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Worldwide Computer Products News, Sept 16, 2005
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Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), a computer technology company, has revealed that six of the world's top ten data warehouses on the UNIX platform by number of rows/records and normalised data volume, run on Sun platforms.
Sun said the warehouses are listed in consulting firm Winter Corporation's 2005 TopTen Program which identifies the top customer database and data warehousing implementations with a minimum 1TB of data. Sun claimed the largest data warehouse in data volume manages 93.5TB of data and the largest in number of rows/records manages 533.7m.
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Sun said the findings show the scalability of the Solaris operating system (OS) running on UltraSPARC processor-based servers and confirms that the platform is able to meet growing processing needs without reducing response times. In addition, Sun said the results confirm the reliability of its Sun Fire servers, powered by Solaris OS and UltraSPARC processors and the power of its business intelligence data warehousing (BIDW) offerings.
Sun customers were also found to run the top six online transaction processing sites for highest UNIX workload and the world's largest scientific system, with 364TB of data by normalised data volume, was found to run on Sun.
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