Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Succeed with Sun


By Kazu Oda

The use of energy is one of the defining topics of our age. The personal expense of powering your server for the daily operation of your business can be quite significant. Also, the toll that all of this cumulative power takes on the power grid is quite sizable in some cities. Aside from the expense, there is also the potential for devastation in lost information, should something go terribly wrong.

Just such a focus has been endeavoured in the EU. A great model for the success of streamlining the efficiency of data servers is the German city of Bad Soden am Taunus. Bad Soden am Taunus is a small city of approximately 21.500 residents.

Sun Software is all about efficiency. Amazing products that will save you money and energy are their specialty. Their servers have been tested and proven in real world usage. A few examples of what they have to offer are:

The Sun Fire X4540 servers - boast extreme data access speeds at a very low price. It is 8 cores of AMD Opteron processing with 48 TB of storage in a 4RU server all for around $21.995+. It is half the size and half the cost of competing systems. It runs Solaris OS, Windows and Linux.

There are products and techniques in use right now that are achieving great success in doing just that. Let's have a look at one of them.

Another success story is from Europe's second largest web host, STRATO AG. With over 1 million clients being offered their own home pages, on-line shops, and server lease, the need for efficiency is obvious. Over 100 old servers were replaced with 14 Sun X4200 and 28 Sun T2000 systems.

This greatly reduced the amount of space needed for storage by updating old hardware with new products that maximize CPU and overall performance specs. STRATO's success was the combination of consolidation and energy efficient upgrades.

This system provides valuable disaster recovery by backing up your desktops with a much better fault tolerance than the "in-house" traditional desktop and server system.

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