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For more information about the Sun Solution Center, visit
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DataDirect Will Provide 1 Petabyte of Networked Storage for Europe's Fastest Supercomputer at CEA Awarded by Bull

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Scaling from a single
database node to a two-node configuration resulted in 80 percent
scalability with minimal change in average response time per
transaction. "By leveraging the BladeFrame's clustering and
redeployment capabilities, users can lower capital and operational
costs--while maintaining mission-critical reliability --for crucial
database applications such as CRM. All other product names, service marks and
trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. This project will lay the foundation for a tech refresh strategy
focused on improving application performance while reducing space and power
consumption," said Larry Lozon, vice president, EDS Data Center Services."
Jointly benchmarked and rigorously tested by the DataDirect and Bull team,
the combination of DataDirect's S2A9500 and Bull's NovaScale SMP servers
provided CEA with the highestperformance and most scalable architecture
possible, also delivering higher reliability, easier manageability, and better
cost of ownership for CEA.

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Siebel Validates Database Scale-out with Siebel 7.7

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-- Horizontal Scalability with Oracle(R) 10g and Egenera
BladeFrame Lowers Costs, Improves Flexibility for Siebel
Customers--

Egenera Inc.
Two Siebel CRM modules --Siebel CallCenter and Siebel
eChannel--were used for testing, producing a heavier workload than
most customers experience. This powerful
solution should be of benefit to many Siebel customers . Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation
and/or its affiliates.
"We have had a strong partnership with Sun for over 20 years. Recently, we worked with a key client in the
communications industry to migrate a high-volume Oracle-based data-mart
application from a 12 processor Sun Fire E10K domain to a Sun Fire T2000
server.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc. "With CEA's Tera10 , we continue to demonstrate our
position as the world's leading provider of high-performance computing
storage, adding true value and enhancing our partners' CPU and cluster
implementations as well as our customers' networks and computing
environments," he added.

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The reference architecture was specified to
provide a level of scalability and availability consistent with the
needs of typical Siebel users, helping to ensure that results would be
relevant.

Platform criteria also included:

Minimal IT support

Easy to deploy/provision/reconfigure

Flexibility to allow new servers to be added to any tier

Small footprint

Centralized administration

Ability to run multiple tests against different databases in
parallel

Tested by Oracle for RAC, the Egenera BladeFrame system was chosen
to provide processing capacity.com

Egenera, Egenera stylized logos and BladeFrame are registered
trademarks of Egenera, Inc. LOS ANGELES, DataDirect Networks, the market
leader in high performance storage announced today that it has been awarded
the contract by Bull to provide the storage for the French CEA Atomic Energy
Commission (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique). "We are extremely pleased that the combination of DataDirect and Bull
has provided us with such an elegant solution for our next-generation
computing infrastructure .

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Moreover, with no local disk, Egenera blade servers
have no permanent identity, enabling the team to reassign them in
minutes to varying tasks as test conditions were altered. The four-node configuration delivered the same 80 percent
scalability versus the single-node configuration. in the U.top500. Sun 's partnerships with industry-leading Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs) and SIs like EDS further provide value by offering customers
360 degree views of their IT projects-from planning to testing to deploying.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age.
"DataDirect Networks' S2A technology has proven itself to be the ideal
storage solution for our groundbreaking Tera10 system.

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"Working with Siebel, Oracle, SRS2 (an Oracle Certified Partner
and Egenera professional services alliance specialized in
grid-application tuning) and Network Appliance, Egenera is pleased to
bring the benefits of utility computing to customers running Siebel
solutions," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and
management, Egenera. During that
time the Sun Solution Centers have become instrumental to our business by
partnering with EDS to provide best-in-class solutions and technology
expertise for our customers.
"DataDirect is very proud to have been selected to provide CEA , one of the
World's most advanced and visionary supercomputing facilities, with our state
of the art Fibre Channel-4 S2A9500 systems," said Alex Bouzari, DataDirect's
CEO and co-founder.

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, a leader in utility computing, today announced that
Siebel Systems Inc."
"Oracle is very pleased with the results of Siebel's testing,"
said Richard Sarwal, vice president, server applied technology, Oracle
Corp. Oracle RAC, combined with the utility computing
capabilities of the Egenera BladeFrame and NetApp unified storage,
gives datacenters the best of both worlds: cost-efficient hardware and
enterprise resource management that help yield a better return on
investment.php

About Egenera Inc.

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Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that
simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure.
The key differentiator was that the Sun Solution Center provided large scale
expertise in a variety of areas including blueprints, architecture,
scalability tests, benchmark and integration -- all from one engagement
point," said Dan Miller, vice president, Sun Japan.

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Based on these results, Siebel has confirmed that the
Oracle-on-Egenera solution offers customers a lower -cost yet equally
reliable alternative to the traditional scale-up database model
associated with proprietary UNIX systems."

Powering the World's fastest supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National
Labs and 13 of the World's 50 fastest supercomputers, DataDirect Networks has
major installations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National
Laboratories, NCSA, NOAA, NASA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne
National Laboratory, and many others.
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Based on these
results, Siebel has affirmed that Oracle 10g RAC running on
Linux(R )-based Egenera blade servers offers its customers a
value-driven alternative to the traditional scale -up database
strategy. New Services Like Identity Management and Strategic Partnerships
With Companies Such as EDS Allow Customers to Comprehensively
'Test Before They Invest'

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

About DataDirect Networks, Inc.

