PlanetOut Inc. is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability strategy for growing enterprise. The company's challenge was to improve application performance and reduce server downtime. PlanetOut consolidated its Web and application tiers using Sun Fire T1000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System. The Containers feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System enables each server to handle the workload of up to 10 older machines.
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