Sun sells over 3000 StarfiresPalo Alto 25 September 2000 Sun today announced BellSouth as the buyer of the 3001st of its high-end Starfire system. Sun's most prolific server, the 64-CPU Starfire 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 agile and powerful Starfire is crucial to a company like
BellSouth whose regional and international data centre operations
handle an astonishing amount of data traffic across areas such as
sales and field force automation, marketing analysis and regulatory
reporting.
BellSouth has entrusted its enterprise database, enterprise
middleware and CRM service to Starfire servers. Nine of BellSouth's
Starfires are capacity-on-demand enabled systems.
According to IDC, Sun shipped or
upgraded 1,640 Starfire servers in 1999, each rated at 3,150
mainframe-equivalent MIPS when fully populated with 64 processors.
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