Sun x64 Servers and Open Storage Deliver Record-Setting Performance on Enterprise Applications

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today demonstrated the robust performance, price/performance and density of its Open Network Systems with multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. These records highlight the significant infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's Open Network Systems deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage. Sun also announced outstanding performance on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test.

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server delivered a new eight-processor, non-clustered price/performance record on the TPC-H@300GB benchmark, highlighting the data warehousing and decision support system capabilities of the server. The TPC-H benchmark is designed to evaluate the performance of various BIDW and Decision Support Systems (DSS) systems at various database sizes, also referred to as scale factor (SF). Sun's first TPC-H publication using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 beats the competing HP DL785 server by nearly 15 percent on price/performance and uses 20 percent fewer disks(1).