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Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced three new customers -- Vonage, PlanetOut,
and Concentric.com -- representing a diverse set of businesses in which the
Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 servers running the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating
System (OS) have been successfully deployed. The customers are using the
servers, which are powered by Sun's UltraSPARC® T1 processor with
CoolThreads(TM) technology, to drive a variety of applications, from running
enterprise databases to supporting web-tier applications.
Vonage, PlanetOut Inc., and Concentric.com Tout
Dramatic Performance Gains and Power Savings of Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and
T2000 Servers Running Solaris 10
Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced three new customers -- Vonage, PlanetOut,
and Concentric.com -- representing a diverse set of businesses in which the
Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 servers running the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating
System (OS) have been successfully deployed. The customers are using the
servers, which are powered by Sun's UltraSPARC® T1 processor with
CoolThreads(TM) technology, to drive a variety of applications, from running
enterprise databases to supporting web-tier applications.
"Sun has hit a home run with the combination of Solaris 10 running on the
UltraSPARC T1-based servers," said Tom Cignarella, senior director of
technical operations at Planet Out Inc. "The performance is outstanding, and
updated features like Solaris Containers which allow us to create zones are
easy to set up yet extremely powerful. We were able to replace nearly
300 aging servers with 20 Sun Fire T1000's, and we have greater capacity than
before. The T1000 has no competition at this time, and what Sun has done makes
other new servers seem outdated."
Customer Deployments
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Concentric.com: Providing highly scalable business web hosting, email
hosting, groupware and perimeter email security that cost-effectively
meets the needs of today's growing businesses.
Concentric.com has currently deployed nine Sun Fire T2000 and T1000
servers. Each server increases capacity six to eight times over the
previous generation of hardware that it replaces. As a result, they have
purchased five additional systems. Concentric's aggressively
multi-threaded and thread-pooled software runs very well on the
16 'processor' configurations helping Concentric.com achieve near linear
performance gains.
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PlanetOut Inc.: The leading global media and entertainment company
exclusively serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
community.
PlanetOut replaced 300 older systems with 20 Sun Fire T2000 servers
running the Solaris 10 OS. The performance gains have been dramatic, and
since Planetout was running out of datacenter room, the space gains have
been equally important. Although the power and cooling benefits and the
Solaris (TM) Containers feature were not initial drivers of the
purchase, they have proven as important, if not more so, than the
performance gains.
- Vonage: A leading provider of broadband telephone services with over
two million subscriber lines as of September 30, 2006.
Over the last year, Vonage has deployed both Sun Fire T1000 and T2000
servers running the Solaris 10 operating system to power its ticketing
system for managing customer support. With the Sun systems, Vonage is
experiencing a dramatic savings in power and cooling, is using
50 percent less space, and can now support significantly more users per
servers. Given its widely acknowledged reliability and long-standing
dominance in the telecommunications industry, Solaris was an obvious OS
choice for Vonage.
Momentum
The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, available for just over a year, are
two of the fastest ramping products in Sun's history. Combined they represent
more than $100 million in revenue per fiscal quarter, and have played a key
role in helping Sun achieve three straight quarters of server revenue growth,
according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
"The T1000 and T2000 are key pistons in our growth engine -- delivering
virtually unmatched performance and energy efficiency vs. the competition,
delivering a range of benefits for customers, and providing a vehicle for us
to enter new accounts," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Sun
Microsystems. "With the reliability and scalability of Solaris 10, these
machines are winning new customers for Sun every day."
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