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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in. Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable...
SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges. Serving the dynamic and growing pace of Web 2.0 services development and application deployment is increasingly challenging for datacenter operations. Services need to be able to start small and scale very...
Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and M8000 servers running the Solaris 10 OS by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Zettabyte File System (ZFS), Solaris Clusters, and Dynamic System Domains to build a scalable and highly cost-effective solution with a single instance of Oracle Database and multi-schema Oracle RAC on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers running Solaris 10. Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers running Solaris...
CONSOLIDATING ORACLE® SIEBEL CRM 8 ON A SINGLE SUN SPARC ENTERPRISE® SERVER by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
that consolidates Web, Gateway, Application, and Database tiers on a single Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server, reducing the number of physical machines needed to effectively deploy applications. Founded on a service-oriented architecture, Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 8 software allows businesses to build scalable standards...
Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control. Companies are increasingly...
Sun and Wikimedia - Technology for creating a scalable architecture for rich media deployments by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
scalable solution based on Sun Fire™ X4150 and X4240 servers running Ubuntu Server, MySQL database, and Sun Fire X4540 servers running the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) with the Solaris ZFS file system. Wikipedia.org receives between 25,000 and 60,000 page requests per second, depending on the time of day. In order to support increasing demand...
Sun Fire™ X4250 Server: Industry-leading capacity, high-performance compute platform by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
X4250 server is the best of its kind. The power and scalability of the Sun Fire makes it cost effective and appealing to Web infrastructure and technical putting applications as well as large single-app implementations and multi-app consolidations. When it comes to high disk capacity, the Sun Fire X4250 server is the best of its kind. The power and scalability of...
The Solaris OS and the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series - Maximizing performance while minimizing energy costs by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
The decision to invest in an IT development and deployment platform is complex, and requires assessing current needs as well as accurately predicting future technology and business trends. IT professionals want to ensure that their development and deployment platforms take full advantage of all that can be offered. This paper gives more details. The...
Platform Design, TCO, and Cost-Effective Flexibility: The Role of Solaris in Support of SAP Enterprise Applications by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
examines the various design issues at hand, and provides a detailed analysis of the role that the Solaris operating system can play in meeting the new requirements. Information Technology executives face a continuing but unpredictable cycle in which newly relevant forces demand a redesign of the platform and infrastructure for enterprise computing...
Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
a pre-configured, pre-installed, calibrated, and validated solution that includes the Oracle database, Sun™ servers, storage, and the Solaris™ Operating System (OS) for a fast, reliable, and scalable data warehouse. The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun combines products from two industry leaders to provide a pre-configured, pre-installed, calibrated...
The Business Case for Migrating from SPARC to HP: Infrastructure silos, such as SPARC, are an unnecessary IT burden by Hewlett-Packard Company
This brief examines the operational costs and risks of SPARC environments, and shows that business assets currently hosted on SPARC can be migrated easily into the data center mainstream. The success of IT in supporting modern business has created unparalleled demand for quality, just-in-time IT services. Whether it's blog support, mobile email, or the...
Sun Servers Free Trial Catalog by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Read about the different applications and features of CoolThread, x64, Blade, and Carrier Grade servers. Check out this free *trial *product guide to find the server that best fits your organization. Read about the different applications and features of *CoolThreads*, x64, Blade, and *Netra Carrier-Grade* *systems*.

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Running MySQL Web Services on Sun systems with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
performance, simplify your datacenter, and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open Network System for MySQL — integrating and optimizing compute technologies and featuring the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series with new Flash-ready options. Speed up application performance, simplify your datacenter, and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open...
Using the Solaris™ Operating System to Upgrade SAP Environments by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
landscape based on Solaris™ Containers and Solaris ZFS technologies. This architecture allows enterprises running Solaris to operate an SAP environment at lower cost in a more flexible way, while retaining high availability. Today's SAP basis administrators face many challenges in a world of steadily growing and increasingly complex SAP landscapes...
Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
dependent upon an ever-expanding applications and technology network, many IT managers are seeking a more reasonable IT infrastructure strategy. This paper details several approaches to that end. The massive expansion of compute infrastructure over the last few decades have left many organizations facing power and cooling, floor space, and administrative...
Sun Systems for MySQL x86 Performance: Speed, savings and simplicity on Sun Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
infrastructure is important in simplifying and scaling your web-based applications. MySQL is clearly the biggest network player being used by Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook, and the open source price makes it ideal. Now you just need results. The Sun x86 servers come with the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series inside which allows the flexibility of running...
Sun Fire™ X4170 Server: Ultimate in enterprise performance for database management or Web applications by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
increasing pressure to deliver more services and to support more users with a shrinking IT budget. To help meet those increasing demands, the enterprise-class Sun Fire X4170 server offers optimal price/performance in a compact, space- and energy-efficient 1U form factor. Your business is under increasing pressure to deliver more services and to support more...
Sun Networking Solutions Free Trial Catalog by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
to find out which solution works for you. Sun has pioneered many standard networking technologies, and networking is part of everything they make - from embedded networking on UltraSPARC processors, to the Solaris Operating System, to the communication protocols that allow systems to share data. View this free trial guide to find out which solution works...
Sun™ Storage J4000 Array Family: Scalable, reliable and cost-effective solutions for open storage infrastructures by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
to extend from incremental to bulk storage. Sun's J4000 family provides a solution that is both affordable and scalable. Currently there is a high demand for a cost effective way to extend from incremental to bulk storage. Sun's J4000 family provides a solution that is both affordable and scalable.

  • Open storage innovation - Sun Storage J4000 arrays act as
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Sun™ J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL™ Database by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
10 Operating System with the data integrity and simplified administration of ZFS, the Sun Storage J4400 array is a strong candidate for improving backup & restoring operations. This paper discusses how to configure & deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL databases with the Sun Storage J4400 array. This paper discusses how to quickly configure and deploy...
MKS Toolkit for Developers v9.2p2 by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division
Developers speeds the software development and administration process and reduces errors by eliminating the time spent on tedious manual tasks. MKS Toolkit dramatically improves the compatibility between Windows and UNIX environments. Product Type: Unix functionality on Windows

Target User: Mixed computing environments

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MKS Toolkit for...
Scaling the Java Application Footprint in Production Deployments by Azul Systems, Inc
main causes of current footprint stagnation and Azul's mission to remedy those causes. He describes how the Azul JVM, available on Linux, Solaris, Windows, HPUX, and AIX platforms, unlocks the power and potential that already abundant resources can bring to servers applications. Software platforms appear dangerously stagnant in footprint growth in recent...
Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun™ Logical Domains by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload. This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on...
Sun and Infobright - Delivering high-performance data warehouse solutions that cost less to run by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership. Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class...
MKS X/Server v 8.5 - High-performance, transparent PC X server by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division
available for the newest PC architectures and is easy to use and easy to manage. Applications normally available on expensive UNIX workstations can be readily accessed from enterprise desktops. Product Type: High-performance, transparent PC X server

Target User: PC X Server

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This world of PC/UNIX system integration demands a product available for...
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