding
that desktop virtualization is a far better alternative
to upgrading hundreds of PCs running Windows. The company is in the first phase of its desktop virtualization rollout based on VMware Infrastructure 3 and our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). With about 3,300 computer-using employees, the company will convert one-fourth of them to use virtual desktops in the initial effort. |
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Cincinnati Bell turned to Sun because Sun VDI is a great solution designed to work on top of VMware Infrastructure 3, which Cincinnati Bell already had installed. In addition, it offers a choice of end-user interfaces.
Check out the complete details from the InformationWeek article.
Tuesday March 25, 2008 | Software-as-a-Service
vendor Callidus
Software was able to launch a new subscription business in 5 months
and grow a subscriber base from 0 to 25,000 in 18 months with a
combination of Sun Fire
servers running the Solaris
10 Operating System and with significant support from Sun
Managed Services. "Sun was the most cost-effective solution," said Callidus' Jeff Saling, "but what really swung the deal was Sun's willingness to partner with us as we designed the environment for Callidus OnDemand." Check out the details here. |
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Monday March 17, 2008 | The
University of Wisconsin-Madison more than doubled compute power per
square foot of datacenter floor space while increasing the compute
power per CPU by replacing its legacy rack servers with Sun Blade 6000
servers. "Everything about the Sun Blade 6000 system was just extremely easy and simpler than any product we've dealt with before," said David Parter, Associate Director of the University's Computer Systems Lab. "Anything that simplifies our physical management, inventory management, or even debugging and diagnosing node failures is a huge win for us." Get the details here. |
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Monday March 10, 2008 | Media giant
Scripps Networks easily responds to massive, unpredictable peaks in
demand serving up to 300 million revenue-generating ads per day, by
deploying Sun Fire T2000 and X4600 M2 servers running the Solaris Operating System.
Because Scripps Networks uses a consistent Sun
platform, it is able to run this large IT operation with a small staff
consisting of just 1 administrator for each 50 systems. According to their Executive Director of Enterprise IT Operations, Bryan Allen, "The Sun platform has been a stable, consistent and reliable platform for us, with good performance and scalability. We are always responding to new requirements as we continue to push the envelope on the Internet. Sun's support has been very valuable in helping us meet day-to-day requirements, as well as new and unique ones." Check out the details here. |
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Tuesday March 04, 2008 | Healthcare
provider Denver Health enabled
its workers to reduce their initial
login time by more than half, cut desktop setup time from 1 hour to
just 10 minutes and gained the ability to increase the number of
patient sessions by more than 1,000 per year by moving from a PC
environment to a deployment of Sun Ray 2 Clients
and Sun Ray
Software
running on the Solaris 10
Operating System. According to their Chief Technical Officer Jeff Pelot, "Denver Health's implementation of the Sun Ray technology is saving our organization time and money. In addition, doctors and nurses are using it without further training. We install it and they use it immediately." |
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A lot of customers are using the Sun Ray thin clients these days...
