InfoWorld honours extra-ordinary technology leadership by releasing their list of Top 25 CTOs of the year. This year's list includes Greg Papadopolous, CTO of Sun Microsystems Inc. Congratulations!

The article accompanying the citation mentions a slew of innovations emerging out of Sun's Engineering - Project Blackbox, Systems based on Chip Multi-Threading, memory and networking subsystem advances and OpenSolaris.

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Greenplum and Sun Microsystems Inc announced yesterday that Reliance Communications Limited has deployed the Datawarehouse Appliance powered by Sun and Greenplum to support applications ranging from legal and regulatory compliance to call detail record analysis.

The press release went on to describe the impact of the deployment :

.. The time required to turn around an ad hoc request for detailed call records from the historical call detail record (CDR) database shrank by over 80 percent in most cases, from five hours to less than an hour, and ... the average time to load a day’s worth of data [reduced] by over 80 percent, from two hours to under twenty minutes.

The Datawarehouse Appliance combines the parallelized shared-nothing Greenplum Database with the innovative Sun Fire X4500 Data Server, Solaris 10 and ZFS technologies to deliver scalable data capacity and query throughput, and attractive price/performance.

The Appliance configurations include a Master/Query Dispatch Server hosting the Greenplum Database master segment instance to provide user connection services and query optimization/dispatch. The data segments are distributed across a bank of Data/Execution Servers. The tightly integrated storage and compute elements in the SF X4500s are particularly well suited to datawarehousing environments.

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