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Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers

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Overview PlanetOut Inc. is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability strategy for growing enterprise. The company's challenge was to improve application performance and reduce server downtime. PlanetOut consolidated its Web and application tiers using Sun Fire T1000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System. The Containers feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System enables each server to handle the workload of up to 10 older machines.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	HTML
Date Published	December 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Sun Solaris, Server Consolidation

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application servers

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crm software

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The new products, under the code name Advanced Product Line (APL), will replace Sun's Sun Fire line and Fujitsu's Primepower products, the companies said. The chips can run the same software, including Sun's Solaris operating system, but require...

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Servers
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