An increasing number of institutions of higher education have adopted open-standards/open-source Sun IT infrastructure as the tool to manage such issues as the creation of efficient and scalable data centers, protecting network identities and keeping energy and real estate costs in check. Several of these implementations are discussed online.

According to Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences at Sun Microsystems, "In the face of rising enrollments and shrinking budgets, the education industry is undergoing a major shift in the technology space toward open standards, open content and open source-based software. Open systems and software improve interoperability, enhance collaborative learning and protect against vendor lock-in. Sun's unique systems approach gives customers the software, services, storage and systems they need to help them tackle their biggest IT issues, allowing them to focus on improving the quality of education."

Among the institutions Sun now numbers among its customers are the California State University system and Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, whose data centers run Sun solutions, including the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Salford in the U.K. all use the Sun JavaTM Identity Management Suite to provision users of their networks and to standardize user identities and passwords, as well as to provide role-based access.

At the University of Texas's Advanced Computing Center, Oregon State University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California, managers have adopted Sun Fire systems running on AMD Opteron x-64 processors to rein in their energy costs

Sun data management solutions are the tools of choice at the U.S. Library of Congress, The Research Foundation of State University of New York and TACC for the management of the massive data sets produced in the course of advanced research collaboration and for the process of digitizing collections.

Details of each of these implementations are available at the URL cited above. [...read more...]

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