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Reduced Power, IT Maintenance and Improved Workplace Environment

With a customer relationship management (CRM) system running on desktop PCs connected to a datacenter, burgeoning U.K. building supplier Screwfix needed an upgrade in speed and efficiency to deal with its expanding customer base. Following a proof of concept, Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client terminals were deployed, resulting in a reduction in call help-desk time by 90% and power consumption by 75%. Workplace performance and environment also improved.

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Solutions Accommodate Growth, Improve Service Delivery

Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) is a public utility that delivers voice, data and cable services to 3,500 customers in the cities of Monmouth and Independence, Oregon, using Sun technologies. Faced with the need to expand services while minimizing costs, providing for high performance and availability and scaling to support rapid growth, MINET looked to Sun for the servers, unified storage, flash memory, thin clients, and virtualization necessary to meet these business needs.

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Sun’s Open Networks Systems Wins Over Studio With Performance, Price, Simplicity

Wanting to accommodate a tight production schedule and render more digital content in a shorter time frame, Blue Sky Studios started investigating how to expand its computing capacity for the film “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.” The studio decided to test drive Sun Blade X6250 server modules under Sun’s Try and Buy program, and ended up deploying a Sun Constellation System, 120 Sun Ultra 24 workstations and Sun’s Enterprise Installation Services. The solution provided four times better performance than Blue Sky’s previous solution.

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