ETSA Utilities, South Australia's primary electricity distributors with 800,000 residential and business customers, faced the task of upgrading its legacy IT infrastructure that hosts the company's ERP system while at the same time improving the processing time of ERP system jobs and increasing the availability of ERP mission-critical systems. In addition, ETSA sought to reduce payroll processing time and improve data load time. The utility found the infrastructure it was looking for in the Sun product line.
If rapid deployment of strategic, mission-critical applications in a non-datacenter environment is a necessity, then the Tadpole Mobile Enterprise Kit (MEK) may be the right solution for your organization. Tadpole MEK is a complete, prepackaged mobile datacenter that provides immediate availability with an out-of-the-box, working infrastructure in the field utilizing pre-staged applications for the deployment of mission critical services. The mobile-rugged computing solution consists of a high performance, dual socket, AMD Opteron powered VM2200a Mobile Server/Workstation with a Tadpole M1400 Ultra-Thin Client. Housed in a hardened transit case, Tadpole MEK allows organizations to run and securely access essential Solaris, Linux, and Windows-based applications in native environments or supported virtual environments under the most demanding field conditions.
Get support for the latest version of selected Veritas Storage Foundation software components with Solaris Cluster. Veritas Volume Manager and File System, part of Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, are now supported on SPARC and X64 platforms with Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 and 3.2 1/09. Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.1 Cluster Functionality (CVM) is supported on SPARC only.
An IDC white paper written by Jean S. Bozman examines the rise and needs of high availability in a virtualized world. Spotlighted is the Solaris Cluster and how it addresses many pain points experienced by IT operations looking to improve availability for applications and databases, while utilizing virtualization technologies.
Sun's Federal Services Chief Technologist Peter Colson has written a post entitled, "Introduction to iSCSI Booting for x86/x64 Platforms." Initially a skeptic about iSCSI booting, Colson is now a convert, having realized that the technique offers better storage utilization, economy, and easier, less risky disaster recovery.
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