Monday March 03, 2008 | The United
States Army developed an online web-based Career Record system
supporting 600,000 active members by deploying a variety of Sun
Fire
and Sun
SPARC Enterprise servers running the Solaris 10 Operating
System and Solaris Cluster. What had previously been a manual process that took weeks, soldier's time to access their official personnel file was reduced to minutes. The deployment saved hundreds of thousands of support staff hours and achieved a 99.9% server uptime, exceeding its customer Service Level Agreement. Check out the details here. |
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Monday February 25, 2008 | Kuwait's
Savings and Credit Bank (SCB) is the first financial institution in
that country to roll out a large scale deployment of Sun
Ray thin clients, as a part of a wide ranging effort to centralize
its desktop operations and support. SCB has seen a dramatic reduction
in the volume of support calls, from nearly 30 a day to close to zero
at present. "Performance has increased more than 200 times. A job which previously took more than two or three hours now takes four to five minutes. Even, backup which would take two hours previously, now takes just 20 minutes. It's a big difference," concludes SCB's Fawzi Al Asfoor. Check out the complete ITP.net story here... |
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Monday February 18, 2008 | Sun has
been awarded the framework contract to supply approximately 1,100
servers to the European
Commission institutions, bodies and
agencies participating in the open call for proposals. The EC said
contract was awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous
tender in terms of price and quality. Check out the details here. |
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Monday February 11, 2008 | Web search
engine marketing software provider SearchForce
saw a 70% reduction in
power consumption, at the same time achieving a 3x increase in server
throughput and... ALL with a lower total cost of ownership by replacing
its Dell and Linux environment with an infrastructure of Sun Fire
servers running the Solaris
10 Operating System and StorageTek
systems. SearchForce migrated to the Sun environment through
Sun's Startup
Essentials and Try and Buy
programs. |
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According to David Simon, Chairman of SearchForce, "As a result of going to Sun, we improved our response time and we're sitting at less than ten percent system utilization with five times the business we had nine months ago. We have a scalable server and storage platform that can provide air cover for our sales team, and reports we get from our enterprise customers say that there's nothing faster out there."
Check out the details here.
Saturday February 02, 2008 Corporate Express... YOUR office supply retailer!!!
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increased productivity by automating manual processes and increased
flexibility by enabling employees and maintenance suppliers to work
remotely with the implementation of Sun Secure
Global Desktop software
supported by Sun
Fire servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System... According to Christian Bukisow, IT Manager of Corporate Express, "Through its simplicity, the Sun Secure Global Desktop solution responded perfectly to our needs. Our sales agents only need to enter their user names and passwords to connect to their applications. This is a major step forward for our company, considering the fact that some of our agents had never used a computer." |
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Tuesday January 29, 2008 | Today we
announced
new customers for Sun Modular
Datacenter S20, widely known as
Project Blackbox.
These new implementations for Hansen Transmissions,
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN), Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) and a second unit at
the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) highlight the global demand
for Project Blackbox -- a virtualized,
modular datacenter housed in an enhanced 20-foot shipping container. "We have found that it has broad applicability," notes Sun VP for Integrated Platforms Darlene Yaplee. "We have seen different examples of customers using the data center in different ways. It's not just one segment. What we are hearing from our customers is that many of them are growing out of their current data center space and they are looking for a high density solution that is eco-efficient." Need one? Contact Sun. |
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Monday January 28, 2008 | Media
services company Elektrofilm Digital Studios and sister company eMedia
are able to effectively manage 750 terabytes of data it expects to
scale to 1.5 petabytes in the coming year, while lowering its total
cost of ownership, using a tiered storage and content lifecycle
management consisting of Sun StorageTek software and a variety of Sun
StorageTek systems. It also deployed a variety of Sun Fire servers
running the Solaris 10 Operating
System. |
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According to Chip Aycock, COO of eMedia Systems, "Digital media management of this scale has until recently been prohibitively expensive. Additionally, the complexity of the enabling software and infrastructure has acted as a barrier to the successful commercial implementation of our vision - until now. With the help of Sun Microsystems and their comprehensive platform components, including servers, storage, software, and professional services, we've been able to focus our development efforts into realizing the Digital Media Environment (DME)."
Check out the details here.
Monday January 21, 2008 | Chemical giant Dow Corning Corporation avoided a $2 million server hardware cost at the same time achieving a 99% reduction in server deployment time and a 50% gain in storage capacity where Solaris 10 ZFS file system disk compression is utilized, by broadly deploying the Solaris 10 Operating System on Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek systems. The underlying infrastructure supporting 47 locations worldwide is managed by an IT UNIX team of just three people. | |
According to Ken Karls, Manager of Network and Datacenter Engineering, "The stability of Solaris 10 has been simply outstanding. It's delivered additional key functionality while continuing to provide the same outstanding level of availability to which we've become accustomed."
Check out the details here.