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Publishing Group Reaps Benefits from Sun’s Open Storage

Global publishing group Elanders provides “infomedia” content in print and online as well as archives documents and images on systems at its main office and two remote sites. With its technology reaching its end of life in 2008, Elander began researching the market and decided to deploy a 66TB Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System. The group reports it has cut administration time by 50%, power consumption by up to 50%, reduced customer costs by 40%, and its infrastructure is 10 times as scalable.

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Sun BluePrints Describes Architecture, Provides Performance Information

A Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics for determining proper sizing of systems. According to the authors, the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution provides an integrated platform to deploy a highly reliable Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure that delivers simplicity, speed, and savings. Read the BluePrints piece to learn more.

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Offers as Much as 30% Increase in Performance

Sun is adding a 30 percent performance boost to Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System with the addition of new CPUs providing up to 24 cores. Enhancements include improved application performance through enhanced iSCSI SAN support and a boost in performance for Oracle databases. Higher network performance can be achieved with up to four times more bandwidth (40Gb/sec) and lower network latency through InfiniBand (IB), along with twice the DRAM cache - up to 512GB.

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