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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
SUN SEES INCREASED DEMAND FOR
TOTAL NETWORK SOLUTIONS
Demonstrating the increasing demand for complete network computing system
solutions, Sun announced it has secured major deals with several
industry-leading businesses and organizations that are looking to manage
ever-changing workload needs with high-end servers. In addition to a
comprehensive agreement with Office Depot, Sun has signed on Pemex, Morse plc
and Science Application International Corp.
"Despite our recent diversification into low-cost systems, these wins are a
testament that high-end servers matter for today's data-intensive jobs," said
Steve Campbell, vice president of marketing for the Enterprise Systems Product
Group at Sun. "Customers want computing infrastructures that can seamlessly
scale up or scale down as demand warrants, while simultaneously lowering costs
and improving efficiencies. Sun brings together the Solaris operating system,
storage and services with the Sun Fire 15K to build a fully integrated
high-end solution tailored to the customer's needs."
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
Customers Do More With Sun Systems
Petroleos Mexicanos' (Pemex) Exploration and Production Division turned to
Sun
to build a data center infrastructure that delivers exceptional power and
performance to help geologists, geophysicists and engineers gain critical
information for finding, producing and managing Mexico's oil and gas
reservoirs. Sun, the creator of and leading advocate of Java technology,
designed a complete end-to-end solution based on the Sun Fire 15K server
running the Solaris 8 Operating System featuring:
- A storage area network (SAN) comprised of Sun's tiered classes of
storage
from entry to high end with traction in software.
- Two Sun Blade 2000 workstations that serve as consoles for the Sun Fire
15K
server and storage solution.
- A SunReady Availability Assessment and Application Readiness Service
performed by Sun Services providing recommendations to optimize the company's
new data center.
"By switching to Sun Fire servers, we have deployed a large-capacity,
highly
available and powerful system to help quickly and reliably process a vast
amount of data," said Fernando Fiorentino, technical manager of Pemex's Centro
Nacional de Procesado Sismologico (CNPS). "The Sun team has worked very
closely with us to deliver the most effective environment to meet our heavy
data processing and storage needs. We are very impressed with the performance
of our Sun equipment and the expertise of the Sun team."
United Kingdom-based Morse, a systems integrator and Sun iForce partner
specializing in application performance evaluation, asked Sun to create a
server environment capable of simultaneously handling myriad projects for
Morse clients with minimal downtime. Morse created an environment running on
the Solaris Operating System that includes the Sun Fire 15K server, two Sun
Fire 1280 servers and the Sun Enterprise 10000 server. This allows customers
to do proof-of-concept tests to ensure that proposed solutions meet evolving
business requirements. Using the Dynamic Reconfiguration capabilities of the
Sun servers, Morse can automatically provision resources and maximize
efficiency to accommodate varying workloads and demands on processing
power.
"We have developed a framework to guide our customers towards business
aligned
IT. The Sun Fire and Sun Enterprise systems are key components of the iForce
Center which provides us a with significant differentiator when helping our
customers achieve more from less," said David Beresford, United Kingdom
Country Director for Morse plc. "By providing a proof of concept environment
our customers can ensure the proposed solution is aligned to their business
needs."
Sun's High-End Systems Earn Critical Acclaim
Further validating the superior technology of Sun's high-end servers, China
InformationWeek in December 2003 awarded the Sun Fire 15K server its Editors
Choice 2003 award for its massive scalability (up to 106 CPUs), high
performance on CPU and I/O throughputs, and dynamic system domain technology,
which provides the most flexible configurations for different types of
workloads.
About Sun Microsystems Inc
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at sun.com/.
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