The program begins with the development of a clearly defined architectural roadmap and plan to intelligently migrate in an organized and effective way from the current levels of complexity and high costs to an optimized data center environment that enables the faster deployment and management of services.
Reduce cost & complexity: Service optimized data center architectures
are flexible, increasing utilization of existing investments.
Improve data center efficiency and service levels: Service optimized
data center architectures are highly responsive, enabling a virtual and
dynamic "real-time" processing environment.
Speed time to market of new services: Service Optimized Data Centers
are automated, providing tools to automate IT processes.
Server
An optimized data center helps you to deliver higher levels of service at lower costs. Sun offers a Sun Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Consolidation for companies who want to reduce IT costs, improve service levels, and improve IT manageability. Sun has the extensive knowledge, technologies, proven methodology, and a successful track record in helping customers consolidate to a Sun platform with a common architecture.
Solutions
Business executives in today's IT environments face the challenge of managing exponential storage growth with reduced IT budgets. If you're facing this issue in your data center, let Sun show you how you can manage more data with fewer, more powerful resources by consolidating your storage onto a Sun StorEdge solution. You can achieve higher levels of storage utilization, improve the availability and scalability of your storage environment, and enhance the management of your storage infrastructure. You'll also simplify your business continuity requirements and lower the costs associated with protecting critical data assets.
Enterprise Migration
Thinking about a change? At Sun, we've helped thousands of businesses move from legacy IT platforms to a solid foundation of Sun Fire servers, storage systems, and the Solaris Operating System. To help drive cost and complexity out of moving to a Sun platform, we've created specific programs that address common business and technology issues, drawing from more than 10 years of UNIX migration experience. Our goal is to supply you with the products, services, and expertise you need to meet your business' IT needs--today, tomorrow, and for years to come.
Grid Computing
Whatever your business, it makes good economic sense to use the IT infrastructure you've already got to raise productivity, maintain availability, and minimize downtime. Grid Computing lets you bring together all your heterogeneous resources and allocate them efficiently to applications within the enterprise and beyond. Once you are utilizing all your current IT assets, you will find it easy to add more resources to your Grid. The new resources provide seamless expansion of IT infrastructure. Users will only notice the improvement in service.
Sun Mainframe Rehosting
All businesses must drive down operational costs to sustain long-term competitive advantage in the market. For IT organizations with large investments in mainframes, this is an increasing challenge. With no real competitors left in the mainframe server business, the cost of the associated hardware and software licenses continue their rapid rate of increase. The challenge for mainframe-based businesses today is how to keep the value of proven CICS and batch applications, while dramatically reducing the costs associated with mainframes.
Through the Mainframe Affinity Program, Sun offers products, tools, partnerships and services that help enable you to interoperate with, rehost or replace mainframe applications on more cost-efficient, open platforms - often at equal or greater levels of performance, flexibility and scalability. Sun's services experts, teaming with partners, put technology and proven services methodologies to work to help you meet your migration needs, including high reliability, cost-effectiveness, operational optimization, business agility, and innovation adoption.
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) offer (1) the ability to meet higher level
quality-of-service requirements such as availability, security, scalability, and
reliability; and (2) flexibility and adaptability (extensibility) to integrate
new services and data without overhauling the architecture. The latter is a key
result of SOA's openness, which enables the integration of existing services and the rapid development of new web services. SOA also provides application
development and deployment facilities that allow for existing applications
(i.e., legacy systems) to be integrated and deployed as services and data within the portal, with only limited changes to those existing applications and data stores.
Enterprise Architecture Design Services
For today s businesses, IT strategy must begin with an architectural vision that
provides adaptability reconfigurable, modularized components that can be
reorganized, reconfigured, and extended to provide unprecedented freedom in
adapting network-based infrastructures to changing business conditions. Such a
foundation can be created by applying an architectural framework based on open
standards, the application of an architectural framework that is based on open
standards, common interfaces, and portable technology. This paper presents an
overview of how to achieve an adaptable architecture. It also discusses
delivering an architectural framework and the best practices, patterns, and
methodologies required to produce a blueprint that aligns business goals and
objectives with the right products and technologies for long-term success.
Service Delivery Networks (SDN)
Today's migration towards "always-on" web services requires a new type of network architecture, one that is built from the top-down to support technology solutions such as wireless, broadband, and web services. These solutions require optimal architectures which can support ubiquitous service access.
The emphasis on service delivery is the heart of the Service Delivery Network, a service-based network architecture for data center deployments. The Service Delivery Network Architecture Services provide a foundation for scalable e-services, such as those offered by Sun ONE, while helping customers meet demands for reliability and performance.
Sun Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program
Whether to release new services for your customers or new applications for your employees, it's critical that the deployment of new IT infrastructure be simple and easy. The Sun Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program delivers factory integrated, ready-to-deploy solutions, built to your exact specifications.
Sun BluePrints Program
Tough technical problems to solve? The Sun BluePrints program captures the real-world experiences of Sun's experts and provides technical best practices which address tough technical problems with Sun solutions.
Infrastructure Services
From learning solutions and managed services, to IT assessment and utility computing, Sun offers service solutions to help you reduce IT costs, time and risk. These solutions help you make the most of your IT investment while minimizing complexity and keeping your systems operating at optimal levels.
