Companies Across the Globe Continue to Choose Sun Systems to Power Rock Solid Enterprises
From Financial and Legal Professionals to Animated Film Producers, Broadcast
Companies to Governments, Enterprises in North America, South America, Europe,
Asia and Australia Select Sun Solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced more than 30 customers have selected Sun
for solutions as diverse as mainframe migration and data warehousing, to 3D
animation rendering and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Financial
institutions, telecommunications providers, governments, retailers,
manufacturers and universities around the world chose Sun products and
services to increase application efficiency, secure large amounts of data and
respond to market and business needs.
Sun continues to focus on creating the technologies and business
solutions that give our customers a competitive edge, said Jonathan Schwartz,
president and chief operating officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Our
competitors that believe technology no longer matters have long since turned
their focus to flat panel TVs and consumer appliances — while we continue to
drive down the cost of datacenter operation, drive up the efficiency of
network operations, and open more opportunity to secure and simplify
businesses worldwide.
Recent customers around the world choosing Sun include:
Channel 7 (Australia) — A major Australian television broadcaster,
Channel 7, successfully completed a mainframe migration to Sun Solaris(TM)
servers and storage with the help of Sun datacenter readiness and installation
services.
Compania De Cervecerias Unidas (CCU)– This Chilean beverage company opted
for a total end-to-end solution with the Sun StorEdge(TM) 6920 system.
Dygra Films — A leading European 3D computer-animated film production
company, Dygra Films, chose Sun Microsystems for its grid farm computing
solution for compute-intensive rendering applications and 3D animation. The
Sun solution that improved production during the rendering process by
50 percent and removed a 3D animation processing bottleneck included both
Opteron(TM)- and UltraSPARC(R)-based servers, the Solaris 10 operating system
and Sun StorEdge storage products.
Far EasTone Telecom — Looking for help with video streaming, server
consolidation and mobile number portability, Taiwans third largest mobile
operator selected Sun Fire(TM) 6900 and Sun Fire2900 servers.
Filogix Inc. — Canadas premier provider of electronically enabled
business solutions to the real estate and mortgage-related industries, Filogix
Inc. invested in the 64-bit UltraSPARC IV-based Sun Fire V890 server to
deliver a range of hosted services to financial services clients across the
country.
Ford Werke GmbH — Ford Germany is creating classic CAD and
next-generation CAD environment for designing cars and components using Sun
workstations.
Fortis Bank Netherlands — Fortis Bank in the Netherlands provides a
substantial package of financial services to retail customers and businesses.
Employing 2 Sun Fire 25K servers running Solaris OS, Fortis Bank provides a
flexible, mission critical compute platform for several merchant bank
activities. This solution is architected in a twin centre concept providing
full redundancy for 24 x 7 operations.
LVA Rheinprovinz — Responsible for the pensions of 6.6 million workers in
the largest German state, Nordrhein-Westfalen, LVA Rheinprovinz selected Sun
for a digital archiving project of 1.2 million files or 100 million pages.
Requiring the highest level of data integrity and optimization of processes,
LVA selected Sun Solaris servers, storage and implementation services.
Nottingham University — Nottingham University, a leading European Marie
Curie center training students from across Europe in cancer research and care,
selected Sun to build a 500-plus-node central compute grid. This central grid
facility with over three Teraflops of peak computational performance
complements existing departmental grids and can be accessed transparently by
multiple research departments as well as by commercial partners.
OfficeMax — OfficeMax, a leading supplier of office products and services
to businesses of all sizes and to consumers, recently purchased new Sun
systems for additional computing capacity and added throughput performance as
part of its refresh and upgrade for its SAP solutions. OfficeMax purchased (2)
Sun Fire 25K, and (14) Sun Fire V1280 servers for one of the largest retail
implementations in the world run entirely on Sun systems. Sun systems will
power more than 1,000 retail stores while also supporting the OfficeMax.com
e-commerce application. OfficeMax is migrating from previous Sun systems to
accommodate future business growth, and has stayed with Sun technology for the
last eight years as a commitment to the Sun and OfficeMax relationship.
St. Francis Xavier University — Nova Scotias St. Francis Xavier
University, one of Canadas leading educational institutions, enhanced its
high performance computing environment with a Sun Fire V20z Opteron-based grid
system, running the Solaris 10 operating system.
SFR — This leading French mobile communications provider invested in Java
Enterprise System (JES).
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP — A global leader in innovative legal
services, Sonnenschein selected the Sun StorEdge 6920 system to consolidate
their storage for increased manageability and efficiency, while maintaining a
high degree of reliability and protection of their data assets.
Stadtwerke Trier — This German utility companys investment in the Sun
StorEdge 6920 system helped reduce administration costs, increase efficiency,
and manage more effectively in an SAP environment.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — One of the worlds leading
fundamental science research laboratories, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
purchased nearly three hundred Sun Fire V20z servers to be used in advanced
research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) — A leading Integrated
Circuit foundry in the world, TSMC elected to embed the Sun Java Enterprise
System into a solution for a new customer claim system in its popular customer
portal, TSMC Online.
Talkline GmbH & Co. — Seeking to reduce total cost of ownership by
modernizing its storage landscape, this German mobile telecommunications
company is running its financial and billing applications on Sun.
Swedbank — One of the largest retail banks in the Nordic region, Swedbank
will utilize three Sun Fire 6900 servers (in conjunction with Solaris 10
Operating System container technology) while incorporating Suns pay-per-use
metering technology within its data center to lower the total cost of
ownership of its UNIX(R) infrastructure.
Additional customers investing in Sun solutions include Bank of Shanghai,
Sun Hung Kai Securities Ltd. (top Hong Kong securities firm), Bankinter,
Cabildo de Tenerife, China Unicom, El Mecurio, Government of Aragon, Nanjin
Local Tax, O2 Germany GmbH & Co., Taiwan National Health Institute, University
of Deusto, University of Granada and Politectica de Valencia.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — The Network Is The
Computer(TM) — 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 http://sun.com.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, Sun
StorEdge, Java and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and
other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd.
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