Space and Transportation

Sun solutions for Space and Transportation offer powerful, standardized Air Traffic Solutions that address consolidation and cost concerns while effectively addressing key business issues such as open sky agreements and toll road initiatives. Sun's Technology for Netcentric Air Traffic Managmenet (ATM) utilize network-enabled data exchanges--letting pilots make informed decisions. At the same time, the Sun infrastructure supports the shift from control to management of air traffic operations, redeploying resources to concentrate on exceptions. Through integration, different actors and departments can bridge resources, people, equipment, facilities, and information with scaleable, open systems, ensuring information access across a multitude of disparate hardware, operating, and network systems. Suddenly, you can integrate and automate inter-related activities, such as scheduling gate facilities in real time. Sun's robust and dependable Solaris OS on open platforms gives you a low-cost and cost-efficient solution that is delivered via secure, thin clients.
 
Success Stories
Sun Storage Area Management Helps MDA Federal Enhance Service Offerings & Minimize IT Labor Costs
This leading provider of global mapping services chose Sun servers and StorageTek SAM software to manage its 2.2-petabyte library of satellite images. This solution enables an IT staff of only four to support more than 250 users, which keeps costs low and promotes efficiency and innovation.
Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute: Moving Faster with Sun
Sun Fire 15K server replaces two Silicon Graphics servers, providing 20 times more performance, thereby drastically improving accuracy of weather forecasts.
Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI): Predicting a Cost-E
Sun Solaris software gives the KNMI cost-effective solutions now and sets them up for future success.
 
 
White Papers
Grid computing gets NSF grant boost
Grid computing - a form of next-generation high-performance computing - is getting a boost in the United States and in Britain through recently announced grants.
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.
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.