Consolidation Through Virtualization

Sun Can Help

Within the Sun Business Infrastructure Consolidation Program, Sun is enabling Consolidation and Virtualization solutions onto UltraSPARC IV+ servers (Sun Fire V490-E25K), using the virtualization capabilities of the most advanced enterprise operating system, Solaris 10 with Containers.

Consolidation and Virtualization Sun Solutions are helping hundreds of customers simplify their disconnected and disparate IT environments-and in turn, achieve greater IT efficiency, enhanced security, improved business continuity, and significantly reduced costs. By consolidating and virtualizating to the Sun platform, customers have reduced their IT costs by as much as $2M/year, achieved 99.99+% availability, and more than doubled their application performance!

Services

Sun offers complete lifecycle learning solutions to fit your varied data center needs. We provide both team and individual training options, as well as consulting to help you maximize system availability, increase productivity, speed time to market and reduce total cost of ownership.

Platforms

Designed for compute density backed by enterprise-class features, Sun's midrange servers deliver high performance and protect your IT investments over time. Sun has enhanced the industry's leading 64-bit server line with the UltraSPARC IV+ processor, offering up to five times the performance of previous UltraSPARC III systems. Yet you retain Sun's migration-enabling unbroken binary application compatibility with the Solaris OS.

Sun's flagship servers, powered by the new UltraSPARC IV+ processors, work with the Solaris Operating System to offer you a better enterprise consolidation platform: up to 5x greater performance and significantly less power, cooling and space costs with no increase in system price - and all within the same footprint.

Powered by the breakthrough technology of the UltraSPARC T1 processor, new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers offer industry leading world record price/performance for web, database, and application processing. An ideal consolidation platform for addressing server sprawl in the Web Tier, these new server beat the competition on performance, and energy consumption, and are designed to save you millions in power, cooling, and space costs.

Storage

Now is not the time for business as usual. It's time to consider Sun for value, access, simplicity and trust. Sun's systems approach to innovative products, technologies and methodologies allow you to manage data and ensures data is identity-enabled, data access is more affordable, data utilization and retrieval are increased. Sun's storage family of hardware and software products are optimized and tightly integrated with the Solaris OS and Sun servers, making the combination ideal for server and storage consolidation. Sun storage includes powerful storage virtualization and provisioning features for maximum efficiency.

Software

Our complete consolidation portfolio is headed by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Available free and open source, it's the most innovative enterprise operating system available today. With more than 600 features, like Containers partitioning technology it's the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built. We've designed some incredibly powerful and innovative features into Solaris 10 to help you do two things: reduce costs and reduce complexity.

Designed specifically to address the challenges associated with managing system infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, N1 System Manager enables you to discover, provision, monitor, update, and manage hundreds of Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers from a single management console anywhere on the web - helping you speed up system deployment and reduce operating costs.

Sun N1 Service Provisioning System simplifies application lifecycle management by rapidly provisioning business services that span multiple tiers, across heterogeneous environments - offering you a standard method of deploying business services and tracking changes throughout the deployment process. It even includes and audit trail to help you meet regulatory compliance.

Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java System Suites dramatically reduce software license charges and operational costs. This no cost, sophisticated infrastructure software helps reduce cost and complexity throughout your data center, providing greater overall integration and system monitoring, increased security and manageability, and improved performance.

Sun Identity Management offers the core functions needed to use, share and manage identity information including directory services, access management, provisioning and federation. These solutions improve security, lower costs, and increase service levels.

Sun Cluster software is the industry's premier availability platform for improving the predictability and resilience of business critical applications. It is also the industry's leading platform to manage other applications such as databases, application servers and web servers.

Sun Managed Services simplify consolidation by providing interim, onsite expertise while your staff gets up to speed after consolidating your infrastructure, allowing you to maintain control of your business critical-systems with flexible services that fit your requirements.