SUN'S STARFIRE(TM) GAINS INDUSTRY WIDE MOMENTUM WITH MORE THAN 100
UNITS SHIPPED TO RETAILERS WORLDWIDE LEADING RETAILERS TURN TO SUN'S
Starfire Server to Handle a Variety of Tasks Such as Seasonal Traffic
Volumes and Unpredictable Business Demands
NEW YORK, Feb 2, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sun Microsystems,
Inc., (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced a growing momentum behind Sun's
Enterprise(TM) 10000 server in the retail sector. Since its
introduction, the server (popularly known as the Starfire) has shipped
well over 100 Starfires to leading retailers, both traditional and
online.
The Starfire server, a mainframe-class server whose price starts around
$1 million, performs in mission-critical environments that demand a
wide range of functions to enable "best of breed" performance while
ensuring the competitive advantages of reliability, availability and
scalability. The Starfire owes its success to high-performance,
mainframe-like features and its functionality and ability to meet the
rising demands of today's most compute-intensive applications while
operating the robust Solaris(TM) Operating Environment.
"Business agility and flexibly are critical factors for retailers
competing in the new millennium," said Bob DeLaney, group manager
worldwide market development for Sun Microsystems. "Traditionally,
retailers have relied upon mainframes to run mission-critical
enterprise functions. Sun's mainframe class Starfire systems easily
meet these traditional enterprise, needs and at the same time deliver
the unparalleled network computing capabilities that retailers need to
web-enable their systems to compete in the dot.com age."
Retail powerhouses such as OfficeMax and Sears, multi-channel retailers
such as Eddie Bauer, as well as online retailers such as CDNOW and
Spiegel have chosen the Starfire system to run mission-critical
applications ranging from electronic commerce to warehousing,
merchandise management and enterprise resource planning. The growing
list of US retailers relying on the high-availability and mainframe
class performance of the Starfire servers covers a range of retail
segments such as department stores, specialty retailers, grocery
stores, drug store chains and specialty office supplies.
"It is clear that Sun's momentum in retail data centers around the
world is increasing at a rapid pace," said Joyce Becknell, director of
the Platforms group with the Aberdeen group. "Aggressive retailers are
implementing these large scale servers to run their most intensive
mission-critical applications in the reliable Solaris environment."
About the Starfire The mainframe-class Sun Enterprise 10000, or
Starfire, server provides up to 64 processors and 16 Dynamic System
Domains; Sun is the only UNIX (R) platform vendor to offer these
features. The Starfire server enables customers to run the most
demanding, multi-terabyte applications for data warehousing, decision
support, online transaction processing and data analytics on a single,
scalable server.
The system hosts more than 12,700 applications for the Solaris
Operating Environment software and can be clustered with up to four
nodes for even greater uptime. The Sun Enterprise 10000 server contains
up to 64 GB of shared memory and can support more than 20 TB of storage
to confidently handle extreme data warehousing situations.
Sun in Retail Sun's global retail clients include discount and mass
merchandisers, hard and soft goods specialty businesses, department
stores, electronic retailing merchants, grocery chains, convenience
store chains, chain drug stores, catalog and home shopping.
Fast growing Internet retail companies are building their technology
foundations on Sun Enterprise servers and storage. Sun offers the
scalability to meet the unpredictable demands of the seasons and the
change in business. Many retailers, including those mentioned above,
trust their mission-critical applications such as merchandising, order
processing, corporate financial, customer relationship management and
decision support to Sun and build their platforms on Sun Enterprise
Servers.
About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision
-- The Network Is The Computer(TM) - has propelled Sun Microsystems,
Inc., to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength
hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow
companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $12.4 billion in
annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the
World Wide Web at sun.com.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Starfire, Sun
Enterprise and' The Network Is The Computer' are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States
and in other countries.
SOURCE Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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