An optimized datacenter helps you to deliver higher levels of service at lower costs. With Sun's Business Tier Consolidation
offering, customers can consolidate older Sun servers, expand capacity of existing Sun servers, and/or migrate from competitive
platforms to the UltraSPARC IV+ based Sun Fire servers while leveraging the virtualization capabilities of the most advanced
enterprise operating system, Solaris 10 with Containers.
The new Sun SPARC Enterprise systems are the next–generation additions to the Sun server range. They're the fastest Sun servers
ever: scalable up to 64 processors with outstanding throughput. Mainframe–reliable, with online servicing and full redundancy –
yet with open systems price tags Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are the ultimate consolidation system for your business tier. Through
consolidation, customers can streamline their business application infrastructure for better performance, utilization, and manageability.
Unlike IBM and HP, Sun offers virtualization flexibility with Dynamic System Domains and Solaris Containers to drive utilization up to 80%.
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! Customers can
achieve successful consolidation with Sun's best practices, services, and proven methodologies.
Sun Can Help
Within the Sun Business Tier Consolidation Program, Sun is enabling Virtualization and Consolidation solutions onto UltraSPARC IV+ servers (Sun Fire V490–E25K) and Sun
SPARC Enterprise servers, using the virtualization capabilities of the most advanced enterprise operating system, Solaris 10 with Containers.
Virtualization and Consolidation 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 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!
Services
Sun offers complete lifecycle learning solutions to fit your varied datacenter 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.
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 Operating System.
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 servers beat the competition on performance, and energy
consumption, and are designed to save you millions in power, cooling,
and space costs.
Sun's new SPARC Enterprise servers provide safe, secure and reliable
consolidation for intensive datacenter workloads that need 24x7
availability. The fastest Sun servers ever, they offer mainframe–class
reliability, availability and serviceability features, uniquely
fine–grained hardware partitioning capabilities, and are scalable up to
64 processors and 2 TB of memory. All of which makes them ideal for
consolidating mission–critical workloads. And they do all this at open
systems prices, and with all the benefits of the Solaris 10 ecosystem.
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, and data utilization and retrieval are increased. Sun's storage family of hardware and software products
are optimized and tightly integrated with the Solaris Operating System and Sun servers, making the combination ideal for server and
storage consolidation. Sun storage includes powerful storage virtualization and provisioning features for maximum efficiency.
Increase your server utilization, efficiency, and ROI while shrinking your server footprint. For free. Logical Domains (LDoms) is the most open virtualization technology available, and it's free. Unlike proprietary virtualization technologies, LDoms can save you nearly $10,000 per server. The more servers you virtualize, the more you save and benefit.
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 an 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 datacenter, 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.
We've developed a user friendly Virtualization Quick Start with
a range of resources and tools to help you transform your business today. The Quick Start contains white papers,
blue prints, how to guides and reference architectures - everything you need to vitualize rapidly.
Combine the Virtualization Quick Start with the new Sun Eco Virtualization Kit.
