Sun and certain members of its iForceSM Partner Community have formed Network Computing 03 to support the introduction of the new Sun FireTM Blade Platform. Products from more than 20 Sun partners figure in the blade platform. These include BEA Systems, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Opsware, Oracle Corp. and Symantec Corp.

"Sun is one of the most partnered companies on the planet," said Mark Tolliver, executive vice president, marketing and strategy, Sun Microsystems. "Our ability to delve more deeply into business and technology strategies with our iForce partners results in more effective customer-centric solutions that expand our mutual business opportunities. Together with our iForce community, customers will know what complexity-free and cost-effective network computing is all about."

Network Computing 03 brings a number of benefits to the Sun Fire Blade Platform, including:

• Blades Solutions Community - A source of pre-tested blades-centric solutions from Sun and its iForce partners that focus on security, Web Services, technical computing and content management.

• Blade Platform IHV Developer Offering - Sun is one of the only vendors to offer a comprehensive IHV developer kit for enterprise blades.

• Security Reference Architectures - Sun Firewall Reference Architecture helps customers quickly deploy new technologies for increased security. Go-to-Market Activities - working with system integration allies such as Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) to identify and pursue joint business opportunities supporting the Sun Fire Blade Platform.

• Superior Benchmark Ratings - The Sun Fire V1280 server, the industry's first 12-way, rack-optimized midrange system, has achieved record-setting performance on the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark running Oracle9i Application Server.

Upgrades to the Sun Fire V1280 server are available as a full system swap through the Sun Upgrade Allowance Program, which helps customers to consolidate multiple boxes to a Sun Fire V1280 system or to migrate from Sun EnterpriseTM 450 through 4500 server systems to the new Sun Fire V1280 system.

Customers can simplify the design and deployment of location-based applications and services, as well as add location enablement to existing applications, through Sun's new Mobile Location Services Reference Architecture, which combines location-based services middleware and the Sun FireTM 280R, V480 and V1280 servers.

Similar partner support is available for the Sun FireTM V880z visualization system. Nine software providers, including Opticore Inc., EDS PLM Solutions, Open Scene Graph, Parametric Technology Corporation and ICEM Technologies, have applications available.

For further information on the performance of the Sun Fire V1280 server on the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, see article 8974.

Further details on the Sun Fire V880z visualization system are available in article 8978. [...read more...]

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