Customers Choose Sun: Sun Ray Thin Clients, Lustre File System, Sun Blade Servers, GlassFish Server, MySQL DB
The BMW Group has chosen Sun to provide managed-storage-on-demand
services and SAN infrastructure in Europe, the United States, South
Africa, and Asia Pacific. Sun will also provide disk and tape
infrastructure for the mainframe environment at BMW Group's Munich
headquarters, and Sun Professional and Managed Services will help
ensure mission-critical processes are maintained.
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NTT Data, Japan's largest system integrator, strengthened security
and reduced maintenance requirements by replacing PC-based terminals
with Sun Ray 2FS virtual display clients powered by Sun Fire X4100
M2 servers. Tadashi Omura, Divisional Manager, Financial Systems
Business Unit, NTT Data, comments: "The Sun Ray solution has saved
us time and money and provided us with the security assurance we
needed in our organization."
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Chevron Energy Technology Company, part of the United States'
second-largest integrated energy company, chose the Sun's Lustre
file system to build high-performance computer clusters that can
handle growing volumes of data.
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Bangladesh-based City Bank has deployed Sun servers and storage
to support ambitious growth. "City Bank has relied on the Sun
Microsystems platform for more than five years to support all its
operations, including Retail Banking, Corporate and Investment
Banking, SME Banking, and Treasury and Market Risks. We are very
happy with our decision to go with Sun," says Kazi Mahmood Sattar,
Managing Director and CEO, City Bank.
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Music community Web site Last.fm implemented a Sun server and
storage solution or high-density computing with low power consumption.
The company is now testing Sun Blade technology. "The Sun Blade
T6320 server modules, with their UltraSPARC® T2 processor technology,
could reduce the energy consumption on our Web-server pool by 40%,"
comments Mike Brodbelt, Director of Technical Operations and
Infrastructure, Last.fm.
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"We have been called the greenest computer company on the planet.
Our products are very-well suited to minimizing costs, for any
particular compute characteristic, whether it is thin clients on
the desktop, x86 servers, or
[Sun’s] SPARC, which is very low
powered. There is a very interesting opportunity for people looking
to save money," commented Sun's Chairman, Scott McNealy, in an
interview with Financial Times. The interviewer, Stephen Pritchard
confirmed "Sun has a healthy cash position, with $3.3bn in the bank,
and intends to maintain its spending on research and development."
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In an interview in Computerworld, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun
Microsystems, detailed how Sun's energy-efficient technologies and
open-source software mean that Sun is ready to help customers reduce
costs during the current global economic difficulties.
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Leading Market Conversations: Eco Efficiency, Open Source, Virtualization, OpenOffice.org Software, Partner Growth Fund, Environmental Award, CSR Report
eWEEK's Scott Ferguson reported
on the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, where Gartner analysts considered
how IT managers will be able to create virtual environments in
datacenters that have a mixture of different hardware and operating
systems. Ferguson noted that the Sun xVM Ops Center suite offers
ways to "manage both the physical hardware and virtual environments."
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In his LinuxWorld article, "Recession worries? Go open source to
cut costs," JT Smith comments: "This article is being written in
the newly released
[OpenOffice.org] 3 word processor, which is just
as powerful as the Microsoft Office suite."
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The Channel's Vera Alves reports on the SunSM Partner Advantage
Program's Partner Growth Fund, which aims to help Sun partners in
the ANZ region to boost customer demand.
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Sun won an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
vnunet.com's Shaun Nichols revealed that " [Sun] had originally
planned to cut its 2002 emissions level by over 20 percent by 2012,
but reached the milestone five years early."
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In the Financial Times article "What do buyers REALLY want?,"
Stephen Pritchard considers how IT purchasing is changing. The
article quotes Peter Ryan, Sun's executive vice president and global
head of sales: "What people want to know now is what are the trends
for the next few years, so they can use technology to support the
core business goals. What does it mean, for example, to run a
business over the network?"
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Sun's latest Corporate Social Responsibility report includes
comments from Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO: "We create eco responsible
solutions that deliver more performance, use less energy, and save
money. We implement programs to reduce our impact on global climate
change — and help others do the same. And as the leader in open
source, we share our technologies with the global community to
increase accessibility and participation."
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PC Magazine's Edward Mendelson reviewed OpenOffice.org 3.0 software,
commenting that it is: "the first and only application suite that
can be seriously considered to be a substitute for the massive power
and flexibility of Microsoft's suite." Mendelson also commented:
"For governments and corporations that don't want to be dependent
on Microsoft's formats and don't want to continue paying Microsoft's
prices, OpenOffice.org 3.0 is a serious contender."
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PC World reports that "Sun Microsystems has doubled the capacity
of its Niagara servers with the four-socket
[Sun SPARC] Enterprise
T5440 system, designed for running corporate databases and ERP
(enterprise resource planning) applications."
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Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Software, Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 Server, Sun xVM VirtualBox Platform, Sun Blade 6000 Server, JavaFX SDK
In his BizTalk Blog, Nick Heppleston describes Sun xVM VirtualBox
software as "an excellent product that gets the seal of approval
from this blogger."
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eWEEK's Scott Ferguson describes how Sun is adding to its range
of blade servers — with systems that use Sun's UltraSPARC T2 Plus
processor and AMD's quad-core Opteron processor — and has launched
the Sun Blade 6000, a new storage blade that provides up to 1.2 TB
of storage.
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CRN's list of 25 Technology Products That Will Save You Money
included Sun xVM VirtualBox software: "Sun Microsystems' xVM
VirtualBox is free, open-source software that turns PCs into
virtualization platforms that can run all of the major operating
systems."
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In SOAWorld, Joe Winchester commented on the JavaFX SDK preview
that became publicly available last month: "My opinion of [JavaFX]
is that it is a technology that could really change the way programs
are created."
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