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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
UK GRID SPECIALIST PAREMUS ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH SUN
Paremus Ltd announced an Alliance partnership with Sun Microsystems Inc.
Formed in 2001 by senior IT architects from the investment banking industry,
Paremus brings a wealth of pragmatic experience and practical knowledge to the
development of Grid and middleware solutions for mission-critical real-time
enterprise environments.
"Sun and Paremus share a common vision of next generation business
applications built upon self-healing, dynamically scalable and functionally
evolvable compute fabrics," said Mike Francis, business development manager at
Paremus. "Enterprises in the financial services industry are demanding these
capabilities now, expecting unprecedented cost, resilience and agility
benefits, so this is a very exciting time for both Sun and Paremus."
Paremus utility consulting services reveal the core recovery, agility and cost
characteristics of an organization's IT environment in order to determine
which business systems may benefit from Grid computing. In this holistic
manner Paremus helps clients to make tangible, incremental, and safe steps
towards realizing an open, autonomic, utility enterprise infrastructure
service.
Sun's Grid Everywhere initiative features a three-pronged approach to Grid
deployment based on building block components, extensive partnerships and
alliances. Grid Everywhere is led by Sun's High-Performance and Technical
Computing (HPTC) business unit, which was formed a year ago to leverage Sun's
deep experience in HPTC and its broad portfolio of products and solutions to
grow Sun's stake in high performance technical computing.
In addition, Sun is the Platinum Sponsor of Gt'04, an event being held May
24-26 in Philadelphia. Gt'04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing
conference targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts,
and outline strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more
information, visit www.gt04.com .
"Sun and Paremus offer financial services companies a first-mover advantage in
building a peer-to-peer Grid fabric," said Shahin Khan, Sun's vice president
of high performance and technical computing. "This approach solves a specially
thorny problem: integrating and orchestrating resources and services while
providing a high degree of resilience."
"This alliance is much more than a meeting of minds," said Richard Nicholson,
CTO of Paremus. "We have been working with Sun's Java/Jini technology for many
years in the context of robust, recovery-oriented systems for enterprise
environments. The resultant autonomic solutions enable Paremus enterprise
clients to truly exploit Sun's N1 Grid and Throughput processor technologies,
whilst leveraging existing legacy systems, in a true utility data center
environment."
About Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at http://sun.com .
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