"While London's massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit scores, let athletes send e-mail and transmit high-definition video of the Games ..."
The Technology Operations Center is in full swing as "London Wires Up" for the 2012 Olympic Games. The goal is for the 400+ people to become bored during the games with no issues. They know that is not going to happen but they are planning for every possible issue, problem, delay or outage that can be imagined.
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Sun Microsystems of Canada will be responsible for managing the IT infrastructure supporting the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) in Vancouver, Canada. The assignment entails connecting 15 networked venues and three datacenters, running multiple business applications and an integration test lab, and keeping 10,000 media outlets up to date with over 100 TB of data. This technology infrastructure will handle daily operations as well as share real-time data with billions worldwide.
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A number of the leading Internet sites in the world rely on Sun IT infrastructure to serve their customers. The sites include Wikipedia, SmugMug, eBay, NBC for its Olympics coverage, Internet Brands and Betfair. Details are available in a Sun feature article.
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NBCOlympics.com serves as the online home of the Olympic Games, including the recent 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China, and the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. A destination for millions of fans of the Olympics, the site provides streaming real-time video coverage of Olympic events, television listings, athlete biographies, and breaking news stories.
To support its Web infrastructure, NBCOlympics.com implemented 160 Sun Fire servers, split between its California and New Jersey datacenters. In addition, the site received end-to-end technical support and services from Sun.
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Each month Sun Marketing publishes "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 14 items in three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: Sun Fire Servers, Sun StorageTek Storage Arrays, HPC technologies, Sun Lustre File System, Solaris 10, Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers, Sun Application Readiness Service
Leading Market Conversations: Open Source and Commoditization, Gartner Research on HPC, JavaFX, Partner Advantage Program, Open Access Channel Program, OpenEco.org
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, Sun's Virtualization Strategy, MySQL 5.1, StarOffice 9 and OpenOffice.org, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440
A two-page PDF of Sun's "Good News" is available in English and several other languages.
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