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Sun Outpaces Overall Market in Unit Growth

00:00:00 - 07 September 2004

September 7, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) extended its leadership position in the high performance and technical computing (HPTC) market, according to the latest research from IDC. Sun maintained its number one market share position in unit shipments with 33.8 percent unit growth quarter-over-quarter (Q/Q), outpacing the overall market.

This quarter's QView report demonstrates a maturation of the HPTC market, with a balance between strong growth in small node clusters and continued demand for large memory SMP systems. "IDC's report further validates that our product strategy is perfectly aligned with overall industry trends. As the industry continues to deploy low-cost clustered servers, Sun is rapidly fulfilling customer demand for our AMD Opteron processor-based systems on the low end.

At the same time, Sun's new CMT UltraSPARC IV servers are adding serious muscle to Grid deployments on the high-end," said Larry Singer, senior vice president and strategic insights officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

INEEL, which is developing a high performance computing cluster for use in next-generation nuclear reactor design, will benefit from more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, and more than 12 Terabytes of Sun StorEdge 6320 storage, the Solaris 9 Operating System, Sun Java Enterprise System and Java development software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition, Sun's StarOffice 7.0 office productivity platform.

Sun gained 12.4 unit market share points Y/Y in the departmental segment, due to growing demand for the newly introduced Sun Fire V20z server. In addition, Sun saw strong sales of the Sun Fire V60x, V65x, V210, V240 and V440 systems, enabling Sun to increase its sizable share of the segment to 45.7 percent. Solid sales of the Sun Fire E25K and 15K systems demonstrated continued demand for large memory SMP systems for workloads not addressed by small node clusters.

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