Sun Solution Centers

Sun executives and Sun partners illustrate how Sun technology fits with your strategic business planning in these Sun Solution Center briefings, including overviews of Sun technology, industry specific solutions, or custom demonstrations.

Ever-changing product landscapes can make it difficult to convey ideas and proposals to those in an organization without experience in the latest technologies. Sun Solution Center incubation labs offer engineers the opportunity to grow ideas into business propositions by leveraging virtual teams drawn from Solution Centers, partner, and customer resources.

The Sun Solution Centers' Utility Computing service offers computing resources and infrastructure management to customers. Sun works with customers and partners to develop UC solutions that align with a customer's business activities and IT budget. Customers are given a transparent view of their IT infrastructure, allowing them to lower cost, system complexity, and time to market. UC services can include UC Cost/Price Modeling, Architecture and Design, Proof-of-Concept, and Performance and Scalability Testing of UC solutions.

Sun Solution Centers assemble under one roof whatever expertise is needed—ISV's, SI's, Sun and customer experts—to develop solution architectures and to implement real-world solutions. At the end of the engagement, customers have a custom proof-of-concept blueprint for:

• Architecture design
• Hardware and software selection
• Business processes
• Load testing
• Performance and characterization
• Final recommendation for "go live" implementation

Use the Sun Solution Centers' deep expertise in enterprise application systems that run on Sun technology, including those from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAS, Informatica, and Cognos. Our services include architecture development, capacity planning, on-site technical consulting, best practice consulting, workshops, reference implementations, and training.

Ensure that Sun technology-based systems will meet current and future requirements by sizing production systems and testing performance and scalability at the Sun Solution Centers.

Our broad knowledge and experience with industry-specific solutions that run on Sun technology allows us to evaluate industry-specific applications and systems to build best-of-breed industry solutions. Recent prototyping projects include RFID, security, identity management, supply chain management, and retail banking solutions.

The Sun Solution Centers quickly assess customer needs and document technical requirements for business solutions using our extensive knowledge base, developed from thousands of engagements completed at our Centers around the world.

Customers collaborate with Sun experts to create and review proposed concepts and architectures, and then select an architecture that fits their requirements.

Take advantage of the Sun Solution Centers' heterogeneous storage solution expertise to build storage requirements into any business solution.

Test high-performance computing (HPC) and scientific applications on Sun platform.

Commercial applications running on a grid platform can leverage our grid resources to test and prototype those applications.