The Benton Public Utility District in Kennewick Washington practices a strong public service ethic and, as part of its continuing dedication to providing its 45,000 customers the best possible service, the utility has migrated its Oracle PeopleSoft applications to browser-based versions. The result was a disappointing degradation in the performance of certain key applications. Benton Public Utility turned to the Sun Try and Buy Program for a solution.
Virtualization has really paid off for Dow Corning Corporation, where a three-member IT UNIX team using the Solaris 10 Operating System manages to deliver all the IT services this $4.4 billion multinational company requires at a substantial savings. Dow has been able to virtualize and manage servers quickly and efficiently by exploiting the Containers and ZFS features in the Solaris 10 OS as a key part of its adaptive computing model.
Rainer Walter's case study entitled "Phone Call Surveillance With CopperEye Greenwich on Sun Fire X4540 Server" describes the results of using the CopperEye Greenwich Server software, v2.1.0.6 designed for the fast retrieval of records from flat data files, on a high-density storage Sun Fire X4540 server with 2x AMD Opteron quad-core CPU, 2.3 GHz, 32 GB RAM and 48 X 500 GB SATA disks running the Solaris 10 Operating System. This case study describes the results of a usage test for phone call surveillance under storage and analysis requirements defined by a directive of the European Parliament and Council.
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