Sun Microsystems Korea announces bold new plans for 2006 Sun Microsystems Korea has declared 2006 to be "the year of achievement" and "the year of development." Its goals for this year are achieving extraordinary results in the server market and, at the same time, successfully developing storage and software markets. For this, the company plans to introduce diverse server products based on Solaris, thereby widening the range of choices and simultaneously strengthening its position. In addition, it plans to conclude its merger with StorageTek and develop customers in the storage market. And it will concentrate on market development in the software market, too, through Java and StarOffice. Also, it will develop new demand in the public, telecommunications, and manufacturing markets, in which increase of demand is anticipated. For this, a professional sales network will be set up, the support by channel companies will be expanded, and a campaign through which the level of awareness of the brand can be heightened will be pursued. Sun Korea will capture the market with even more strengthened servers based on UltraSPARC. The products that Sun Korea will concentrate on this year are Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, based on UltraSPARC T1, as announced on December 15, 2005. The UltraSPARC T1 processor has been manufactured through environment-friendly design. It presents a new standard for the environmental protection of corporations, of which the importance has been getting higher gradually. The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers onto which the UltraSPARC T1 processors are loaded can reduce the number of web servers in the entire world by a half without any losses of the system capacity. And they can reduce energy consumption, too. Sun forecasts that 2006 will become the first year in which the Chip MultiProcessing (CMT) strategy will become a reality. The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 systems onto which the UltraSPARC T1 processor is loaded are systems that maximize the performance of the Java application and the web application. It is expected that they will attract much attention from the market. As a result, through Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, Sun Korea will prove the technological superiority of Sun yet once again. And it will strengthen its position in the market even more. Especially, Sun will continue to pursue its strategy of solving the problems of customers by continuing to put on the market products that minimize the electricity consumed while, at the same time, providing performance to customers in the future, too. In addition, Sun plans to expand the customer bracket through its new Sun Fire E20K and E25K servers, onto which the UltraSPARC IV+ processor announced in October last year is attached. The new Sun Fire E20K and E25K servers are ones which have been strengthened one level more from the previous high-capacity servers. Together with the Solaris operational system, they provide the optimal platforms for the consolidation of corporations. Especially, these products consume the same amount of energy and take up the same amount of space as previous systems while providing capacity that is five times that of the previous systems. Also, with the hot swapping function of replacing only the Uniboard based on the UltraSPARC IV+ processor of the previous system, customers can reduce the upgrading cost by a half of the cost involved with the systems of other companies. Customers can use the best solution at a reasonable price. These systems are data center servers that offer the best expandability and availability. In addition, they have been optimized not only for the support for customer management and decision-making but also for large capacity databases. The size of the domestic market for x86 servers last year grew by 15% in terms of the number of units compared to the previous year. It has been growing at a relatively fast speed. It is anticipated that, like in the Unix market, dual core will be very popular in the x86 market. Hence, this market will be expanded even more. As such, Sun Korea will respond aggressively in the market with its Galaxy server products, including Sun Fire X2100, X4100, X4200, etc., which are dual-core Opteron servers. In addition, in the latter half of the year, it will launch the new products of Galaxy 4- and 8-Way. It is judged that it will be able to have a perfect lineup of x86's. Sun has been engaging in the sales of Sun Fire X2100, X4100, X4200, etc., which are dual-core Opteron servers, in earnest. It is expected that it will maximize the protection of customers' investments, which is the strong point of previous single-core. Sun Korea plans to strengthen the sales by establishing and expanding a professional marketing network for x86 servers. It plans to intensively capture the public, education, manufacturing, and telecommunication markets. The strategy of Sun Korea, which has completed its merger with StorageTek Korea, is to enter, in earnest, the storage business by forming the Data Management Group (DMB), which is a storage department. It will present a one-touch service based on total solutions. After its merger with StorageTek Korea, Sun Korea has made its position as a firm providing storage strong by possessing diverse solutions, including not only disks but also tapes and related software. It will enter the storage market aggressively through its strategy of providing not only hardware (Disks and tapes) but also consulting and services through a onetouch service to customers. Sun Korea will provide services that maximize customer satisfaction. In addition, Sun Korea plans to make aggressive investments in the field of storage services centered on customers. Sun Korea plans to strengthen its storage service organization. Its strategy is to prepare a basis for giving qualitative satisfaction to customers by executing many-sided education so that diverse solutions can be speedily handled. As for tape-automation library systems, there are Streamline SL8500 and Streamline SL500. As for storage based on the ATA disk, there is FlexLine FLX 210. Streamline SL8500 is a tape-automation library system of the Enterprise-class. StorageTek SL8500 has materialized tapeautomation for the first time in the industry. Through the automation of migration, the provision of perfect swaps, and the improvement of the performance and capacity, it is an innovative product in terms of reliability, usability, and support. Streamline SL500 is a tape-automation library system of the Mid-range class. SL500 is a product onto which the technology of 'Streamline SL8500', a tape-automation solution for the ILM of Enterprise, has been applied. It is an innovative product that provides the ILM capacity, expandability, reliability, and management capability of the Enterprise class in the small- and medium-type market for the first time in the industry. FlexLine is a storage system based on the ATA disk which is of the Enterprise-class and which has strong reliability, expandability, and open system environment. FlexLIne makes quick access possible. It reduces the costs greatly. And it provides perfect backup for important data. Also, with its high efficiency, it makes quick backup, recovery, and the sharing of centrally intensive storage from a lot of applications possible. FlexLine minimizes the weight of storage by the maximum amount and, thereby, makes the greatest utilization of limited space possible.