More than 100 Starfires in retail
New York 24 Jan 00 Since its introduction, SUN has has shipped well over 100 ES10000 Starfires to leading retailers, both traditional and online. 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 mainframe-class Sun Enterprise 10000, or Starfire, server provides up to 64 processors and 16 Dynamic System Domains; Sun is the only UNIX® 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.
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