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Good News from Sun Monthly Sun Marketing Update - February 2008
News Highlights for February 2008:
Evidence of Growth and Momentum
Sun reported its seventh straight quarter of growth, with double-digit growth in emerging markets such as India, China, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Revenues for Q2FY08 were $3.615 billion, an increase of approximately 1.4% year over year (Y/Y). Strength of the underlying business is reflected in bookings, which grew by more than 7% Y/Y, and deferred revenues, which grew more than 24% Y/Y. Read more Sun announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest-growing open source databases. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. It also reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor. Read more The acquisition of MySQL by Sun marks one of the most significant recognitions of the importance and power of open source as a disruptive force in technology, says SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson in his blog. Read more Sun Chosen Over the Competition
Organizers of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver chose Sun as the official supplier of computer servers and data storage. Sun will provide approximately 550 servers from which organizers will deliver event results, records, and athlete information to audiences in real time. [Sun] knows what it is like inside a dynamic athletic environment, says John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company knows what the demands are for information, and “is able to live up to those expectations. Read more Web product and application developer Sapotek, Inc. switched to Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) after years of Linux loyalty, and replaced its Dell servers and EMC storage systems with Sun Fire x4200 servers and a Sun Fire x4500 hybrid data server, using Sun's Startup Essentials program. The deployment allowed Sapotek to use only four computing nodes instead of five, yet with more computing power and 99.99% uptime, compared with 97% uptime using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Read more Switzerland's Nomura Bank Ltd. replaced its HP infrastructure with Sun Fire servers, StorageTek disk and tape. With the new infrastructure, the bank has increased response and backup times 10x, dramatically reduced maintenance costs while increasing scalability, security and ROI. "The cooperation we experienced between Sun and its partner SoSyS was first class," says Werner F. Nöthe, Bank VP and Head of IT. "The installed solution has absolutely met or our expectations, or even exceeded them." Read more Germany's University Hospital rechts der Isar centralized patient data and replaced its PC-based configuration with a highly scalable, reliable, and energy-efficient server network connected to Sun Ray virtual display clients. In addition to providing mobile personnel access to life-saving applications from any location, the hospital reduced hardware acquisition costs by 50% and power by 95%. Read more Business Results from Customers
Internet service provider netINS Inc. upgraded its infrastructure hardware with the latest Sun technology, including blades, servers with CoolThreads technology, and carrier-grade Netra servers with the Solaris 10 OS. The company realized a twentyfold increase in email server performance, a 50% reduction in TCO for servers virtualized using Solaris Containers, and a 90% reduction in email server administration time. Read more Real Time Matrix Corporation (RTM) CEO Jeff Whitehead estimates that the company would have had to buy about two dozen Linux servers at $3,000 each, to do the work of the Sun Fire T2000. Not counting the cost of loading, testing and hosting the stand-alone Linux servers, RTM still saves about 50 cents on the dollar, and about 80% on the power and rack space bill. RTM took advantage of the Sun Start Up Essentials and the Sun Try and Buy programs. Read more Today, two system administrators at the Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics at the University of Calgary proactively manage an operation that includes many domains on more than 100 computing systems, over 500,000 Web site hits/month, and 28 databases. “Our applications need to push the edge of bioinformatics research while we address practical concerns like performance, data availability and a limited IT staff, says center director Dr. Christoph Sensen. Sun technology has been extremely stable and very flexible, which makes our job of advancing scientific research much easier. Read more Chemical giant Dow Corning Corporation avoided a $2 million server hardware cost, reduced server deployment time by 99%, and gained 50% in storage capacity with Solaris OS ZFS file system disk compression on Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek disk systems. The underlying infrastructure supporting 47 locations worldwide is managed by an IT UNIX platform team of just three people. Read more Sun's Competitive Advantage
