Solaris Containers on next-generation multi-core platforms is giving customers using Reuters Market Data Systems (RMDS) in Solaris environments increased capacity, improved efficiencies, reduced latency, and overall enhanced performance while also reducing total cost of ownership.

Sun and Thomson Reuters claim recent benchmarks have demonstrated that RMDS performs better in a virtualized environment with Solaris Containers, which delivers strong performance improvements across a significantly reduced hardware footprint, than one running RMDS on a number of individual Sun server machines.

"In the current economic climate, capital market firms must continually explore technology solutions for low latency and high performance in order to remain competitive," said Terry Roche, Executive Vice President, Information Management Solutions, at Thomson Reuters. "Our collaboration with Sun demonstrates that Thomson Reuters is committed to investing in innovative technologies that ensure RMDS is optimized to meet client demands."

The two companies report that their combined technologies have already achieved a number of performance breakthroughs as a result of joint engineering work, and details will soon follow via publishings on reference architectures and benchmarks in the near future.

"Our customers are always searching for a complete solution that will position them ahead of the pack in regards to throughput and latency at a low TCO," said Ambreesh Khanna, Global Head, Financial Services Industry at Sun Microsystems. "By combining the technology and intellectual resources of two leading innovators in the field, Sun and Thomson Reuters have once again fulfilled this market need."

Sun does offers a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization product portfolio and comprehensive set of virtualization service offerings to help customers deploy new services faster, maximize the utilization of system resources, and more easily monitor and manage virtualized environments. Sun's virtualization products provide unified software management tools and virtualization capabilities across operating systems, servers, storage, desktops and processors.

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