Architecting cost-effective, fast, reliable, and scalable data warehouse environments can be a time-consuming task. To stay on top of the game, IT managers need cost-effective, powerful solutions that can be quickly implemented to provide value and a competitive edge to the business.

Sun's end-to-end, innovative solutions - software, servers, storage, and service - provide all of the technology requirements (performance, scalability, availability, and security) for complete business intelligence data warehouse (BIDW) implementations. Although Sun can address every aspect of a BIDW environment in terms of infrastructure, the suggested reference configurations in this paper focus on the data warehouse.