Good News From Sun Marketing Customer Success Highlights, Awards and Testimonials of Sun's Growth and Strength
It's an exciting time for Sun -- here are more good news items that Sun marketing would like to share with customers, partners and others to highlight Sun's momentum.
Evidence of Growth and Momentum
"Sun's a winner." -- "Sun's growth is good news for the entire industry. It proves, as I keep pointing out, that trends are useless in predicting the future. Find players with vision, drive and patience, mixed with a desire to please customers as well as shareholders, and it's easy to pick the winners. Sun's a winner," said
InfoWorld\'s Tom Yager.
In disk storage systems, Sun had the strongest revenue growth among the top 5 vendors and outgrew the overall market in revenue Y/Y and Q/Q. Sun also moved up to the #5 position in total disk storage systems revenue. See article number [17058] for more details and a link to tables illustrating the results.
For the 21st consecutive quarter, Sun StorageTekTM was #1 in Total Tape Automation revenue. In the Enterprise Tape Automation segment, Sun has 56% revenue market share and extended its revenue share lead over IBM. Details are in article [17058].
Sun Chosen Over Competition
Joyent’s Jason Hoffman says, "Last year, [we] moved hundreds of servers and nearly 100TB of data onto Solaris Express and off of FreeBSD and SUSE Linux ... The move has boosted [our] data center's performance while cutting down on costs and crashes." Read more in article [16680].
Sun UltraSPARC servers helped boost performance by 500% at the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL). Sun beat out IBM and Silicon Graphics because it provided the lowest cost for performance once decision-makers factored in power and maintenance. Read more in article [16747].
The Université Catholique de Louvain replaced 6 aging, expensive Dell PowerEdge servers with 1 Sun FireTM V20z server. Thanks to the containers feature of SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the applications and data housed on each of the Dell servers now reside on 1. The result is an extremely cost-efficient, small form-factor, easy-to-administer system that offers greater flexibility, more compute power, greater security and higher availability.
Real Business Results from Customers
XML appliance vendor Reactivity increased system performance by 40% and reduced power consumption by 75% with Sun Fire servers.
Retail chain Harris Scarfe reduced its total cost of ownership by 20% and reduced hardware configurations from around 10 to 3. Harris Scarfe replaced Linux with Sun Solaris because it "was by far the best price-performance proposition' and has 'superior scalability." Read more in article [17019].
"Numbers don't lie - we experienced a 300% performance increase after we started using the Sun Fire T1000s. In a third of the space at a third of the power consumption, we were able to build out our infrastructure enough to maintain the excellent level of service Fotolog members expect. We hope to double our views per day in the next 3 months, and couldn't handle that kind of traffic without the T1000s," said Fotolog CTO Warren Habib. [16680]
Sun's Competitive Advantage
"Right now, Niagara processors are ahead of anything that Intel or AMD has on the market," said Concentric's David Schairer.
Concentric is a hosted application provider is a long time Sun user.
Amy Wohl of the consulitng firm Wohl Associates believes Sun is making a smart move to emphasize its high-security and encryption technology. "They have a nice playing card there," she said, as reported on RedHerring.com. "They have a lot of credibility in that space. They have a lot of expertise."
Evidence of Technological Innovation and Leadership
Sun is No. 6 in the InformationWeek 500, an annual ranking of the most innovative companies employing information technology in their businesses. Read more in article [17000].
Sun StorageTek Business Analytics won Byte and Switch's Big Bytes award in the Best Storage Management Software category.
ISO New England recognized Sun as an Efficiency Achiever as part of its energy-awareness campaign.
Sun's DTrace trouble-shooting software was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in 3 years that a Sun entry has won the top award. Sun's CoolThreadsTM technology was also recognized. Read more in article [17013].
Gartner placed the Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ in the Leader quadrant while Sun's Niagara and Galaxy servers placed in the Visionary quadrant for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) DBMS Servers, Appliance Servers and Data Warehouse DBMS Servers.
Influencers' Validation
"People used to ask why Sun spent so much money on R&D and why didn't they become more like Dell," Insight64's Nathan Brookwood said to InformationWeek. "Now people are asking why Dell doesn't do more innovative things."
"If luck is in fact the intersection of preparation and opportunity, Sun's luck at the moment is very good indeed," said Robert Frances Group’s Michael Dortch. "At the risk of torturing a metaphor to death, Sun is definitely rising, and its foreseeable future appears bright and largely cloud-free."
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