Sun Solution Center: Edinburgh, UK

The Sun Solution Center in Edinburgh is the largest single SSC facility in the world. The Center in Edinburgh provides a central infrastructure that supports many smaller centers in countries and in our partner channel. The Center prides itself on its innovative environment and superior engineering skills. At the Center, customers work with Sun engineers and partners to conduct proofs-of-concept, test performance and scalability, and build working prototypes of business solutions.

Overview

At the Sun Solution Center in Edinburgh, customers can take advantage of unprecedented resources to help them more effectively make purchasing and implementing decisions, and improve total cost of ownership. The Edinburgh Center offers an enormous range of services, including collaborative workshops, solution architectures, proofs-of-concept and prototyping, blueprints, system architectures, performance testing, and benchmarking. Customers can either visit the Center or participate remotely over secure VPN. The Center helps Sun customers throughout Europe learn about the Sun platform through training, workshops, and technical seminars, and incubation projects.

Some of the services offered at the Sun Solution Center in Edinburgh include:

• Proofs-of-concept development and testing
• Solution benchmarking
• Grid, HPC, and utility computing test environment
• Training, hands-on labs, workshop, and technical seminars
• Storage and data management (Center of Excellence)
• Solaris Ready certification

Regional Sun Partners:

The Sun Solution Center in Edinburgh enjoys unprecedented investment and support from global IHV and ISV Sun partners. Among them:

• ADVA
• Alcatel
• AMCC
• ApplQ
• Armadillo Cables
• Asigra
• AXS-One
• BMC Software
• Brocade
• Cisco
• Cloverlead Communications, Inc.
• Cyclades
• Dot Hill
• Emulex
• Engenio/LSI
• FalconStor
• FiberNet
• FiberTech
• Hitachi Data Systems
• HP Tape
• Huawei
• Kashya
• Legato
• MaXXan
• McData
• Nortel
• Overland Storage
• PacketLight
• QLogic
• Quantum
• San Valley
• Texas Memory Systems
• Transmode
• Veritas