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- Sun Fire
- A server brand from Sun that embraces a variety of models. Sun Fire units start with small rack-based servers using AMD and Intel processors all the way to huge...
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- Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1
- The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service DNS servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Solaris 9, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., BIND, Sun Fire, Dell PowerEdge, Principled Technologies, Dell PowerEdge R900, Sun Solaris, Domain Names, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on Dell R900 With Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition
- The Dell PowerEdger R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical database applications from Oracle 9i running on Solaris 9 to Oracle 11g, the latest release of Oracle's data management platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL 5.2). This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Sun Solaris 9, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Oracle9i, Principled Technologies, Dell PowerEdger R900, Data Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Sun Solaris, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-11-13
- Using Sun Fire X4540 Server With Zmanda Recovery Manager 2.2 for MySQL Database
- This paper discusses how to quickly configure and deploy the Sun Fire X4540 server with Zmanda Recovery Manager 2.2 for MySQL databases. MySQL software has become the world's most popular open source database because of its ease of use, high performance, and high reliability. Regardless of how one uses MySQL...
- Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Sun Fire, Open Source, Databases, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software
- Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all sizes. Yet, many organizations do not have the staff or budget to purchase and manage complex and expensive backup and recovery software products. The Sun Fire X4540...
- Tags: Software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup Server, Sun Fire, Backups, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 Server Architecture
- In recent years, emerging applications and expanding web services have fueled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives focused on information sharing and continuous data availability. As a result, IT data centers experienced rapid growth as the number of applications, the population of...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Data Centers, Real Estate, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Sun Fire X2250 Server Architecture: A Compact, High-Performance Server Optimized for Technical Computing Workloads
- Organizations are increasingly dependent upon computational capacity to reach business goals. As a result, IT departments face pressure to build infrastructure that satisfies escalating demands and throughput requirements. Mindful of budgets, IT managers often look to a variety of competing sources for low cost industry standard servers. However, finding entry-level...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance, Sun Fire, Technical Computing, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Research & Development, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Some brief info about Sun's latest shade of green blades and servers
- Sun is using 55-watt Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to help amp down not a typo its latest Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems. The new models include the Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 (which are being positioned as storage solutions for things like database applications, high-performance computing or...
- Tags: Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Proven Virtualisation Scalability With The Sun Fire X4600 Server
- This white paper looks at how organisation can consolidate a number of applications from a number of under-utilised servers and ease the space, power, and cooling crunch. Consolidate from many to few servers to help reduce maintenance costs. As a side benefit, upgrade legacy applications to run on modern hardware...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-05-13
- SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology
- In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives focused on information sharing and continuous data availability. As a result, IT data centres experienced rapid growth as the number of applications, the population of...
- Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Intel Corp., Real Estate, Strategy, Servers, Business Operations, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
- Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can...
- Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers
- PlanetOut Inc. is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender LGBT community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability strategy for growing enterprise. The company's challenge was to improve application performance and reduce server downtime. PlanetOut consolidated its...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- VoIP Services Provider Dials in to Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Servers to Help Vonage Lower Total Operating Costs
- Vonage is a leading provider of VoIP telephone services with more than two million subscribers, based in Holmdel, New Jersey. The Company's technology enables anyone to make and receive calls almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available. The company wanted to accommodate rapid growth in subscriber base to establish...
- Tags: VoIP Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Sun Fire, Company, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Servers, Networking, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Deploying Sun Java Enterprise System on the Sun Fire T2000 Server Using Solaris Containers
- Improving the manageability and efficiency of enterprise infrastructure services poses a significant challenge to many organizations. The problem is compounded by the proliferation of individual servers used to run key enterprise applications including directory, portal, identity, mail, and calendar services. A recent Gartner report indicates that the power, space, and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java, Sun Fire, Sun Java Enterprise System, Enterprise Infrastructure Service, Sun Solaris, Servers, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-10-02
- Deploying SAS Intelligence Storage on the Sun Fire X4600 Server and the Sun StorageTek 6540 Storage
- The Sun Fire X4600 is an 8-socket dual core AMD processor server that offers excellent performance for SAS applications. Sun and SAS have published performance results of SAS Intelligence Storage technologies running on the Sun Fire X45001, a 2-socket dual core AMD server that includes 24 TB of physical storage....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, SAS Institute, StorageTek, Sun Fire, Sun Fire X4600, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Deploying SAS Intelligence Storage on the Sun Fire X4600 Server and the Sun StroageTek 6540 Storage: A Solution for True Scalability Tested in the Sun Solution Center
- The Sun Fire X4600 is an 8-socket dual core AMD processor server that offers excellent performance for SAS applications. Sun and SAS have published performance results of SAS Intelligence Storage technologies running on the Sun Fire X45001, a 2-socket dual core AMD server that includes 24 TB of physical storage....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Scalability, SAS Institute, Sun Fire, Sun Fire X4600, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Optimizing Oracle's Siebel Applications on Sun Fire Servers With Coolthreads Technology
- In an effort to ensure the most demanding global enterprises can meet their deployment requirements, engineers from Oracle's Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems continue to work to improve Oracle's Siebel Server performance and stability on the Solaris Operating System OS. This paper is an effort to make available tuning and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Siebel Systems Inc., Sun Fire, Sun Fire Server, Sun Solaris, Performance Management, Productivity, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Sun Fire X4600/X4600 M2 Server Architecture
- As the first of its kind, the Sun Fire X4600 server is the fastest, most scalable, and energy-efficient four-way to 16-way x64 (x86 64-bit) server. It scales quickly from four sockets to eight sockets simply by adding processor boards, all in a compact 4RU form factor. With its multiple operating...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2007-05-01
- The Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server and Proven Virtualization Scalability
- In most cases, consolidation requires virtualization technology to allow multiple operating system instances and applications to coexist on a single server without interference. With products supporting virtualization and resource partitioning reaching back more than a decade, Sun Microsystems offers customers a range of technologies from which to choose. Dynamic System...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster: Reference Configurations With Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers
- The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster includes servers, networking, interconnects, and software installed in a Sun Rack cabinet. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing HPC applications such as scientific research, Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering MCAE, Electronic Design...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server and Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server System Architecture
- Sun Fire x64 servers featuring AMD Opteron processors are more than just a family of servers. These systems provide the modular infrastructure organizations need to rapidly deploy new solutions and adjust to changing business demands. The Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire X2200 servers set a new standard for low...
- Tags: System Architecture, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
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