"Ecosystem partners such as QLogic are vital to the success of our Windows HPC Server 2008 launch as we work together to take the complexity out of high performance computing," said Vince Mendillo, director of HPC marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Incredibly easy to install, QLogic InfiniBand products should play a big part in the adoption of Windows HPC Server 2008, which dramatically simplifies the overall deployment, administration, and management of high performance networks without the need for specialized training or tools."

"With the introduction of Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft is providing a broad platform for software vendors and an expanded playing field for hardware manufacturers to enable new innovations in high performance computing," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "As a key ecosystem partner, we are actively collaborating with Microsoft to ensure that our InfiniBand products seamlessly integrate with this important new platform and deliver optimal performance."

QLogic Networking for HPC -- Run Faster, Scale Higher

QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of InfiniBand networking products for HPC including multi-protocol director switches, edge switches, host channel adapters (HCAs), and the necessary software to install, operate, and maintain high performance fabrics. Delivering the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth, QLogic InfiniBand adapters enable MPI and TCP applications to scale to thousands of nodes with unprecedented price-performance. The most comprehensive and flexible HPC cluster interconnect fabric solutions on the market, QLogic InfiniBand switches incorporate the industry's only management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes, helping to satisfy the growing demand for high performance computational clusters and grids.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

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Sun's new reference configurations help customers to quickly deploy data warehouses by simplifying the sizing process and product selection as well as providing horizontal and vertical configuration comparisons. Sun's complete offering for the BIDW industry couples Oracle(R) Database 10g and 11g with the high reliability and scalability of Sun's enterprise-class SPARC Enterprise servers and storage and the virtually unparalleled security, scalability and flexibility of Solaris -- the industry's #1 UNIX(R) OS.

Catalyzing the rapid build out of enterprise-class SPARC servers in emerging markets, Sun has invested in Partner Solution Centers in Delhi, India and Shenzhen, China, as well as the Oracle Solution Center in Chengdu, China, to further ISV and systems integrator (SI) adoption of Oracle Applications on the SPARC/Solaris platform. Sun also plans to roll out a range of sales initiatives on key market fronts including enterprise grids, CRM and data warehouse deployments and will launch the Sun-Oracle Partner Hub in Istanbul by the end of 2008.

Sun's midrange and high-end SPARC Enterprise server line was recently refreshed with new quad-core SPARC64(TM) VII processors, creating a highly scalable, enterprise-class virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80 percent better performance on commercial applications and up to 200 percent better performance on HPC workloads, using 44 percent less energy per core. The SPARC64 VII processor is also available as an option for seamless upgrades in existing SPARC Enterprise M4000 - M9000 servers.

Customer Adoption Explodes in Global Markets, Fueled by Record-Breaking Benchmark Performance of Sun's Enterprise Servers with Oracle Database and the Solaris 10 OS

Customers across the globe are adopting Sun's SPARC Enterprise servers and Sun storage for their Oracle deployments in markets including Web 2.0, human resources, and media and entertainment. More information on customers deploying Oracle on Sun systems and storage is available at http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/success/index.jsp.

Sun's SPARC Enterprise servers (from one to 64 sockets) with Oracle Database and the Solaris 10 OS, have posted seven world records since September 2007 on a diversity of prominent benchmarks - from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to Business Intelligence Data Warehousing (BIDW). More information on the SPARC Enterprise servers record-setting performance with Oracle is available at http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/collateral/index.jsp#benc hmarks (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.).

Upgrades and Free Test Trials Available Today for SPARC Enterprise Servers

Sun is also extending offers to current Sun enterprise system customers for its Sun SPARC Enterprise midrange and high-end servers. Upgrades from Sun Enterprise E4500, E5500, E6500, E10000, Sun Fire(TM) 3800, 4800, F6800, F12K, F15K, Sun Fire E6900, E20K and E25K systems are eligible for double trade-in value under the Sun(SM) Upgrade Advantage Program. More information is available at: http://www.sun.com/tradeins/index.jsp. Customers interested in Sun's SPARC Enterprise CMT servers may also try select systems free for 60 days via Sun's Try and Buy program. More information is available at http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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Increased trading volumes require enterprise-class systems and software that can process enormous amounts of data-reliably and efficiently-while also maintaining the ability to scale for future growth," said Ambreesh Khanna, Head of the Global Financial Services Industry Group, Sun Microsystems. "Through our collaboration with GigaSpaces, we are delivering proven, record-breaking solutions to meet and exceed the exacting demands of these customers."

