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The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) chose Sun to help modernize the health
information management system for 2.4 million U.S. military personnel and their
families. There were several components of the project that dictated a phased
approach. On the hardware side, DMDC replaced the Hitachi S/390 mainframe with
two Sun Enterprise™ 10000 servers (one main and one backup), with 32 UltraSPARC®
II processors each, partitioned across the application and database domain,
running the Solaris™ Operating System. A large 300 GB Oracle7 database was
migrated to Oracle 8i to reside on the new Sun™ system. The Defense Enrollment
Eligibility Reporting Systems (DEERS) was migrated to the Sun MTP™ environment
in incremental amounts, with thorough planning and testing for each segment.
In addition, special DoD requirements called for a custom security system, which
was written and implemented by the Sun™ Services staff, which has particular security
experience and expertise. Compared to the original mainframe, the Sun environment
and Sun MTP™ software have enabled DMDC to reduce the cost of ownership by nearly 75%,
saving taxpayers $10 million each year.
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