Sun's Quarterly Launch Advances Network Computing Unveils Sun Grid Utility Platform, New Services and Solutions
Advancing the new era of network computing, Sun revealed its latest innovations at its quarterly Network Computing '05 (NC05Q1) launch that included a new Sun Grid utility solution, Client Solutions practices and a comprehensive set of new services and solutions designed to simplify the business of selecting, acquiring and using IT infrastructure.
"Today Sun has taken the next big step in offering IT as a utility and is the first vendor to truly deliver on the promise of an open, standardized grid," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO, Sun. "As the IT industry continues to evolve, customers will need to move away from building data centers in a one-off customized model toward a standardized model and eventually to a utility model. Sun's $1/CPU per hour and $1/GB per month compute and storage offerings provide the right answers for customers worldwide to take advantage of IT as a service. It's imperative that CIOs and CFOs benchmark their own data centers to see how they stack up against the one buck threshold."
During this event, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz emphasized how Sun's approach to the data center will usher in a new era of computing in which customers are given the capability to build their own IT infrastructures that can deploy network services quickly and easily, while tailoring them to their unique business and technology requirements.
New products, solutions and services presented at Sun's quarterly NC05Q1 launch event included:
Global Sun Grid: Thousands of CPUs have been powered up in Texas, Virginia, New Jersey and Scotland, for customers to utilize. Plans are for more of these CPUs to go live during 2005, in varying locations in North America, Europe and Asia.
New Client Solutions Organization: Six global practices are being worked on by more than 10,000 Sun experts to provide customers quicker and easier access to Sun's industry expertise and iForceSM partner offerings.
The Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution program: This solution leverages the AXS-One Compliance Platform software to deliver archival, retrieval and discovery capabilities for virtually any type of electronic records, while securely coordinating with most any operating system and storage components.
The SunTM Infrastructure Solution for Secure Network Access Platform: This solution encompasses the Sun VoIP Application Services Solution with technology from Lucent Technologies.
Enhanced SunTM Service Optimized Data Center program: An extensive set of services and technologies encompass this innovative program that creates a comprehensive roadmap that can be used to transform a data center into an efficient, secure and agile service-driven environment.
The Sun JavaTM Enterprise System and JavaTM Suites: This latest release of the Sun Java Enterprise System and its Java suites comprises identity management, application platform services, system availability, Web infrastructure and enterprise communications. Each of the Java Suites are available by subscription for USD$50 per employee per year with an infinite right-to-use (RTU) license.
New SunSM Services: SunSM Preventive Services with added partner capabilities and system-level connected services. Enhancements to Sun Preventive Services, Sun Update Connection services and SunTM Net Connect services are designed to assist customers reduce management costs, increase system availability and reduce risk.
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Sun's Quarterly Launch Advances Network Computing
