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Scalability and Reliability Lead French Radio Broadcaster to Sun Technologies

Needing to completely rebuild its Windows-based Web portal and ASP.NET-based applications to support a larger audience with new services, radio broadcaster RTL France began shopping around for a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and easy to manage IT environment that would be reliable and scalable. Open source solutions were its preference. RTL France decided to build a new portal infrastructure using Sun CoolThreads and x64 servers, running Solaris 10. For its applications, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server proved fast and scalable.

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Integrates SAM-FS, StorageTek QFS

Sun has announced new configuration options for its Infinite Archive System (IAS), a fully integrated solution that allows customers to manage huge amounts of unstructured, and/or structured static data at significant savings over disk-only based archive systems. With this option, customers will find Sun StorageTek QFS and SAM-FS software, running on the robust Solaris Operating System integrated into IAS, enabling customers to use automated policy-based management.

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