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Sun's virtualization and consolidation solutions are helping hundreds of customers simplify their disconnected and disparate IT environments – and in turn, achieve greater economies of scale while reducing the ecological impact. By virtualizing and consolidating 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!

Sun Virtualization & Consolidation Offerings

Sun has proven programs for your business, whether you're looking to optimize your Web Tier infrastructure to eliminate server sprawl and contain energy costs, or to simplify and fortify your Business Tier infrastructure for improved disaster recovery capabilities and competitive advantage. Sun is the premier virtualization and consolidation provider to partner with to achieve maximum business efficiencies and faster time to market of services to grow your business.

Sun continues to raise the virtualization bar by delivering specialized solutions that help you optimize your Web Tier and Business Tier infrastructures for virtually unparalleled real estate, power, and cooling savings.

Systems & Technologies

Sun xVM: Sun's open virtualization and management platform.
- Sun xVM Ops Center: Unify management of physical and virtual machines using one console.
- Sun xVM Server: Hypervisor to consolidate Windows, Linux and Solaris with the scalability, manageability, observability, and security from Solaris xVM.
- Sun xVM VirtualBox: Sun xVM VirtualBox: Developer desktop virtualization platform to work in multiple Linux, Windows, Mac, and Solaris environments at once.
Solaris 10 OS: Reduce energy, space, and cooling requirements, and simplify system management with Solaris 10 Containers the ideal OS for virtualization.
VMware ESX Support: Sun Fire x64 servers & Sun Blade modular systems are now VMware certified, enabling you to run and easily manage Solaris, Linux, and Windows applications on a single server.
Sun Blade Modular Systems: With blade servers powered by UltraSPARC T2, AMD Opteron, or Intel Xeon processors, Sun Blade Modular systems deliver greater throughput in less space and simplify management.
Sun CoolThreads servers: Featuring the breakthrough technology of the UltraSPARC T1, T2, or T2 Plus processors, Sun's CoolThreads servers beat the competition on performance as well as energy and space efficiency, and are designed to save you millions in power, cooling, and space costs.
Sun SPARC Enterprise servers: The fastest SPARC servers ever, Sun's newest server family delivers the throughput, and mainframe–class availability and partitioning you need – at open systems prices.
x64 Servers: Ideal for virtualization, Sun x64 servers feature the Next–Generation AMD Opteron processor and deliver outstanding performance, energy efficiencies, and scalability.
Sun StorageTek Virtualization Solutions: When you virtualize your servers, you've got to pay equal attention to your storage if you want to see the full benefits. Sun storage brings value, access, simplicity and trust to all of your datacenter.
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution: Deploy a secure, resilient, and available desktop environment with Sun VDI Software.
Sun Update Connection Enterprise: A networked service for Solaris and Linux systems enabling system administrators to manage patches and dependencies throughout the datacenter lifecycle, helping customers lower TCO and reduce risk.