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November 9, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Building on the proven methodology of its successful Cluster Platform 220/1000, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) announced yesterday its
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next-generation, entry-level Cluster Platform 280/3, which provides
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significantly greater memory and storage flexibility. This is the fourth
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offering to be added to the family of SunTone Cluster Platforms.
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Powered by redundant UltraSPARC III chip-based Sun Fire 280R servers and
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highly scalable, mirrored Sun StorEdge T3 arrays, the pre-integrated and
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tested Cluster Platform 280/3 is designed to provide high availability with
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Sun Cluster 3.0′s failover protection and load balancing technologies while
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decreasing complexity via a single, integrateable stack. Sun’s integrateable
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platform, unlike other system vendors, provides a building-block approach to
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customer solutions. As a result, delivery is accelerated and customer
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deployment times have been cut by up to 80 percent, which ultimately can
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equate to better customer TCO.
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“Sun’s family of SunTone Cluster Platforms arrive on the dock
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ready-to-deploy, simplifying installation and offering a pre-integrated,
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interoperability-tested solution to meet our critical needs for uptime and
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reliability. Choosing Sun’s Cluster Platform 220/1000 was an easy,
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cost-effective choice for us,” says Claus Bo Nielsen, CTO of estructure.net,
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a Managed Service Provider in Denmark. “We have a banking client that
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requires the utmost in security and availability. The Cluster Platform
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220/1000 met our client’s crucial needs for high availability, reliability,
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and security for its e-business applications. Installation time for
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implementing this SunTone Cluster Platform into their specific environment
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was cut from two months to just days, translating into big savings for both
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estructure.net and our customer.”
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The Cluster Platform 280/3 offers additional enhancements to meet customers’
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needs for memory and storage flexibility, reduced complexity and swifter
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deployment. New features include:
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Memory flexibility – 4GB or 8GB;
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Storage flexibility – 327GB or 660GB;
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Choice of volume management software:
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Solstice Disk Suite 4.2.1 or Veritas Volume manager 3.1.1;
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Pre-installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.0 NFS High Availability
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agents; and
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Sun Management Center 3.0 integrated to provide system monitoring
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for the entire cluster.
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Sun’s Cluster Platform 280/3 provides upfront savings with a pre-architected
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and engineered infrastructure designed to address high availability needs
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and eliminate the time-consuming evaluation and design process. The platform
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is designed and tested to meet the SunTone Program’s practices for quality
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delivery of web-enabled services. Led by Sun, the SunTone Program is one of
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the first collaborative industry efforts to define these standards for high
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quality of service.
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Part of Sun’s growing portfolio of integrated and tested SunTone Cluster
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Platforms, the entry-level Cluster Platform 280/3 can be used as a file
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server, Web server, or small database platform in a broad range of
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industries, including energy, Internet services, education and healthcare.
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The new platform’s key components include:
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Redundant Sun Fire 280R servers with two 750MHz UltraSPARC III
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processors on each server;
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Mirrored Sun StorEdge T3 arrays;
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Solaris 8 Operating Environment, 07/01;
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Sun Cluster 3.0, 07/01; and
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Sun Netra T1 AC200 management server.
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Available worldwide immediately from Sun and its authorized resellers,
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pricing for the Cluster Platform 280/3 begins at US$173,500.
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