A number of companies worldwide have found the solution to lowering IT infrastructure TCO and improving performance in system consolidation with Sun solutions. Among those that have been reported on in this news magazine are the A.B. Watley Group [5769], (the bracketed number is a hot link to the story); the City of Oakland, California [7731]; Corporate Express [8620]; Devon Energy Corporation [6851]; Littlewoods [5769]; Nova Scotia Power [8557]; Ocwen Technology Exchange (OTX) [6758]; Southern Company [5769]; Tai Fook Securities Group [6261]; TransCanada PipeLines Limited [6851]; the University of Hawaii [8128]; and Virgin Atlantic Airways [8343].

More recently, IT system consolidations have provided similar benefits to Informatica Communidad de Madrid, a municipal ISP that consolidated its Oracle databases on two Sun FireTM 6800 servers and a single Sun FireTM 3800 server at the central data center without compromising availability or reliability.

The French manufacturer of steel and plastic auto parts, MGI Coutier, consolidated its server environment and standardized on a single platform (an SAP R/3 system implementation completed by Sun in a ten month period) and expects to realize revenue increases of U.S.$138 million as a result.

Also benefiting from an SAP R/3 implementation completed by Sun, the German dairy cooperative Nordmilch now has a system that supports end-to-end operational processes for its more than 12,000 supplier farmers.

Southwest Gas Corporation Inc. turned to Sun for a system that now supports its 1.3 million customers (growing at the annual rate of 70,000 additional users) on a 13,000-per-minute transaction load.

Swedbank used the SunReady Lifecycle Advantage to move 30 percent of its transactions online, allowing the bank to close 60 local branches and to serve one million Internet customers for 30 percent less than through traditional B2C channels.

Following a number of acquisitions, TELUS Mobility, a Canadian telecommunications provider, migrated to a single system architecture that enabled the company to consolidate customer care and billing systems from five data centers onto one Sun FireTM 15K server and to reduce projected capital expenditures by 30 to 40 percent.

Finally, the virtual network operator Virgin Mobile replaced an HP-based system with a Sun EnterpriseTM 10000 server that runs the company's customer care, payment and number management applications.

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