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Sun is making it easier, faster and more cost-effective for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use technology to gain a competitive advantage through a new initiative designed to make buying Sun technology easy and affordable for this market. The company has set up a new Web page and expanded its Try and Buy program specifically for SMBs.

Through alliances with Microsoft, Intel and AMD, Sun is able to deliver complete SMB solutions spanning servers, storage, software, services and support. Customers can choose from a range of products and platforms including Sun Fire x64 and UltraSPARC-processor based servers and storage; multiple operating systems, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Windows and Linux; and databases, including Sun's MySQL.

The SMB-optimal Sun solutions are featured on http://www.sun.com/smb and can be purchased through Sun's featured online resellers, Sun Authorized Partners or the Sun.com store. During the initial phase of the initiative, Sun will be working with CDW as the featured online reseller.

Some of the solutions are:

• Run More Efficiently by Virtualizing: When you virtualize and consolidate with Sun's ultra-efficient x64 and CoolThreads servers, you improve application availability and save money, time, and energy.

• Manage Your Data Better: Use powerful Sun servers to run leading database software, including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL software. With your choice of pre-loaded Windows Server or the open source Solaris OS, you'll have your database management solution up and running in no time.

• Upgrade Your Email: This is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective server and storage configuration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which uses Sun's powerful 64-bit servers and storage to leverage Exchange Server's 64-bit architecture. Optionally, this solution includes CommVault software that enables you to maintain compliance while upgrading.

• Protect Your Assets and Data: Sun's award-winning tape libraries, robust storage software, and Sun CoolThreads servers with strong security features give you broad storage choices for heterogeneous environments. Backup software options include applications from Symantec, BakBone, and Sun.

• Improve Web Security: Your choice of cost-efficient Sun servers, software, and OS configurations makes your Web infrastructure bulletproof. Web security is built into Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Apache, and Sun's x64 servers support Microsoft IIS for maximum compatibility with your existing Microsoft software infrastructure.

• Deploy Web Services Faster: Virtualization speeds your deployment of new Web services with affordable, scalable Sun CoolThreads and x64 servers. It also makes your organization more adaptable to changing business conditions.

• Win the Spam Wars: Sun's CoolThreads servers ship pre-loaded with Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software, offering unmatched message security and cost efficiency. No other server can deliver as much anti-spam compute power in so little space and using so little power.

Also making it easier for SMBs to access Sun technology is Sun\'s Try and Buy program, which enables businesses to test Sun's leading products in their own IT environments before making a purchasing decision. In the past two years, Sun has shipped more than 8,500 free trial systems, 70 percent of those to SMBs. The products in the Sun SMB initiative launched today will also be available for free trial through the Try and Buy program, Sun announced.

"With energy-efficient, multi-platform systems coupled with free and open source software, Sun is removing the barriers to highly reliable and scalable computing for businesses of any size," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of SMB Systems Marketing, Sun. "Our expanding partnerships with online national resellers focused on this market provide the easy engagement models and fast turnarounds that SMBs require."

One Sun customer shared his experience. Sean Gorman, CEO and founder of FortiusOne, said, "As a startup, we initially thought we wouldn't be able to afford Sun products. Cost is very important, but our GeoCommons 2.0 application suite requires intense amounts of computation power. To be a successful GeoWeb company, we needed an infrastructure solution that was extremely reliable and scalable. When we investigated Sun, we were thrilled to learn that Sun offered competitively priced powerful solutions that were within our budget. This infrastructure gives us the flexibility to offer GeoCommons 2.0 to our entire list of valued large-scale government and commercial customers."

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