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According to the Siebel team, the
BladeFrame neatly organized the 24 servers needed for testing,
significantly reducing cabling complexity and datacenter space
requirements. NetApp(R)
unified storage systems were selected to deliver a level of
flexibility, reliability and availability consistent with the
BladeFrame. The Egenera
BladeFrame product family simplifies the datacenter with an innovative
server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and
enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. In addition to the new services and solutions,
the Sun Solution Centers also offer collaborative workshops, solution
architectures, proof-of-concepts and prototyping, blueprints , system
architectures, performance testing, and benchmarking, among other customer-
oriented aids . and Quadrics interconnect, running on
Tera10. Providing SAN, SAN/NAS convergence, and
cluster solutions for Government, Research Labs, Defense, Life sciences,
Broadcasting, Digital Production , Oil and Gas industries.org.

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Market-leading
enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to
run their most important business applications, and achieve higher
resource utilization , faster application time-to-market, and lower
total cost of ownership.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. In one location, customers have access to
award-winning Sun technologies like the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System and
Sun Fire(TM) servers, as well as core competencies such as competitive
analysis and best practices to ensure Sun's innovations are deployed in the
most efficient manner possible.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- guides Sun in
the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets.

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, Egenera has
offices worldwide . NetApp is a
registered trademark of Network Appliance, Inc.sun.com.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems , the Sun logo, Sun Fire,
Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. For more
information, contact DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit
http://www.

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Results indicate that the scale-out strategy is a viable solution
for the database tier of Siebel CRM solutions.egenera.egenera.S. DataDirect Network's recently
introduced S2A9500, the world's fastest Fibre Channel-4 storage system, will
connect to a cluster of Bull NovaScale SMP servers and power "Tera10," the
number one supercomputer in Europe and one of the fastest supercomputers
worldwide.
The DataDirect S2A9500 is the perfect storage complement for our customers,
providing the best technical and cost-effective solutions available for HPC
computing.

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MARLBORO, Mass. and other
countries ., Sun Microsystems,
Inc. For a system of this
magnitude CEA needed a proven storage vendor that could deliver storage and
bandwidth on a massive scale," said Jean Gonnord, Tera10 Project Director at
CEA.

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By consolidating servers in a single chassis with an
integrated cluster interconnect, the Egenera system's Processing Area
Network (PAN) architecture simplified the test configuration
substantially. The Sun Solution Centers include a variety of new offerings
such as identity management solutions, services and competencies like best
practices and competitive analysis, and partnerships with Solutions
Integrators (SIs) including EDS. The comprehensive and unique centers allow
customers to "test before they buy" in real-world environments to better plan
and deploy new IT strategies . As a result,
Tokyo Tech will deploy the fastest supercomputer in Asia and rank within top
five of the Top500 (according to http://www."
The Sun Solution Centers offer customers unprecedented resources to help
them more effectively make purchasing and implementation decisions, and
improve total cost of ownership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at sun.

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Running Oracle(R) 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) on the
Egenera(R) BladeFrame(R) system with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server,
Siebel has achieved 80 percent scalability up to four database nodes
for Siebel 7. "We
look forward to this continued partnership and future Sun Solution Center
engagements leveraging the Sun and EDS expertise combined to help our
customers solve their problems and attain their business goals by mitigating
risk and saving time and money.

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A white paper describing the Siebel testing in detail is available
at: http://www.

datadirectnet.

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More information is available at www.com/solutioncenters . The DataDirect S2A9500 storage
systems ground-breaking bandwidth capabilities will be utilized to create full
point-in-time copies of the supercomputer 's 27 Terabyte of main system memory
in under five minutes, sustaining in excess of 100,000 Megabytes per second of
both read and write bandwidth through the Lustre(TM) global parallel file
system by Cluster File Systems Inc. This incredible performance will drive unmatched operating
efficiencies within the supercomputing cluster allowing more breakthrough
science to be accomplished in less time and at a lower cost.
DataDirect Networks is the world's leading provider of networked storage
and clusters for HPC and Rich Media.

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"Siebel worked closely with Oracle, SRS2 and Egenera in
grid-application tuning to deliver these results. Our testing derived
substantial benefits from the Oracle and Egenera architectures,"
stated Francisco Casas, group manager architecture, Siebel Systems.
"The BladeFrame made it simple to deploy, scale and manage servers,
directly influencing a lower total cost of ownership.

Sun Microsystems Introduces Expanded Sun Solution Centers to Help Customers Mitigate Risk Decrease Time-to-Market

"The Sun Solution Center was an integral part in the decision of one of
the world's leading technical institutes, Tokyo Institute of Technology's
(Tokyo Tech), to create Japan's largest supercomputer on a foundation of Sun.org ) supercomputers by
June 2006 while simultaneously cutting its total cost of ownership
significantly.

Contact: Brad Winett
Vice President
Business Development and Marketing
Tel: (818) 700-7620
bwinett@datadirectnet.

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"Our Oracle 10g clustered database solution enables Siebel
customers to scale out Linux-based database servers for lower total
cost of ownership. "This allowed a
simplified, streamlined approach to creating an easy-to-use high performance
computing environment for Tokyo Tech students and researchers.

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has validated a scale-out strategy for the
database component of its Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
software. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced the expanded Sun Solution Centers, more
than 60 global sites that offer access to award-winning Sun products,
services, solutions and partners to help customers mitigate risk and decrease
time-to-market.

Jean-Francois Lavignon, Bull HPC manager said: "We are very pleased with
DataDirect's S2A storage technology which is ideally matched in performance
and scale to our NovaScale SMP servers and has already helped us achieve the
highest performance ever on a single server through the Lustre file system.com.

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7. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass.
Geared to be fully deployed by the end of 2005, DataDirect's cluster of
S2A9500 storage systems will provide a storage pool of more than 1 Million
Gigabytes of disk storage (1 Petabyte).