The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure. 

This tool allows you to enter data about your existing server environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing x86 server technology with the latest generation Sun servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. 

Sun offers services that assist IT users with the opportunity to start evaluating open storage architecture strategies and evaluating how an open storage architecture can better support their organization' business and budgetary goals. 

This document is intended for executives evaluating the use of a horizontally scalable grid for database application deployment, as well as project managers, system engineers, integration specialists, and other technical staff looking to design, implement, and tune database applications in a grid computing environment. 

Server virtualization delivers many business benefits to datacenters today. Choosing the right server virtualization product is an important business decision, and Sun has the virtualization and server technology portfolio - along with the experience - to help you make the right one. 

This paper is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs) offers dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance. 

On the Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, you will find storage resources from leading industry experts exploring the technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD. 

This data sheet highlights the features and facts for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest for any type of database workload, and the only database machine that runs transaction processing applications. 

When Sun Country Airlines needed a solution to give employees data about flights and information to improve customer service and operations management, they turned to Blackberry. The Solution? Six highly useful applications were created for 50 BlackBerry smartphones to help airline employees check everything from delayed flights to lost baggage. 

Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance. 

This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications. 

Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership. 

This document shows the methodologies to be followed for performing backup and recovery operation of the Oracle databases using the snapshot, clone and rollback features of the Sun Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System.