Date: 27-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/service/enterprisemigration/offerings.jsp

Enterprise Migration Suite

Sun offers a suite of services to help you achieve a successful migration. These offerings protect your legacy application investment, mitigate future migrations, improve IT efficiency and service delivery, and allow you to adapt to evolving corporate standards, strategies, and regulatory pressures.

Upgrades to Solaris 10

Port an Application

Migrate from non-Sun platforms

 

For Sun customers who want to upgrade to Solaris 10
Capabilities
Solaris 10 Evaluation Service
  • Discussion of the features and benefits of Solaris 10 and how they can positively impact your applications and business operations.
  • Discussion of the pros and cons of different upgrade methodologies.
  • Demonstration of one your applications running on Solaris 10.
  • Recommendation for the next steps for Solaris 10 adoption.
Solaris 10 Upgrade Services
  • Sun has many tools and training options for customers who want to perform their own upgrade
  • For customers with limited resources or no in-house knowledge, Sun or Partner consultants can recommend the best approach and perform the upgrade tasks
Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Container Implementation
  • Analyze Solaris 8 or 9 application(s) for suitability of use with Containers
  • Weigh alternatives of using Containers as an interim step versus directly upgrading to Solaris 10
  • Implement Containers by archiving existing system environment, configuring Containers and installing application(s) on new system running Solaris 10
  • Testing of application on new system

 

For Applications
Capabilities
Sun Application Migration Service
  • Available for custom UNIX or Linux applications
  • Documents migration plan and specific application porting task designs
  • Includes porting or re-hosting activities, cleaning source code & shells, creating new binaries compliant with new OS version
  • Handover to customer for acceptance testing
Application Migration Factory
  • Sun has partnered with off-shore companies to assist with scenarios where many applications need to be ported to Solaris 10.
 

 

For migrating non-Sun platforms
to Sun systems and software
Capabilities
Sun Enterprise Migration Justification Review
  • Scope the project by understanding current architecture, development environment, resources and constraints, 3rd party and in-house components
  • Select the best migration strategy
  • Obtain order of magnitude estimates for overall project complexity and size
  • Articulate a business case for transformation
Sun Enterprise Migration Architecture Service
  • Assess applications, data, IT infrastructure and IT services
  • Architect new IT infrastructure solution required for updated business services
  • Propose application and data migration process and tools
Sun Enterprise Migration Implementation Service Perform the tasks necessary for a successful transformation including:
  • Migration or re-architecture of the application and data including partnerships with off-shore companies to assist with scenarios where many applications need to be ported
  • Testing, implementation and optimization of the future systems and network architecture
  • Testing of the pre-production environment
  • Update i-Runbooks and documentation
  • Recommendations for training and operations management

Take the Next Step

Contact your local Sun sales representative to learn how you can begin to maximize your IT investment, improve compliance, reduce risk, adapt to business change and experience fewer unplanned and expensive IT outages. Contact Sun Professional Services. Let us worry about your infrastructure, so you can focus on your business.

 
 
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