January 18, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web technologies provider Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced on Thursday that three new customers have deployed Sun Fire CoolThreads servers powered by the Solaris 10 operating system.
Vonage, PlanetOut and Concentric have each deployed Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers to increase space, efficiency and savings in power and cooling.
The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, available for just over a year, are two of the fastest ramping products in Sun’s history, says the company. Combined they represent more than $100 million in revenue per fiscal quarter and have played a key role in helping Sun achieve three straight quarters of server revenue growth, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
“The T1000 and T2000 are key pistons in our growth engine, delivering virtually unmatched performance and energy efficiency versus the competition, delivering a range of benefits for customers and providing a vehicle for us to enter new accounts,” says John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems. “With the reliability and scalability of Solaris 10, these machines are winning new customers for Sun every day.”
