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Pay-per-use Computing Power and Data Storage On-demand Computing for USD$1 per CPU or GB Customers and partners can receive immediate benefits from an open, grid-based computing infrastructure via the Sun Grid compute utility and the Sun Grid storage utility. Announced at Sun's quarterly Network Computing '05 (NC05Q1) launch, these are just the first two solutions of many Sun Grid offerings the company plans on releasing over the next few months. These two solutions are available at a cost of USD$1, either per CPU per hour for the Sun Grid compute utility on a pay-per-use basis or per GB per month for the Sun Grid storage utility. Currently, Sun Grid Centers are opened in Virginia, Texas, New Jersey, Canada and Scotland. Additional worldwide locations will be opened later in the year. "There's an industry misunderstanding at the moment - it's not computers that are commoditizing, it's computing. What do all commodities have in common? Transparent pricing that can be compared against each other," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO, Sun. "We encourage all CIOs and CFOs to look into their data centers and ask themselves if they are spending more than $1/cpu-hr, including electricity, HV-AC and labor. We're certain Sun can reduce costs by an order of magnitude, allowing customers to allocate resources toward activities delivering competitive advantage." With the Sun Grid, customers and partners have access to Sun's facilities, resources, software and both the SPARCR and SunTM x86 Platform with the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). The Sun Grid compute utility will deliver a standard computing grid, powered by AMD Opteron processor-based systems, the Solaris 10 OS and the N1TM Grid Engine. With the Sun Grid storage utility, customers' grid requests can be supported or can be used independent of the compute utility. This standardized, high-performance pay-per-use storage offering allows customers to access the resources they need, when they need them. "As the 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," said Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy. Sun plans to release a commercial version of the Sun Grid compute utility this year and anticipates a similar pricing model with a four-hour minimum usage requirement and a click-through license. Other future Sun Grid solutions are expected to be designed for the desktop and developer communities. For more information on the Sun Grid solutions, visit:
http://www.sun.com/service/sungrid/index.html
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...these are just the first two solutions of many Sun Grid offerings the company plans on releasing over the next few months.
Pay-per-use Computing Power and Data Storage
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