The utility needed more processing power, far greater reliability, and a better approach to data management. The company purchased two eight-processor Sun Enterprise 5000 servers and a Sun StorEdge disk array with 50 GB of disk storage as the platform for its new customer service and billing application. Sun Enterprise 5000 servers deliver results Moving the customer service and billing applications to the Sun Enterprise 5000 servers is producing impressive results. The key to this success is the Sun Enterprise 5000 server's high performance and outstanding availability. Now the billing application processes each incoming batch of meter readings overnight, producing complete and accurate customer billings before the next batch arrives.
Internal users gain also.
I get lots of positive remarks about how much better our computer systems run now that we've installed the Sun servers. Additionally, the IS department itself benefits because the performance and reliability of the Sun systems reduce the time and resources needed for repair and maintenance, which enables the department to spend more time on proactive activities. For example the utility uses SunNet TM Domain Manager running on a Sun Enterprise 1 server for network management tasks. Data backup is automated and accelerated on the Sun StorEdge disk array platform. Legend Technologies helps upgrade applications and establish data management practices.