By working with Sun Startup Essentials program, MusicMetric of London paid 50% less than it originally estimated for the cost of hardware and cut server power-consumption 60% by choosing Sun over Dell. Networking is another benefit MusicMetric has reaped with the Sun Startup Essentials program. "We try to go to as many Sun events as we can," commented MusicMetric's Greg Mead. "It's a really good way to meet other people dealing with similar challenges and Stewart Townsend, a Startup Essentials Manager, has introduced us to some great business leads."
In his contrarian minds interview with David Vengerov, writer Al Riske characterizes the Sun Labs researcher as "part of an emerging consensus that large-scale systems need to be self-managing and self-optimizing." The complexity of systems is so vast that setting tuning parameters has become all but impossible to accomplish perfectly. "The only thing people can do now to make these systems work well is to set by hand multitudes of different parameters and policies," Vengerov told Riske.
Evolution of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is validation (though none is truly needed) of Peter F. Drucker's view of how large enterprises deal with innovation. It was his belief that "a couple of guys in a garage" are not the only source of innovation but that, instead, disruptive technologies could as easily emerge from the laboratories of large enterprises if the culture is conducive to their development. Rick Wartzman, director of Claremont Graduate University's Drucker Institute, considers the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and the Sun culture from which it grew for BusinessWeek.
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