Sina and Sun brand linkage to create cutting-edge technology services platform

Sun Microsystems company and Sina company announced today, Sina company and Sun Microsystems company will be "Ku Xiancheng (CoolThreads)" core business platform of sina, together for the sina.com.cn hundreds of millions of Internet users to provide high quality services to enhance the directory, as the first big portal sina.com.cn technical service quality. The system is based on 8 core, 32 UltraSPARC T1 processor based on the Sun Fire T1000 server, Sina directory services to bring a new atmosphere. The system test shows that the processing ability of Sun Fire to build T1000 server business platform relative to the original system has been significantly improved, the test results of more than the expected processing capacity increased by 5 times, the value for the user service demand of sina site growing stage has been satisfied. Especially the new system with excellent scalability and strengthen the service expansion of sina.com.cn, experience in improving the overall cost of customers, reduce IT investment, to provide the technology platform for more complete sina.com.cn operations and services of sina users.

As the world's largest Chinese portal sina.com.cn has 180 million registered users, the average daily traffic peak reached 450 million, only in 2005, from Chinese sina.com.cn Shenzhou VI launch special to the panda pair chosen name, as well as various online activities, every online activities to attract tens of millions or even billions of levels of user groups participate in. This time, Sun and Sina cooperation is the beginning of a comprehensive network of technical services to enhance the quality of the portal. From a technical point of view, it is not difficult to see from the following:

First, LDAP and Java: Sina is China's first use of Java network company, using LDAP based multi directory server Sun Java Directory Server, Sun is based on the development of Java technology ten years of crystallization. Java in the development of Internet is and will provide more service options; while Sun's LDAP products for its excellent scalability and flexibility and the reputation of the industry, for the excellent growth of the number of users caused by sina.com.cn soaring demand adaptability;

Second, cool thread new technology: the use of a kernel, 32 concurrent hardware threads UltraSPARC T1 processor. Sun Fire T1000 server with 9.6 GHz UltraSPARCreg; T1 processor, has achieved a record of the world's benchmark performance test of the 7; this is the foundation for the successful operation of the guarantee;

Third, environmental protection: the innovative design of UltraSPARC T1 processor, the establishment of a new industry standard in system performance, power and space, power and space only half of its competitors of similar systems, thereby significantly reduce the system TCO (total cost of ownership); this is most concerned about the Internet service enterprise;

Fourth, safety and expansion: the system performance and safety and Solaris 10 operating system, and in all kinds of business critical applications will test for Sina and hundreds of millions of users provide a sense of security more secure, but also provides extended space for future network;

Sina CTO Li Songbo said: "today's online service business is growing, while sina is committed to continuing to improve customer service standards, while reducing operating costs and efforts. Through a comprehensive and detailed testing and evaluation, we believe that the solution provided by Sun, while strengthening service scalability, improve customer experience, while significantly reducing the overall cost of IT investment."

The general manager of Sun China company Xue Yaokun said: "that the successful application of the Sun Fire T1000 server with UltraSPARC T1 processor as the core in sina.com.cn, this new server in performance and power saving space and deliver the goods with excellent adaptability, high throughput for network service. In addition, the 'Cool threading' technology is characterized by its leading 'multi core' and 'Green Computing', which has set a successful example for the whole network service industry."

Sun company and Sina company believes that this cooperation creative: Sina and Sun is a leader in two closely related industries, sina.com.cn message service platform has a very spread advantage, through the dissemination of give full play to the advantages of their business platform, combined with the successful application of advanced technology in the world, so that it can have on the billion users get better service. Sun once again proved that its technology can be widely used in network services, so as to provide users with more choices, reduce the cost of use, expand more global engagement opportunities.