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How-to Guide Demonstrates Procedures

Step-by-step instructions have been published for using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2008.Q4) as a repository for the PostgreSQL database for the ADempiere open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. Penned by Praneet Tiwani, the technical article provides all the configuration details as well as installation of ADempiere and test procedures.

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Technical How-to Guide

Praneet Tiwari sets out to prove the feasibility of using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL database with the SugarCRM application. This technical BigAdmin feature article uses Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System release 2008.Q4 and a Sun Fire X4540 server configured with Ubuntu 8.1.0, MySQL 5.1.30 Community Server Edition, and SugarCRM Community Edition.

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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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New Istanbul Processor 2435 Now Available

There are two new PTO options for Sun Fire X4540 with six-core AMD Opteron Processor 2435. The two new PTOs offer either two AMD Opteron 2435 CPUs, 32 GB memory and 24 TB of storage or two 2435 CPUs, 32 GB memory and 48 TB of storage. The desired system will be preinstalled with Solaris 10 Update 7 OS. The new CPU Opteron 2435 processor has six cores in each CPU as compared to the quad core CPU for higher throughput I/O and better data throughput rate for each CPU.

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Social Networking Service Opts for Sun Fire X4540 Server

When the six-year old social networking service hi5 doubled its user base in 2008, it became clear to management that a robust means of keeping pace with growth was called for. The 400+ TB of data the service manages just keeps growing, so the company looked to Sun for answers concerning their IT infrastructure. hi5 sought to scale its infrastructure to accommodate anticipated growth; reduce IT costs; provide for the management of hundreds of TBs of stored data; and maintain an easily scalable and manageable storage infrastructure. Sun came up with the answers.

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