The SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) has won over Spanish film production company Dygra Films, which is replacing its Intel processor-based platform running Microsoft Windows with Sun's latest UNIXR release. According to Dygra Films, its 3D animation process, including production and procedures, has improved by 50 percent with the Solaris 10 OS and other Sun systems.

The complete Sun solution designed for Dygra Films is comprised of 31 Sun FireTM V20z x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered with the AMD Opteron processor, four Sun FireTM V240 servers equipped with SPARCR processors, Sun StorEdgeTM 3510 FC Arrays, Sun StorEdgeTM L100 Tape Library, the JavaTM 1.4.2 platform software and the Solaris 10 OS.

"Our collaboration with Sun Microsystems helped us to develop cutting-edge animation technologies and has boosted our ability to succeed in this market," said Daniel Diaz De La Iglesia, system analyst for Dygra Films. "Our decision to select Sun systems was driven by the sheer performance of its Sun Fire servers powered with both AMD Opteron and SPARC processors, and its competitive pricing. We're confident that our work with Sun can only lead to greater accomplishments in the animation field."

By using Sun systems running the Solaris 10 OS, Dygra Films was able to remove bottlenecks in the 3D graphic rendering process, which helped increase efficiencies and improve production by 50 percent.

"Dygra Films has seventeen years of experience in the world of communication and audiovisual production. It is very exciting to see that they were able to cut costs and complexity in the production company's data center by using a Sun solution," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing, Network Systems Group at Sun. "The powerful combination of Sun's Solaris 10 OS and Sun Fire servers that deliver leading performance, provides a fast, secure and efficient alternative that has streamlined all types of businesses around the globe."

Dygra Films' 3D animated film, "Midsummer Dream", which is now showing in more than 60 countries around the world, is using these new Sun systems. [...read more...]

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