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NRC BUYS SUN SYSTEM TO AMP UP BIOINFORMATICS GRID

Sun Microsystems Inc highlighted more than 30 of the hundreds of customers worldwide who chose Sun to reduce costs and simplify their network computing environments. From financial services companies such as CLSA Asia-Pacific, to major airline carriers such as Air Canada, to leading academic institutions including The George Washington University, organizations throughout the world and across numerous industries are benefiting from Sun's open, secure and affordable systems.

"Our network computing vision and strategy are resonating well with our customers," said Anil Gadre, chief marketing officer Sun Microsystems Inc. "Sun is expanding its global footprint and working with new and existing customers around the world to remove costs from their business and help them better leverage IT to deliver value to their own customers. We're monetizing those opportunities as we execute against our plan to achieve financial goals for FY05."

"The George Washington University is building much of its next-generation computing environment on Sun software and hardware technologies, with Sun consultants playing a key role in putting together all of the pieces," said David Swartz, chief information officer of The George Washington University. "Our selection of Sun was on the basis of its long-term technology strategy, allowing us to deliver leading-edge solutions to faculty, students and administrators."

"Hitachi Data Systems ultimately selected Sun on the basis of two criteria," said Sean Godfrey, IT director of Hitachi Data Systems. "First of all, Sun's identity management solution enables true single sign-on access. Second, the provisioning capabilities within Sun Java System Identity Server software provide leading-edge functionality that exceeds any other solution offering in the market place today."

One of the customers purchasing new Sun systems for their price performance, security and interoperability in the fourth quarter is the National Research Council.

The National Research Council of the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource is a distributed network of collaborating institutes, universities and individuals across Canada dedicated to the provision of bioinformatics services to Canadian researchers. The NRC's Canadian Bioinformatics Rescue (CBR) is an early adopter of the Sun Fire E20K enterprise system. Replacing two older enterprise class systems, NRC-CBR chose the Sun Fire E20K server for its tremendous scalability and throughput computing potential. This Sun solution is a high-performance, high-end data center that supports the NRC-CBR with its chip multithreading technology. With new fault management technology, the Bioinformatics Grid offers extended service uptime and enhanced system manageability, all with a reduced cost of ownership. NRC-CBR installed Sun GridEngine Enterprise Edition test Grid across Canada at select member sites.