Tools and services from Sun and its partners can help you analyze or migrate your applications to Sun systems. Application migration services include migration TCO justification, consultation, and assessment and application services.
Maintain your current business functionality and protect investments in existing business applications while transitioning to a future-proof platform of Solaris Operating System.
iForce Competency Centers.
iForce Competency Centers provide sizing and testing services, system requirements planning, technical architecture reviews, and proof-of-concept implementations.
You can speed and simplify the application migration process by leveraging the expertise of Sun iForce partners and the resources of iForce Competency Centers.
Trade-in promotions on HP 9000 products.
Under the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program, Sun offers a double trade-in value for HP 9000 products that can be applied toward the purchase of a new Sun Fire server.
The promotional trade-in offer helps lower acqusition costs, so funds can be allocated to migration services, ongoing maintenance, or additional hardware procurement.
Leasing and financing options.
Sun provides a variety of leasing and financing options to help manage the costs of acquiring new Sun servers and equipment.
Choose systems that are right for your business needs with a financing plan that helps you fit equipment acquisition costs within your budget.
Capacity on Demand (COD) 2.0 purchasing option.
Customers can configure Sun Fire 4800-15K servers with additional COD CPU/memory boards and activate those resources at any time by purchasing a COD RTU license.
Pay for additional computing power only when you need it, lowering the up-front cost of new Sun Fire servers. The COD 2.0 purchasing option provides immediate access to additional system capacity with no disruption to operations.
Integrated software.
Solaris Operating System integrates applications such as Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun Java System Application Server, SunScreen 3.2 firewall software, and Solaris Resource Manager with IP Quality of Service.
Save on recurring licensing fees and host your applications on a modern software infrastructure based on open standards. Integrated software helps drive down cost of operations for software acquisition, integration, and testing.
Sun Cluster software.
Sun Cluster software delivers high levels of application availability with functionality that is equivalent to HP TruCluster, including auto fault detection, failover, and load balancing.
Sun Cluster software can help you maintain a highly available application environment and has a clear, long-term roadmap of support and technology enhancements.
Sun guarantees that applications running on current versions of Solaris Operating System will continue to run on future versions of the operating system.
The application binary compatibility guarantee provides long-term investment protection for your software infrastructure.
SPARC/Solaris roadmap.
Sun is committed to future development of the Solaris Operating System and the SPARC microprocessor architecture.
You can migrate once to Sun's SPARC/Solaris platform and rest assured that you will have new generations of Sun technologies to choose from in the years to come.
Sun server scalability.
Sun's server portfolio provides the ability to scale from uniprocessor designs to systems with more than a hundred CPUs. Across two architectures and three operating systems, application compatibility is facilitated with no more than a recompilation operation.
With an ability to scale horizontally with Sun entry-level systems and vertically with its midrange and high-end servers, customers can add to, consolidate, and respond to evolving computing needs without worrying about changing architectures, applications, training curriculums, end-user comfort levels, or support processes.
Independent software vendor (ISV) support for Solaris Operating System.
Solaris Operating System is enthusiastically supported by ISVs, with more than 14,000 commercial applications currently available.
You can select best-of-breed applications with the latest functionality and implement new services to meet future business needs.
Solaris Operating System.
The industry-leading 64-bit UNIX operating system offers reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features such as Dynamic Reconfiguration, Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Containers, and built-in security. It offers near-linear scalability to 106 CPUs.
Solaris Operating System provides a secure foundation for mission-critical applications and the capability to reallocate system resources on demand, so your IT infrastructure can scale to meet growing service requirements.
Solaris Containers
Enable customers to increase hardware utilization
up to 4x through workload and application consolidation.
Solaris Containers consist of Solaris Zones (the ability to create unique, virtualized instances of the OS) and the Solaris Resource
Manager (the ability to assign portions of processing power to
particular zones as well as set dynamic limits). This unique combination means that Solaris Containers can be used to create multiple computing platforms on a single system that are fault-,security-, and resource-isolated.
By consolidating multiple workloads from multiple servers on to a
single server, customers can see measurable cost savings by increasing
system utilization, minimizing hardware costs, and minimizing
administrative costs since only one OS needs to be administered.
Additional savings are realized by reducing demands on system
administrators during routine system maintenance.
Predictive Self-Healing
Enables Solaris systems to accurately predict component failures and
mitigate many serious problems before they occur, thus significantly
improving uptime.
Predictive Self-Healing has two components: the Solaris Fault Manager
and Service Manager. Together, they prevent and mitigate hardware
problems as well as enable automatic recovery from many system errors.
Improved system and service availability through proactive
diagnosis and isolation of faulty components
- Automated diagnosis and restart of components and services happens
automatically in milliseconds rather than hours or days
- Simplified administration model for managing services significantly
reduces cost of ownership
Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) A unique and innovative new system capability delivering comprehensive
top-to-bottom system observability for troubleshooting and performance
enhancement.
DTrace combines a huge number of trace points (over a hundred thousand
on many systems) with an powerful scripting language (the "D"
language) and a simple, interactive command-line interface. DTrace
works by dynamically instrumenting the operating system kernel and
applications with trace points that are completely passive until
enabled. They can be enabled very quickly for data collection and then
disabled again to minimize performance impacts on the machine being
examined.
Dramatically reduces time to identify and resolve system and
application performance problems from days to minutes.
- Delivers accurate and precise information without requiring system
changes or application changes.
- Designed for use on production systems to reduce diagnosis time for
system and application problems.
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets
Learn how Sun's attractive lease proposition & technology refreshment plan helped one of Asia's top brokerage houses increase performance levels and lower maintenance costs by 20 percent.
British Telecom PLC
Find out how the largest telecommuncations supplier in the UK reduced data center complexity, improved performance, availability and lowered TCO by migrating to Sun.
Corporate Express
Learn how the move to Sun's architecture saved Corporate Express over $3M annually, improved employee productivity with 100% faster processing and more.
Province of Nova Scotia
Province of Nova Scotia is extending the reach of their SAP systems by moving
to Sun and is saving the province a substantial amount of money--at least 25
percent on hardware costs alone on an ongoing basis. Learn more.
