Cingular Wireless is the first of several pilot customers to deploy Sun's N1 technology. Cingular will use N1 in its data center, located in Alpharetta, GA, to increase efficiencies and save money.

N1 is Sun's multi-platform, multi-vendor operating environment for network computing. It virtualizes widely distributed network computing resources and elements such as servers, storage, software and networking and enables them to dynamically operate as a single, powerful network computer.

"Network computing has become a reality in our data center," said Thaddeus Arroyo, CIO at Cingular Wireless. "By automating away the complexity associated with managing our data center, we expect to increase utilization and availability while decreasing costs and time to deploy. We look forward to continued work with Sun on our current pilot program and on future phases of N1."

Cingular is continuing its work with Sun Services to deliver the next phase of N1 technology which will automatically deploy Web server, application server and database applications throughout its data center.

"With N1 technology, customers like Cingular Wireless now have the choice to engineer away the cost and complexity in their current data centers instead of facing the high price tag of replacing infrastructure or outsourcing it away to 'On Demand'," said Steve MacKay, vice president of N1 Products at Sun.

One of the N1 technologies is the N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition, which reduces deployment time from weeks to hours. It works by reprovisioning blades from one server farm to another and adding new blades. It also shelves and even racks into the data center environment, and brings new blades online to replace failed blades from its unique graphical user interface.

The N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition is expected to be available by the second quarter of 2003. Sun will continue to expand the availability of its N1 Data Services offerings throughout 2003, once the pilot phase is complete.

The SunSM Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program will support large volume deployments of Sun Fire Blades by shipping complete, factory configured and tested Blade systems designed to meet customer specifications. Sun is also introducing a Blade manager and storage virtualization technologies. [...read more...]

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