StorageTek Ready Program

Sun StorageTek Ready Program Overview

Sun is the global leader in comprehensive network computing and data management. With each innovation, Sun delivers on our core competencies - technology, collaborative marketing, and expert field support to complement our Technology Partners.

The Sun StorageTek Ready Program enables select storage Technology Partners, including Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and OEMs, to certify their products and solutions as fully interoperable with Sun StorageTek platforms. Qualified partners with the vision to build complete storage solutions can partner with Sun to attain a strategic advantage. Together, we deliver better choices and higher quality products to our mutual customers.

The Sun StorageTek Ready Program differentiates to the world, through the Sun StorageTek Ready logo, those Technology Partners and their solutions that demonstrate the highest value in meeting real customer challenges. The Sun StorageTek Ready logo certifies solutions that have been tested by Sun and qualified as fully interoperable with Sun StorageTek platforms. Products bearing this valued logo carry a distinct competitive advantage that supports increased customer confidence and loyalty.

Customer benefits of the Sun StorageTek Ready program:

• Simplified Decision Making
  Partner products and solutions that display the Sun StorageTek Ready logo enable customers to make confident, informed purchasing decisions.
  
  
• High Value, Highly Flexible, and Timely Solutions
  The Sun StorageTek Ready Solutions help customers more easily solve high impact data management business challenges with Sun's innovative infrastructure platforms and interoperable offerings from our Sun StorageTek Ready partners.
  
  
• Simplified Product Support
  Sun StorageTek Ready partner products are cooperatively supported. Customers are ensured no hassle, no finger-pointing "One Call" solution support for set up as well as long term support.
  
  
• Trusted Partner Identification
  Customers can more quickly and confidently identify top tier ISV and IHV solution providers who are actively endorsed by Sun.