Tarantella - Secure, Universal Access to Financial Applications

Tarantella's secure remote access to trading applications on various platforms from a variety of client desktops and devices, enables business continuity and reduced desktop management costs.

Businesses today need to deliver a wide range of applications to a variety of clients. The financial services industry presents a particular challenge to its IT organization, which must ensure minute-by-minute access to critical data and applications, while complying with exceptionally tight accountability regulations, global dispersion and security standards.

Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop Software, running on the Sun platform, provides universal access securely via the Web, to applications of various platforms, without requiring any code modification or disruption to a company's existing infrastructure. Whether functioning as part of a disaster recovery system, or providing general access to data center resources, Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop Software is a cost effective and secure way to drastically reduce desktop management cost and complexity. Employed by banks, traders, insurance practices and financial institutions around the world, Tarantella's built-in encryption, application usage auditing and other security features help ensure these organizations meet stringent industry security standards and practices.

Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop Software also reduces IT maintenance costs and complexity by centralizing application delivery. Heterogeneous applications are published from a central data center to client devices in multiple locations. Tarantella's solutions help companies speed software updates at the application server level, eliminating the need to install software on individual desktop devices. Tarantella solutions assist in disaster recovery; provide access to back-up copies of applications, and minimize disruption of transactions. Applications, as well as data, are secure with Tarantella's built-in encryption and application usage audits, which track user activity and provide accountability trails. More than seventy-five percent of Tarantella's installed base runs on the Sun platform and leverages Sun's scalability, security and unique combination of high-performance Sun Enterprise servers, the Solaris Operating System both x86 and SPARC Platform Editions, and Sun Ray thin clients.

Sun Microsystems Solutions for the Financial Services Industry

Sun is a leading provider of technologies and services for the financial services market. By leveraging cross-platform technologies and straight through processing, Sun solutions help financial services companies accelerate time-to-market, minimize risk, reduce costs and achieve superior levels of customer relationship management. Our areas of expertise include:

Capital Markets
Sun and our strategic partners focus on top priorities such as risk management, compliance issues, data infrastructure and application rationalization, to help capital market enterprises meet current business needs and regulatory challenges.

Corporate Banking
To reach a broad base of corporate clients with low-cost solutions, Sun is focused on several key areas including corporate profitability management, payments infrastructure, business process automation and Web-based trade facilitation.

Retail Banking
Innovative open platform solutions are available for banks with a desire to lower total cost of ownership, increase system security, and simplify operations. Sun solutions help lower risk by providing platform solutions for core banking and retail branch technology.

Insurance
Sun applies world-class methodologies to deliver on operational excellence, and leverage its partners to deliver a choice of solutions that can be deployed in a variety of architectures. The goal is to take out costs, position the firm for growth, and make the carriers more adaptable to change.

Sun and Sun Partners: Best of Breed Solutions for Competitive Advantage

Sun is dedicated to reducing financial services customers' cost and complexity. Together with our partners, Sun can provide financial customers with reliable, mission-critical applications with worldwide services and support. Capitalizing on new technologies, the Sun Java Enterprise System, and our Sun Partner solutions, we provide a scalable foundation for integrating business processes, content services and industry solutions using both traditional and Web-based applications. Using Sun and Sun Partner solutions, financial services companies can integrate systems, data, networks and legacy applications to create a single view of a customer, a portfolio, or a market. This provides the competitive advantage enabling financial services enterprises to reliably and securely maintain, track, and deliver timely and accurate information to customers, traders, regulators, and financial partners, all at lower costs.

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For more information on Sun Microsystems Solutions for the Financial Services Industry, please visit sun.com/finance or e-mail us at FSsolutions@sun.com.

For more information on Tarantella, Inc., please visit www.tarantella.com.