Bangkok--October 24--Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sun Microsystems Inc. recently announced that UNIX Review magazine selected Sun's mainframe-class Enterprise TM 10000 server (popularly known as StarfireTM) as outstanding server of the year. UNIX Review credited Sun with designing an innovative system that delivers excellent RAS (reliability, availability, and scalability) capabilities and is boosting Sun's competitiveness in the data center.
"The Starfire should go a long way toward dispelling the workstation-only perception of Sun," said Ralph Barker, senior technical editor, UNIX Review. "The server provides outstanding scalability, manageability and high-availability features while maintaining compatibility with the existing SPARC TM SolarisTM software base."
Starfire -- A Mainframe Alternative
Since March, the Starfire UNIX server, designed to run alongside legacy systems, has gained momentum over IBM and Hewlett Packard for customers that want to consolidate systems; build new data warehouses, intranets or decision-support systems; run Enterprise Resource Planning applications (SAP, Bann, Oracle and PeopleSoft); or who need to upgrade to a more powerful, scalable system that will grow with the business needs of a company.
The Starfire server can have up to 64 processors and provides customers with value and reliability for mission-critical applications. The system's RAS features include Dynamic System Domains, Dynamic Reconfiguration, System Service Processor (SSP), Alternate Pathing and no single point of failure functionality.
"With Starfire, our goal was to design a system that delivers all the power and stability of the mainframe model, while maintaining the flexibility and cost-effective management model of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) networked computing," said Khun Therasak Tangpoonphonvivat, Sun's Country Director for Thailand. "This award, and our continued growth in the UNIX server market, are clear signs that we achieved this goal."
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $8.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com
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