As IT becomes an enterprise business function and contributes directly to companies competitive strength, the availability and the service level provided by the IT infrastructure becomes more critical. Sun management partners in combination with innovative manageability capacities, embedded in Sun's infrastructure, provide customers with unique management capabilities and allow them to get more value out of their investment in management technologies and enterprise infrastructure.
Featured System & Storage Management Partners
AppWorx is infrastructure software best used as part of your application platform suite. Unlike the competition, our software is more than simply a "job scheduler". It's a whole new way of thinking about application batch management.
AppWorx is designed to provide you with unique capabilities throughout the application life cycle. These capabilities benefit all application constituencies, from application developers and system integrators, to system administrators and computer operators, to functional end users and business managers.
BMC Software, Inc. develops software that provides systems and service management solutions for large enterprises. It operates in four segments: Mainframe Management, Distributed Systems Management, Service Management, and Identity Management. Mainframe Management segment offers MAINVIEW solutions, which manage, automate, and optimize the depth and breadth of z/OS, DB2, CICS, IMS, Linux, middleware, the Web, and storage. This segment also includes its SmartDBA solutions that manage and recover DB2 and IMS databases and job scheduling products. Distributed Systems Management segment provides BMC Performance Manager and PATROL solutions that manage information technology (IT) infrastructure in distributed computing environments; SmartDBA solutions that manage Oracle, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server, and Sybase databases; job scheduling and output management products; applications management solutions that manage SAP and Siebel environments; and Enterprise Performance Assurance solutions that optimize system performance and capacity planning. The Service Management segment offers service delivery management, service impact management, IT service management for the enterprise, IT service support, and IT service management for outsourcers. The Identity Management segment provides a suite of products to facilitate enterprise directory management and visualization, Web access control, user administration and provisioning, password management, and audit and compliance management.
The combination of Sun, the Solaris OS, and SPARC is a very popular EMC server platform and continues to be so, especially with growing interest and momentum in the Solaris 10 OS and the AMD Opteron processor-based systems. Sun's relationship with EMC (established in 1993), has provided many joint customers with solutions on Solaris OS based platforms.
Now we are extending that relationship. As we all know, Sun is dedicated to making it easier for customers to manage and run their data centers by working with major ISVs and IHVs, like EMC, to help ensure their applications run on Sun platforms. In support of this objective, we are growing our partner ecosystem - we have a new cooperative agreement between Sun and EMC, announced in June, 2005.
IT resources are supposed to work together so people can work together. But all too often, each new addition to the data center is a new headache for administrators. The hodgepodge of heterogeneous systems, operating environments, data silos, and security technologies can transform the grand vision of on-demand information into an expensive and unmanageable mess.
That has to stop. And that's why Sun and Computer Associates (CA), two powerful forces that have fueled the growth of network computing for decades, are working harder than ever toward one common goal: streamlining operations management to cut the total cost of ownership (TCO) for IT assets.
Today, our alliance - ten years old and stronger than ever - is paying off for you in new ways. With CA's commitment to port key products to the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), enterprise customers will now be able to optimize systems availability and performance, reduce ownership costs, and gain greater business value from their data center investments.
Halcyon is a Systems Management solution provider offering software solutions since 1994 that provide availability for business critical applications and the systems they run on. Halcyon has developed enterprise management software for two of the world's largest computer and networking manufacturers.
With the successful completion of the Symantec-VERITAS merger, Symantec now delivers world-class security and availability solutions from one powerful, global company. As the world's fourth largest independent software company, the new Symantec makes it easier for customers to secure and manage their critical information assets with today's industry-leading solutions. Symantec's expanded portfolio of security, data protection, storage, high availability, and application service management products and services enables partners to help their customers ensure the integrity of their information.
OpTier™ develops software that dynamically assures IT business service levels and optimizes resources for the enterprise. The leader in Transaction Workload Management, OpTier introduces a transactional context for IT service management.
OpTier transaction management solutions automatically discover, manage, track and profile all transactions - across all tiers - to clearly map IT business service topology at the transaction level. They improve collaboration among different stakeholders by providing them with a common transactional context and reduce the cost and time to resolve application performance issues. They further maintain a fair share of resources and prioritize transactions based on business policies. Thus an organization can protect core services and users and deliver more from current IT infrastructure.
TeamQuest is the global leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO), helping IT organizations consistently meet IT service levels while minimizing infrastructure costs and mitigating risks. Specializing in capacity planning techniques, including analytic modeling, simulation modeling and trending, TeamQuest offers a suite of software products, called TeamQuest Performance Software.
