Sun Microsystems
- Will Snow, Sun, Sr. Director Web Platform Engineering
About Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Our core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
Sun Microsystems Challenges
Perform in-depth analysis across three major online assets including sun.com and java.com which entails compiling massive amounts of data across all three sites frequently and reliably.
Greenplum Solution
Greenplum's External Data Streams feature along with its massively parallel architecture makes data consolidation and high-speed querying across large data sets easy. Sun's deployment of the Greenplum database delivered the functionality and performance needed to accomplish web analytics across three major sites.
