The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) has shown itself to be a source of extraordinary savings in a test conducted by the Crimson Consulting Group whose white paper on the OS reports ROI of 127% over five years for servers upgraded to the Solaris 10 OS. Crimson reports further that the potential exists for an additional 335% ROI if the upgrade was completed for all servers.

The Crimson Group found that the Solaris 10 OS provided significant reductions in such enterprise data center costs as administrative and operational costs, maintenance and support, and environmental/operating costs.

Specifically, the Solaris 10 OS enabled Sun customers participating in the survey to:

• Reduce administrative expense and manage more servers with the same staff

• Cut costs through hardware consolidation and prepare for future growth

The new tools and capabilities in the Solaris 10 OS, administrators in the study were able to significantly reduce the time it takes to implement, administer, troubleshoot, and tune systems, resulting in more cost effective staff utilization. The virtualization features in the Solaris 10 OS and the space and power efficiency of Sun CoolThreads technology-based servers make it possible for organizations to consolidate physical servers. The Solaris 10 OS enabled the organizations in the study to optimize the utilization of the servers, making it possible in some instances to cut the number of physical servers required while still meeting the needs of IT infrastructure growth. Consolidation drastically reduced maintenance and support costs, as well as power costs and data center space.

Crimson Group states that customers who opt to increase savings through consolidation of servers and the purchase of new hardware (for example, the Sun T2000), can appreciate even greater cost reductions than those that result directly from implementation of the Solaris 10 OS. [...read more...]

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