The Sun white paper "Performance Tuning the Sun GlassFish Web Stack (Apache, MySQL, and PHP" is an introduction to tuning different components of the Sun GlassFish Web Stack, with a focus on Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The guide also explains how the features of Web Stack Enterprise Manager can identify which areas of the system to tune for a user's workload.
By working with Sun Startup Essentials program, MusicMetric of London paid 50% less than it originally estimated for the cost of hardware and cut server power-consumption 60% by choosing Sun over Dell. Networking is another benefit MusicMetric has reaped with the Sun Startup Essentials program. "We try to go to as many Sun events as we can," commented MusicMetric's Greg Mead. "It's a really good way to meet other people dealing with similar challenges and Stewart Townsend, a Startup Essentials Manager, has introduced us to some great business leads."
Sun has demonstrated the first large scale grid validation for the SAS Grid Computing 9.2 benchmark using large data sizes with the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System and complex data processing that models the real world, according to blogger Marcus Heckel.
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.
Select x64 Sun Fire Servers now come with Quad Core AMD Opteron Processors. For enhanced performance, the processors run at 2.9 GHz. Sun's x64 server models equipped with this technology include the following: Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240, and Sun Fire X4440.
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