Health, Human and Social Services

Sun brings a remarkable depth and breadth of experience to national Human and Social Services, including Social Services Programs such as healthcare services, employment, and pensions. Sun works with each government’s principal agencies to protect the health and well being of its citizens and provide essential human services, especially for those least able to help themselves. Sun, with its trusted partner solutions, provides the infrastructure and applications for the administration of child and family services, administration for aging, healthcare research and quality initiatives, disease control and prevention, health benefit coverage and service providers, food and drug administration, indigenous population services, pensions, and other government funded social programs.

By choosing Sun, government and citizens gain access-appropriate, need-to-know information and the ability to collaborate anytime, anywhere. Sun offers proven solutions for the HHSS government infrastructure that are designed to provide real-time, security-centric access to information, applications, and people when and where they are needed, from almost any device.
 

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Harrow Council
This government body used the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) to integrate its SAP and line of business applications. This enables better citizen services though unified information and it paves the way for creation and delivery of new innovative services.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory Benefit from Faster & More Complex Problem Solving with Sun Technology
With Sun's help, INL deployed a high performance unified and secure grid computing infrastructure that can complete two trillion (2 teraflop) floating-point operations per second.
Slovak National Library Gets Public Online with Sun Ray Technology & Solaris 10 Operating System from Sun Microsystems
A national library in Europe is delivering free Internet access and online resources throughout its system on virtual desktops from Sun Microsystems. Sun Ray virtual display clients and centrally managed servers are also reducing administrative overhead and energy costs.
 
 
White Papers
Fresh faces of storage
From the earliest days of enterprise computing until recently, what passed for innovation in the storage market was a predictable, unexciting march that moved in lockstep with a few big vendors' product development road maps.
Labor closes a window on open source
The Labor Department has seen some success with open-source software, but is moving away from using it on one of its most high-visibility projects, www.DisabilityInfo.gov.
Security Guidelines for Vetting and Fielding Java Solutions
This paper presents a practical Java-based approach to enterprise security. Java runtime checking enforces a site security policy, and greatly reduces the need for software vetting.
 
 
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Sun Virtual Desktop Solution in Government
Solution brief describing the benefits of Sun Virtual Desktop (VDI) solutions in government.
Sun Opens Business Solutions Center
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has teamed with leading software, service and solution providers to open a new Sun Solution Center for Government in the Washington, D.C.
Thin-client computing might answer security woes
Faced with mounting privacy and security mandates, federal agencies are seeing the benefits of operating in a thin-client world.