A new hardware and software system for the deployment of Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure called the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure brings together Sun’s Open Networks Systems with Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for BI. This solution can save customers up to 90% in acquisition costs over proprietary software, reports Sun, while providing scalability starting at less than $1/GB.
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Chip multi-threaded (CMT) Sun SPARC Enterprise systems now offer 1.6 GHz processors. When used with the recently released Logical Domains 1.2, users can expect to experience additional virtualization and compute performance, simplified management, a reduction in I/O bottlenecks and accelerated application response time, Sun reports. The company also announced the Sun Open Network Systems Enterprise 2.0 Solution for Oracle that claims enterprise infrastructure deployment at up to 75 percent faster rates than traditional approaches. Additionally, new x64 blades and rackmount servers with the latest six-core AMD Opteron processors are available.
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Nick Kloski and Alejandro Medrano have penned a Sun BluePrints Online article covering Sun's new reference architecture, the Open Network Systems for Internet Infrastructure, MySQL Edition. This reference architecture combines Sun Open Storage, high-performance networking and servers, open source software and Sun services into an integrated enterprise portal solution for Web and enterprise environments. This paper describes the hardware and software components of the reference architecture, studies the scalability of the architecture, and includes step-by-step directions for setup and configuration.
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Sun's Open Network Systems have set multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. Outstanding performance was also observed on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test.
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Wanting to accommodate a tight production schedule and render more digital content in a shorter time frame, Blue Sky Studios started investigating how to expand its computing capacity for the film "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." The studio decided to test drive Sun Blade X6250 server modules under Sun's Try and Buy program, and ended up deploying a Sun Constellation System, 120 Sun Ultra 24 workstations and Sun's Enterprise Installation Services. The solution provided four times better performance than Blue Sky's previous solution.
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