Sun's lifecycle services for consolidation offer consulting, education, and support services to help you architect, implement, and manage your infrastructure and maximize the full value of your solution investment. With deep technology expertise and broad service offerings, Sun can help you simplify administration and manageability, optimize your staff utilization, and maximize availability, efficiency and profitability. »More
The global network of Sun Solutions Centers includes three types of centers: Sun-led, partner-led, and software product focused. This network of centers lets you invest in testing your concept before purchasing the final complete solution. Sun Solution Centers are designed to help Sun's customers make informed investment decisions, and build and test prototype solutions before going to market. »More
Sun Reference Architectures are designed, tested, sized, and documented end-to-end solutions for building complex systems that meet specific business needs. These documented architectures help reduce the complexity and risk associated with deploying new computing infrastructures. Sun Reference Architectures are built to the specifications of the SunTone Initiative to help deliver the highest quality of service to customers. Test a Reference Architecture configuration with your own workload and applications at a Sun Solutions Center, before you decide to buy. »More
Sun Microsystems, always a leader in innovative technology, has endless features which solidify our technology and consolidation leadership. Including:
Sun Fire CoolThreads technology leap-frog's the industry's efforts to offer multi-threaded processors. Until now, two threads per core and two cores was the best you could get anywhere, and your datacenter power and cooling costs kept climbing. Sun changes everything with new CoolThreads technology featuring an onboard memory subsystem and internal communications. In its first release, the UltraSPARC T1 processor gives you an unbelievable eight processing cores with four threads per core. It's like a rack of servers on one chip. With up to 32 simultaneous threads in one incredibly low-power, low-heat processor, you gain the high-volume throughput that can save you millions on power, cooling, and space costs. The new standard is set, get ready to move ahead - faster, cheaper, cooler.
New UltraSPARC IV+ based servers further increase the speed of development and deployment in the data center with significant throughput gains, increased utilization, unmatched investment protection, and lower risk with greater security and uptime. Coupled with high scalability and the ability to instantly upgrade for significantly higher throughput, these servers provide the right balance for the enterprise with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with competitive systems.
Solaris 10 with Containers establish boundaries for consumption of resources such as memory, CPU time and network bandwidth. As processing requirements change in line with business needs, one or more of the boundaries of a Container can be expanded to accommodate a spike in resource demand.
Server Partitioning Technology drives reduced operating costs, reduced maintenance and leasing costs, reduced time to create new services and enables meeting service level requirements.
Dynamic System Domains host multiple applications that require different versions of Solaris on a single server, Provide secure, completely isolated computing environments for different organizations on a single server, Increase utilization by applying resources as required, Replace or upgrade hardware with no application downtime.
N1 Grid Containers drive simultaneously update multiple environments, quickly create and modify virtual environments, host multiple applications on a single server, provide secure, fault isolated virtual environments, instantly migrate resources between applications, perform software maintenance with no application downtime.
Advanced File Systems including QFS: Quick file system and SAM-FS: Hierarchical file system.
Whether you want to scale horizontally or vertically, Sun has leading technologies, like the recently announced Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 CoolThreads servers powered by the revolutionary UltraSPARC T1 processor to deliver performance and efficiency that's light years ahead, for your consolidated data center architecture. Sun StorEdge solutions are tightly integrated with Sun systems for the greatest application performance and reliability, and support heterogeneous environments for investment protection. From the workgroup to the data center, Sun delivers resilient, modular, secure, and scalable solutions, software, and services that enable you to get the most out of your storage resources.