Sun is a company that 'gets it.' There is no business that can run wholly on Linux or Solaris, at least not yet, writes Enterprise Networking Planet's Charlie Schluting. Whether the goal is to get rid of Microsoft products or not, one must contend with the fact that every business has a Windows presence. That, my friends, means interoperability and cooperation is required. Read more Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms) technology, based on hypervisor management, resides in the server firmware instead of on the CPU like competing technologies. Residing in the server firmware allows CPU isolation so a heavy load in a virtual environment will not hamper the performance of other CPUs. Read more In a review of NetBeans 6.0 software, Pacific Data Works analyst Andrew Binstock concludes the IDE is rich enough for most development needs. What is particularly pleasant about NetBeans is that despite the wide-ranging functionality, the environment never feels like a battleship in the sense that Eclipse can, he writes. Rather, it feels responsive and capable. That's a big plus. And now with the newly improved editing experience, I do believe that NetBeans 6.0 is truly in a position to vie for the crown of best free Java IDE. Read more Sun is probably the only product vendor that has articulated the ideas behind cloud computing with CTO Greg Papadopoulos' red shift analogy, writesTechWorld's Chris Mellor. ...Sun in many ways appears to be the hardware and software vendor with the most cloud computing components. It has its [Solaris] ZFS file system and has embraced the commodity server/commodity disk/open source software route with products such as the [Sun Fire] X4500 storage server and Solaris 10 software stack. With Papadopoulos, Sun has a formidable exponent of cloud computing concepts and the company is obviously well aware of cloud computing and excited by the concept and its possibilities. Read more Awards and Accolades
Sun ranked fourth in CRO's 10 Best Corporate Citizens By Industry 2007 for the technology hardware category. IBM ranked ninth, and neither HP nor Dell made the list. Read more Sun received three InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Most Innovative Server OS: Solaris 10, Best Storage File System: Solaris ZFS, Best Storage Server: Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper). Read more Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers won Gold Awards in SearchDataCenter.com's Products of the Year 2007. The SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 are capable of web serving over four times the number of users, in 1/4 the space at nearly 1/4 the cost, with reportedly six times better performance per watt compared to competitive UNIX/RISC-based servers. Read more SC Magazine gave Sun Java System Identity Manager v 7.1 software 5 out of 5 stars. This system is at the high end of performance. It is designed to integrate well with the existing environment and streamlines user identity management. Read more Sun won in 6 of 11 categories in Developer.com's 2008 Product of the Year awards. Read more The Sun Constellation System won Supercomputing Online's Editor's Choice Award for 2007 Product of the Year for outstanding innovation, and advanced competitive landscape. Read more NetBeans architecture is currently the fastest growing open source Java environment IDE relative to Eclipse, IntelliJ and others, according to Inside Java Technology, which also named NetBeans as one of the Top 5 2007 Winners in Java. Read more What Others Are Saying
The acquisition of MySQL “takes Sun where the Web is going, not where it used to be, says Noel Yuhanna, database analyst for Forrester Research. Read more " ... now becomes a leading provider of Open Source IT software,” writes one blogger. “It now can provide the complete solution from middleware through database to office suite to IT shops that want to take the Open Source route. Java continues to rule the top of the programming language roost while rivals like C continue to lose ground. ... But indisputably, Sun can now fill their boxes with some of the best and most productive combos of Open Source software in the market. Going into an Open Software world, that is no small advantage." Read more With this switch [from Linux to Solaris,] we've gone from playing in the sandbox to getting our doctoral degree. You can't even compare Red Hat GFS to Solaris ZFS,” says Sapotek CEO Joshua Rand. We no longer need to do all those chores we had to do with Linux. I can't even quantify the number of man-hours we freed by moving to Solaris. We have so much more time to develop our software now. Read more The Try and Buy Program, I think, is a great program because it gives you a real chance to try real hardware on real problems with real people and bring it all together into a value that you can't get otherwise, says Dale Williams, CEO of DigiTar, LLC. More than 89% of Sun Try and Buy program customers surveyed recommend the program. Read more
While IBM and HP are holding their own maintaining proprietary UNIX on their respective POWER and Itanium systems, Sun has taken a different path and moved to make Solaris a cross-platform operating system. Of all of the enterprise UNIX vendors, it's pretty much a slam-dunk to say Sun made the most dramatic moves in the UNIX space in 2007, writes ServerWatch's Brian Proffitt.
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