Business Continuity
Sun Business Continuity solution focuses on challenges companies face when business operations, processes, and/or IT infrastructure services are interrupted. In planning for business continuity and overcoming limitations in disaster recovery plans, companies need to analyze their potential risk, business impact, and disaster recovery capabilities. Sun experts leverage their expertise, partnerships, and products to provide you with an end-to-end Business Continuity solution that addresses these limitations and includes Data Continuity, Operational Resilience, and Disaster Recovery offerings.
Application Readiness Services
When facing tight timetables to launch new applications, you want to minimize risk of technical problems and identify system, storage, and security parameters that can impact availability and service level objectives. Sun offers services to smoothly design, configure, implement and test your Sun servers to the point of application loading.
Sun Reference Architectures
Reduce the complexity, costs and risks of deploying new technology in your enterprise by leveraging Sun's Reference Architectures in your system design. Each Reference Architecture is a designed, tested, sized and documented solution that addresses a specific business problem.
Data Center Reference Implementations (DCRI)
Lower the risk and total costs of ownership (TCO) of deploying a new data center by leveraging Sun's Data Center Reference Architecture Implementations (DCRI) in your system design. Sun Data Center Reference Architectures capture and detail best practices for a generic data center configuration. Data Center Reference Architecture Implementations detail the specific hardware, software and services required to deploy a small, medium and large data center.
Utility Computing
One new prospect already providing positive and demonstrative results in reducing IT costs, achieving greater efficiencies and improving quality of service is Utility Computing. Imagine if accessing computing resources were as simple as flipping a switch no hardware and software to maintain, you simply access them as you need them, and pay only for what you use. This concept is known as Utility Computing.
Managed Services
Flexibility and Control: Sun's approach to sourcing IT services. To help you manage mission-critical services in heterogeneous IT environments, Sun offers Sun Managed Services, a portfolio of IT infrastructure management capabilities. By taking a flexible approach to IT sourcing and service management, Sun Managed Services can help you address today's challenges while focusing on core competencies so you can run your business for competitive advantage. Sun Managed Services provides IT infrastructure management solutions that help you reduce cost, complexity and risk without the pitfalls often associated with total IT outsourcing.
Solaris 10 Operating System
Let the consolidation begin. Using new software partitioning technology coming with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun customers will be able to combine applications on servers safely, reliably, and with excellent manageability. The technology is called N1 Grid Containers, and it is designed to increase utilization of your hardware resources and boost your server-to-administrator ratio. With the N1 Grid Containers technology, you can create up to 4000 secure, fault-isolated software partitions (or containers), each with its own IP address, memory space, file area, host name, and root password.
Sun Cluster Software
Businesses today demand application service continuity at a low cost. 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. Under the Java Enterprise System, Sun Cluster software provides integrated high availability in a simple and affordable package.
N1 Grid System
N1 Grid solutions simplify IT operations by allowing you to manage your data center as if it were a single system. Using virtualization and automation technologies, N1 Grid takes operational efficiency to new heights. Rapid hardware and software provisioning enables administrators to effectively manage growing numbers of network services across complex IT infrastructures. N1 Grid also optimizes resource utilization through dynamic workload distribution and fine-grained partitioning of individual servers. By bringing crucial abstraction and automation into the data center, N1 Grid can help lower TCO and improve your productivity, service delivery, and corporate agility for a critical competitive edge.
Today's data centers face the challenge of delivering higher service levels with less. Lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) means more than just reducing the costs of initially acquiring IT resources. The far greater portion of TCO includes ongoing maintenance and support costs, as well as the potentially huge costs of downtime. The Sun Fire servers are designed to lower TCO by providing rock-solid availability, scalability with virtually no downtime, and flexible resource management.
Chip Multi-Threading (CMT)
Executing on Sun's Throughput Computing strategy, the dual-thread UltraSPARC IV processor marks the first milestone in Sun's Chip Multithreading (CMT) roadmap. Sun's UltraSPARC IV processor provides the unique combination of real world application performance and exceptional product quality for mission-critical enterprise, High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC), and compute-intensive applications. It protects customers' investments through 100 percent application binary compatibility, and can provide an upgrade path for current UltraSPARC III processor-based systems. Further, the UltraSPARC IV processor and the Solaris Operating System platform supports a wide range of applications, and boasts enterprise-class reliability.
Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series
The Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series helps enterprises
reduce the cost and complexity of secure network computing through
improved resource utilization, service consolidation, and leading
price/performance. The Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series
integrates Gigabit wire-speed application switching, chip-level embedded
security, and dynamic resource virtualization. This integration of
services into a single system helps to greatly reduce TCO and simplify
management of distributed computing environments by eliminating and
consolidating costly specialized components such as legacy server load
balancers, SSL accelerators, and bandwidth management appliances. The
Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series delivers breakthrough
price/performance, providing application switching throughput as high as
3 Gbps and SSL cryptographic throughput as high as 2 Gbps. Fine-grained
Layer 4 through Layer 7 filtering and hardware-based TCP termination
allow you to intelligently switch traffic without impacting performance.
In addition, optional virtual switching technology, which supports the
creation of as many as 10 virtual switches per system in select
configurations, helps maximize resource utilization and lets you
accommodate different workloads without rewiring or swapping hardware.
Sun Java Enterprise System Software
The Sun Java Enterprise System changes the enterprise software industry with a radical, new approach to how enterprise software is designed, developed and operated -- an approach that synchronizes IT investment with business priorities.
The Java Enterprise System combines software and services as a single entity, for a single price, per employee, per year. And by doing so, Sun solves the problem of integrating complex infrastructure software before the product even ship
