Open World Highlights: Scott McNealy Keynote

For more than 27 years Sun Microsystems has been delivering extreme innovation, enabling customers in every major global industry to achieve competitive advantage. In every corner of the data center, Sun has unleashed some of the industry’s most profound technical breakthroughs. 

Click here to listen to highlights from Sun Chairman of the Board and Co-founder Scott McNealy’s Oracle Open World keynote.  

Open World Highlights: Benchmarks

With over 400 world-record benchmarks set by our products to date, Sun doesn’t just develop solutions, we set new performance standards. Five new benchmarks were announced at Oracle Open World.

	The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Delivered Two World Record Results on Industry-Standard SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark
	The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Servers Support Record-Breaking 50,000 Oracle BI EE Users
	Sun's Midrange Server with FlashFire Technology Delivers Record Performance on Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll 9.0
	The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Dominates Prominent ERP Benchmark
	The Sun Blade Server Module and Oracle Database Post Three Records on Two-Tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Parallel Standard Application Benchmark

Accelerate Your Database Applications

Launched at Oracle Open World, the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array is the world’s fastest and most power efficient flash array for accelerating database applications. It redefines database performance, cutting transaction times in half and doubling application throughput. The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array lets you cost-effectively scale your performance and capacity needs efficiently without impacting data availability so you can meet your growing business needs.

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Major Performance Boost for SPARC Enterprise Servers

At Oracle Open World, Sun and Fujitsu announced new, faster quad-core SPARC64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the Sun SPARC Enterprise server line. The new processors boost performance by up to 20 percent.

Sun Plus Oracle Is Faster

Last week Oracle announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark result for Oracle^® Database 11g running on Sun SPARC^® servers with CMT technology and the Sun Solaris Operating System (1). This result proves that the Oracle-Sun combination runs faster than IBM DB2 running on IBM’s flagship Power 595(2).