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 Dear Inner Circle Members,
A recurring topic globally has been the explosive growth in computing needs and the increasing demand for network infrastructures to meet those needs. The result is the Network Effect: an increased demand for network infrastructure being driven by society, governments, enterprises, and communities as millions of people join the world’s network.
Sun's Redshift theory describes this phenomenon of a shift from Enterprise Scale Computing to Network Scale Computing. Companies like Google, YouTube, MySpace, and Salesforce.com, along with users of HPC (High Performance Computing) such as pharmaceutical, financial, and energy companies, are all experiencing the Network Effect.
Enterprise Platforms for the Network Economy
Sun’s recent acquisition of MySQL was reported by Gartner as “brilliant” and a “genius move.” This acquisition affirms Sun as a leader in open source software and positions the company as the leading provider of enterprise platforms for the Network Economy.
We also continue to strengthen our relationship with Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL and others, to offer choices to our customers. We want to grow our business on a multi-platform, multi-partner basis, allowing us to better serve customers on all those platforms including Dell, HP and IBM systems.
As the Network Effect takes hold, organisations are migrating from data marts and data warehouses to new data warehouse appliances. For example, Sun and the Green Plum Data Warehouse Appliance enables enterprises like Reliance Communications to take advantage of performance gains, handle greater amounts of data, support mixed workloads, and consolidate platforms – all while reducing total cost of ownership.
About MySQL
MySQL is one of the world's largest open source vendors — it is the “M” in the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl) stack. With a 49% share of the open source database market, support for over 20 platforms, 50,000 downloads daily, and a roster of 400 blue chip customers, the acquisition of MySQL has put Sun firmly in the fast-growing $15B database market. MySQL’s deployment with the Solaris OS and highly complementary Sun systems delivers a powerful end-to-end platform for its customers.
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Accelerating Results with HPC
In today’s economic climate being first means everything. Increasingly competitive markets, de-regulation, and globalization are now driving new levels of urgency and time-to-market pressures. With the network expanding rapidly, and data processing requirements growing exponentially, HPC provides accelerated results for a broad range of industries.
The new Sun Constellation System, the world's first petascale computing environment is Sun's unique approach to petascale computing which combines state-of-the-art technology with system level innovation and off-the-shelf components in an open architecture.
Petascale Computing in Action
The Ranger HPC Cluster
The first petascale implementation of the Sun Constellation System is the Ranger HPC cluster, which was developed jointly with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) of The University of Texas at Austin. It’s one of the most powerful general purpose computing platforms in the world at over one-half petaFLOP peak performance.
Tokyo Institute of Technology 
Sun and Tokyo Tech (Tokyo Institute of Technology) created one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Sun x64 servers and data servers deliver 47.38 TeraFLOPS1 of sustained performance and 1 petabyte (PB) of storage to users running common off-the-shelf applications. Together, Sun and Tokyo Tech have built a supercomputer class grid in a mere 35 days time that costs less to run.
Meeting the Demands of the Network
The Network Effect will eventually impact all of us — from the start-up MySQL user to the compute networks at the multinational level. Sun’s open, scalable architecture of world-class components accelerates deployment, speeds results, and removes limitations. With innovative products and superior technology Sun customers save money, maximize asset utilization, reduce risk, and enhance performance.
Welcome to the Participation Age.
Thank you
Anil Valluri
Vice President & Managing Director
India GEM
Sun Microsystems
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