This is the reality of today's IT department: Regulations are increasing; data demands are growing; energy costs are rising; and data centers are complex to build and maintain. The Sun Grid Compute Utility neatly addresses each of these pain points and achieves critical business and IT goals:
- Cost containment: Sun Grid $1/CPU-hr price is all-inclusive. This predictable pricing model makes the decision easy: pay only for what you consume and switch IT from a capital to an operational expense.
- Manage data explosion: Sun Grid is a resource for companies struggling with data center capacity issues. Need a little storage now but anticipating a greater need next month? No problem - that's the beauty of a utility
- Manage power, cooling, and space constraints: Turn the hassle of data center management over to Sun. It's our business, not your headache.
- Improve infrastructure flexibility: Sun Grid is the answer to both underutilized data centers and those that are at capacity. In either scenario (and all those in between), Sun Grid is IT as a service, to be used as often and as much as required.
- Improve business processes: The utility model provides businesses with better IT value, more capacity, less risk, and the ultimate IT flexibility to enable better alignment between business needs and what IT delivers.
- Improve security and compliance: Sun Grid has security built-in on multiple levels to ensure a highly secure utility platform that protects customer data assets. Sun Grid features a system of technologies that are optimized to work together and include integrated privacy and unique security controls throughout the "stack" to enable regulatory compliance.
Is Compute Utility Right for You?
Sun Grid provides everyone equal access to large-scale computing resources. Never before have so many been able to access such computing power as easily and as instantaneously. Customers can turn to Sun Grid if they want to bolster their compute infrastructure, grow their business, avoid capital expenditures or for any reason want to offload some of their non-transactional workloads to a commodity compute infrastructure.
Bottom-line Benefits
The flexible Sun Grid business model radically simplifies the way you select, acquire, and use next-generation IT infrastructure. The control is in your hands: You access the computing power you need, when you need it, with no hidden costs or long-term contractual obligations, increasing or decreasing your usage as demand requires. You only pay for what you use.
The Sun Grid utility model enables:
- organizations to increase data center capacity...
- small businesses to tap into enterprise data center resources for the first time...
- IT departments to manage project and usage volatility, and optimize resources...
...without making large capital investments. It's affordable, accessible, and easy to use. It's Sun Grid.
