Music-Analysis Firm Affords Twice as Much Hardware Through Sun Startup Essentials

MusicMetric helps companies in the music industry make faster, better-informed decisions by uncovering trends between musicians, releases, brands, and events. It needed to support the performance demands of varied applications, minimize costs and to provide for scalability and availability. Through the Sun Startup Essential program, MusicMetric purchased a mix of Chip-Multithreading (CMT) and Symmetric-Multiprocessing (SMP) processors to meet varied application demands. Sun's MySQL database and virtualization software provides needed functionality and additional support options.