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

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

Most mid-size companies keep their servers for three to five years. Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain your already limited IT budget, because operational costs and other soft-dollar expenses (e.g. equipment warranties, licenses, and updates) to support your many installed servers will be high relative to the costs of consolidating servers.

With pressures to rein in budgets, a server refresh to Sun Fire servers based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series delivers profound performance and energy savings that businesses require today, and can cut significant costs through consolidation and virtualization without compromising performance.

Join experts from Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Ziff Davis Enterprise for this informative eSeminar, where you will learn how new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series-based Sun Fire servers enable mid-size companies to:

• dramatically consolidate the number of servers that need to be managed
• slash energy costs and staffing requirements
• reconsider what type of applications can be run on industry-standard processors
• substantially increase the number of virtual machines that can be supported
• achieve ROI in less than 12 months.

How can you deliver the solutions your users are clamoring for while reducing the costs and footprint of your ever-expanding Oracle Siebel CRM 8 requirements?

Join us for this informative recorded eSeminar to hear from industry experts at Sun Microsystems and Oracle Siebel, who will demonstrate how no-cost virtualization solutions from Sun can maximize CRM system utilization while minimizing power consumption and data center floor space.

Attendees will hear:

• How to get the most out of Oracle Siebel CRM 8 on Sun platforms
• Real-world PSPP testing and results that you can apply to your data center
• How to efficiently combine multiple CRM tiers for rackspace savings
• Scale-up and Scale-out solutions that reduce complexity
• How SPARC servers improve reliability, save money, and increase density
• Best practices for deployment of consolidated CRM offerings

In this brief webinar you'll learn about the latest industry trends and receive an introduction to Sun's virtualization approaches for deploying IBM Websphere applications on the Sun Solaris platform. Target audience includes: IT architects, administrators, managers for IBM Websphere application services who want to know more about Sun virtualization technologies.

IT consolidation through virtualization has emerged as an effective strategy for addressing the very real need for computing scalability while increasing the work that can be done in a given power, thermal, and physical footprint. Consolidation can improve resource utilization, reduce administrative complexity, and drive down IT costs.

But are you getting the most out of your virtualization dollar? Are your virtualized systems yielding the scalability you set out to achieve? Do the tools you're using allow the most creative solutions to your consolidation issues? In this recorded eSeminar you will learn about:

• Innovations in AMD Opteron processor technology
• Connections between processor innovation and virtualization
• Benchmarks that show Sun servers utilizing AMD Opteron processors deliver scalable performance

Sun's CoolThreads technology provides a native multi-threaded open environment that substantially improves the performance and the server efficiency of many segmented applications, especially web-facing applications. This means a reduction in data center "sprawl" and lower day to day operating costs. In challenging times, these technologies can help reduce costs and complexity of your datacenter environment.

In this recorded eSeminar you'll learn about:

• The benefits to the unique chip multithreading architecture of CoolThreads servers
• The no-cost, built-in methods that can be utilized to virtualize CoolThreads servers
• Real-world applications, examples of savings and customer testimonials
• Free resources available to evaluate CoolThreads technologies

The new economic reality of IT in the mid-market is that customers need systems that can scale easily, are simpler to manage and can lower their total cost of computing.

Sun & Intel Solutions for small & medium sized businesses will help you to do more, reduce costs, and drive new business. Put them to work on your biggest challenges. Sun has a full family of servers based on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (Code Name: Nehalem), that are ideal for midsize businesses looking for great performance;, server consolidation that will drive cost and energy savings; and plenty of room to grow and virtualize in the future. These servers support a wide range of OSes (including Windows, Linux, VMware) and application solutions to meet your needs.

The collaboration of Sun and Intel on a new generation of new flash-ready x64 rackmount Sun Fire (X2270, X4170, X4270, X4275) servers and Sun Blade (X6270, X6275) server modules based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series coupled with advanced solid-state storage and flash memory technology creates a compelling platform that benefit IT organizations of all sizes by:

• Removing the networking cost and complexity with breakaway networking integration
• Eliminate I/O bottleneck and deliver extreme performance and efficiency with next generation storage technology designed in the system from the ground up
• Provide customers maximum choice and flexibility
• Gain operational efficiencies with Sun's Open Network Systems-Sun's open system design approach to optimize and maximize all the individual components of the system to take full advantage of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series
• Providing a less than 1 year ROI with simple x86 server refresh and consolidation