As a result of Direct Market Access (DMA) and electronic and algorithmic trading, parallel processing and latency have become major issues to consider when receiving quotes and executing orders. This need is even more critical today as customers look for ways to quickly and cost-effectively scale their highly concurrent applications. Unfortunately, a large number of applications cannot be easily re-architected to scale out on multiple servers.

The SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server with third-generation CoolThreads technology running the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) addresses this problem with its scalable in-memory data grid. The joint solution provides the ability for applications to easily scale up to extreme and virtually unprecedented levels of throughput and latency, as demonstrated by the new Sun-GigaSpaces scalability benchmark.

"We have added more and more clients performing business transactions with the system coping with the demand for additional throughput with linear scalability," said Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces Founder and CTO. "The SPARC Enterprise T5240 managed to process 1.3 million transactions per second with 60 concurrent clients whereas the average throughput-per-client-thread is sustained at about 21,000 transactions per second. We are yet to see such linear scalability at these levels of application threads."

Sun's SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are one of the industry's first dual-socket CMT platforms, delivering the highest compute density ever, with up to 128 threads in as little as 1 RU of physical space, while maintaining maximum power efficiency to achieve outstanding levels of scalability and performance per watt. Threads are inexpensive in Sun's processor design, providing extra headroom for free.

The SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 system architecture incorporates third-generation CoolThreads Chip Multithreading (CMT) technology that provides users increased and extremely scalable computational density while staying within variously constrained envelopes of power and cooling. The very high levels of integration found in the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers helps reduce latency, lower costs, and improve security and reliability. In addition, balanced system design provides support for a wide range of application types-from Web services to high performance computing (HPC).

About GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments that provide an alternative to traditional application-servers. The company's technology allows businesses and developers to predictably scale on-line systems under any peak demand, guarantee real-time performance under any data processing load and seamlessly leverage the economies of scale offered by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids. The company leverages open-source and standard development frameworks to easily migrate existing systems from traditional middleware and application-server technologies with their inherent limitations, to the new virtual computing architectures.

GigaSpaces' customers include leading organizations in financial services, telecommunications, Web-commerce, On-line Gaming and the Internet media, where the need for mission-critical high-performance, reliability and scalability necessitates an alternative to traditional approaches.

GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 and has offices in the US, Europe and Asia.

For more information, please visit http://www.gigaspaces.com, or visit the company's blog at http://www.gigaspacesblog.com.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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Stesud: Open Source Makes Sense

When it identified that its existing software infrastructure needed refreshing, Belgium-based Stesud looked to Java as the technology upon which to build the company's new platform. An ERP provider with eGovernment clients that include the Belgian government, Stesud evaluated several solutions and selected Sun's GlassFish application server. As part of this multi-million dollar deal, Stesud also employed Sun's MySQL Enterprise subscription, allowing the company to dependably migrate to a more scalable and reliable Web database architecture for the future. Selected for its competitive pricing and performance levels, this deployment will allow Stesud to run its existing applications, in addition to new ones that it previously would have been unable to support.

"Our customers expect and demand the highest levels of software availability and performance imaginable, considering that Stesud's ERP solution is central to the functioning of major businesses and even governments," said Benoit Lemaire, CEO of Stesud. "Java-based GlassFish was the first piece of the puzzle we identified to meet our stringent new infrastructure requirements. As soon as Sun acquired MySQL, we decided to employ it as our new database rather than Oracle.

With Sun behind both GlassFish and MySQL, it was the best open source infrastructure combination for our needs and for our customers' operations."

Wotif.com, a leading Web site for business and leisure travelers to find last-minute discount bookings, selected Sun's MySQL database and GlassFish Enterprise Server to accommodate the site's growing user base. With more than three million users visiting the site on a monthly basis and 200,000 making travel reservations each month, Wotif.com needed a highly scalable and reliable platform to power its site. After evaluating several open source providers, Wotif.com selected Sun technology after a slew of tests the company ran, demonstrating the solutions' stability and performance capabilities.

GlassFish, an enterprise-quality Java EE 5 application server that offers advanced clustering, centralized administration, and best-in-class performance is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today. MySQL is one of the world's most popular open source database software.

Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems and packaged software.

For more details on these products, visit: http://www.glassfish.org and http://www.mysql.com.

As a proud sponsor of global Software Freedom Day on September 20 (http://softwarefreedomday.org/about), Sun is calling for community members and Sun employees across the world to participate in a global education program designed to improve awareness around the importance and benefits of open source technologies. These technologies include OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, Open JDK, NetBeans, MySQL, GlassFish, PostgreSQL and OpenSPARC. For more on Sun's open source offerings and Software Freedom celebration, please visit: www.sun.com/softwarefreedom

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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