Current Success Stories Company Name Description LBBW Luxemburg Sun Professional Services created a high-performance IT infrastructure for a Luxembourg bank. Based on Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System, the solution supports and maximizes the availability of a new application that will help drive growth and reduce IT costs. Tessenderlo Group As its business expanded, this leading chemical manufacturer faced growing data-archiving and high-availability requirements for its SAP systems. To address these challenges, Tessenderlo replaced its HP/Compaq hardware with Sun servers and storage virtualization technology, resulting in increased uptime and providing 100 percent data availability at a very affordable TCO. Yuntaa A Belgian Web 2.0 application and online storage supplier needed a scalable and proven technology to handle the many demands of its technologies, including critical Oracle databases. The company upgraded to a Sun solution featuring the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server, the Sun StorageTek 6140 array, the Sun StorageTek SL500 modular library system, and the Solaris 10 Operating System. Carrefour Belgium A major retailer wanted an integration environment to support application standardization for its 650 stores. It implemented a service-oriented architecture using Sun-based open source products GlassFish and the Java Composite Application Platform Suite. The solution helped the company to streamline processes for peak efficiency and dramatically reduce IT costs. Infrabel To ensure punctuality and safety on the Belgian railway network, Infrabel developed custom software that monitors the position of trains in real time at every point on the network. Sun Ray 2 Virtual Clients connected to Sun Ray Servers and Sun Fire V890 servers powered by the Solaris 10 OS, form the backbone of the system. Tele Atlas A supplier of digital maps and data to some of the world's leading navigation and location-based services. Thanks to Sun Blade 8000 modular systems, the company's data centre has the power and flexibility to support leading-edge services for years to come. SAP Belgium Education Center To improve application availability and energy efficiency, the training center replaced its workstations with a virtual desktop environment from Sun Microsystems that includes Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software, Sun Ray virtual display clients, and VMware ESX Server software. Province of Flemish Brabant The IT department of this regional government in Belgium had only two system engineers to support an entire province, so it needed highly reliable, easy-to-manage IT systems. The province chose Sun servers and the Solaris 10 Operating system for its mission-critical applications and has had no email system failures and only one major physical server failure in 13 years. DDB Belgium An award-winning advertising agency consolidated legacy servers onto a virtualized server platform based on two Sun Fire X4200 servers running Solaris 10 Operating System, a Sun StorageTek 2540 array and VMware ESX Server software. It adopted the Sun Java Communications Suite for e-mail and scheduling for its distributed global workforce, providing 24x7 availability. KBC Bank & Insurance Group Using a solution based on Sun SeeBeyond eGate Integrator, a component of the Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS), KBC was the first bank in Belgium to deploy real-time integration with Euronext clearing settlement systems.

Solaris or OpenSolaris? Already using Solaris? New to Solaris? Find the version that's best for you. » More