Sun Webinars

Join us at this webinar to discover key concepts and benefits of enterprise consolidation and the appropriate strategy, processes and technology you need to pull it off. Poor server utilization, deployment complexity and scalability issues increase total cost of ownership and adversely affect your organization's goals. We'll share with you all the information you need to meet all of the requirements for scalability, high availability, performance, virtualization and manageability for server consolidation. You'll also hear customer examples of proven ways to simplify your data center, lower your TCO, and improve your ability to meet service level agreements.

Learn how Sun's FlashFire portfolio of solid-state storage products can help you meet the challenges of data-intensive computing and faster application response times with greater speed and efficiency. Listen to this on-demand webinar with Sun experts featuring the newest Flash technologies, an immediate solution for improved performance and turbo charging database applications.

As the economic downturn impacts most IT organizations, hardware upgrades are often more difficult to justify. It's essential that IT professionals understand the entire set of justifications and benefits that come from server upgrades, not just one or two. While there has been a great deal of discussion about the performance and power savings of the new Sun servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (codename: Nehalem), the reality is that there is much more to these new server products.

Agenda:

• Server Upgrades - Are the reasons right?
• A Longer Term View of IT Needs and Infrastructure Changes Argues for Upgrades
• Improvements to the Memory Designs and Architectures Are Key
• Tactical Reasons to Upgrade

Learn how Sun Business Ready HPC delivers simulation optimized compute and storage infrastructure with leading application performance. By using infrastructure that has been configured and tuned for Ansys simulation software, companies can see measurable business benefits including faster product development cycles.

Visit the only virtual conference dedicated to the best in high performance computing. During this virtual event, you will have an opportunity to hear from HPC guru, Andy Bechtolsheim, and leading industry analysts discuss the trends and issues facing the computational ecosystem. In addition, industry and technology exhibits provide virtual opportunities to discuss technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management software.

We all know driving ROI is critical to the justification of your server refresh, upgrade, or virtualization project. Faster, more powerful servers comprise one piece of the solution, but outdated networking equipment could also be slowing your data center down and preventing your company from leveraging the full benefits of virtualization/consolidation and maximizing ROI.

The latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server.

You will learn:

• How Sun's Network Express Module technology works
• How easy it is to achieve high availability and near-instant failover
• How to reduce network cabling by a factor of 10:1
• How to simplify network and storage management
• The benefits of lower energy costs/increased performance from Intel's latest processor family

Learn from the experts how best to apply cutting edge high-performance computing techniques—such as cloud clustering and multi-core optimization—in a life sciences environment. Find out how you can optimize performance, simplify management and reduce costs for highly scalable clusters. Join Sun, Univa and eXludus for this one-hour webinar, which includes real-world examples and a Q&A session.

Learn how you can deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure with speed, simplicity, and savings. Enterprise collaboration initiatives such as blogs, wikis, and content management applications can be powerful ways to enhance productivity, increase innovation, and improve efficiency within your organization. But with budgets tight during the economic downturn, you have to do more with less.

With Sun ONS Enterprise 2.0 Solution for Oracle, you can:

• Deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure up to 75% faster than traditional approaches
• Improve communication and collaboration with simple delivery of social media like wikis, blogs, forums, and more
• Get breakaway performance and up to 83% reduction in servers compared to competition
• Save up to 75% in storage, and up to 60% lower real estate and 65% reduced electricity costs
• Up to 55% lower networking costs, and 90% fewer networking cables required
• Advanced, easy-to-use analytics remove bottlenecks and speed performance

The newest generation of Sun systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs) will help improve the economics of your data center by offering lower data center power usage, improving performance, lowering operating costs, and providing higher reliability. Sun and Intel have combined to improve SSD products, making them an essential tool for meeting challenges common in real-world IT environments. This eSeminar will provide you with the information that you need to best implement SSDs and achieve the optimal ROI and service level improvements that you require.

The joint work on SSDs by Intel and Sun has changed the market, and we'll discuss key elements of these advances such as:

• SSD Product Details and Technology Overview
• SSD Benefits - Where the Real Payback is Found
• Applications that See the Greatest Benefit From SSDs
• Real-World Usage Models

Watch this webcast to explore how Sun Microsystems' Intel and AMD based servers, coupled with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V can enhance your data center virtualization effort, as well as the various capabilities this new approach enables, including:

• Run more virtual machines in the same footprint
• Lower virtual machine TCO
• Support complex virtual networking enviromnents
• And more