Helping businesses find a clear, low-cost path to a single, enterprise-wide e-mail solution, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation have produced impressive performance results from a series of scalability tests.
These tests running Oracle Collaboration Suite on midrange servers, including Sun Fire 6800, V880, and V1280 systems, Sun StorEdge Arrays and the Sun Solaris Operating System (OS), scaled from 5 000 to more than 52 000 e-mail users.
"This demonstrates the practically limitless scalability of Oracle Collaboration Suite underpinned by Sun hardware," comments Alan Smit, ERP solution architect at Sun Microsystems SA.
Because the tests evaluated the performance characteristics of Oracle Collaboration Suite and Sun systems under real-world conditions, companies can use the results to plan configuration requirements and system sizing.
"As a result of the joint testing, businesses can now more accurately size their e-mail consolidation solutions using Sun and Oracle's on-line sizing tool, while obtaining advanced scalability, functionality, reliability and lower cost of ownership for their vital e-mail services," Smit continues.
A three-tier performance result was achieved using Sun Fire UltraSPARC III midrange servers. The results demonstrated near-linear scalability on all Sun servers with Oracle Database tier, Oracle9i Application Server tier, and Oracle Internet Directory tier. The configuration easily scaled the concurrent users, while still offering headroom for additional performance as the application tier had 80% CPU utilisation and the database tier had less than 60% utilisation.
"Oracle Collaboration Suite provides a single e-mail message store for small, medium and large companies, and includes non-disruptive backup by switching files to another node during server maintenance, so users have access to mission-critical content 24/7," says Smit.
A consolidated platform for e-mails on Sun systems can translate into a centralised means for maintaining data with secure network accessibility from multiple points, while reducing the overall cost of maintenance. The single service enables viruses to be identified and quarantined much faster, considerably reducing the disruption caused by a virus attack.
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Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first enterprise-class collaboration product that leverages a relational database to offer a secure, reliable and scalable way to simplify business communication and consolidate information - reducing hardware, software and administration costs. Built on the Oracle Database and Application Server infrastructure, Oracle Collaboration Suite provides users with access to integrated e-mail, voicemail, calendaring, file sharing, search and Web conferencing capabilities from popular desktop clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Web browsers and a wide range of wireless devices, including PDAs and cell phones. For more information, customers may contact Oracle Direct at 1 800 633 0541 or their Oracle sales representative.
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