Systems/Enterprise:
SUN ANNOUNCES SERVICE OPTIMIZED DATA CENTER PROGRAM
At its Network Computing '04Q4 launch, Sun Microsystems Inc announced the Sun
Service Optimized Data Center program, a new comprehensive roadmap of services
and technologies to help customers deploy and manage IT services faster,
smarter and more cost-effectively in their data centers. The program,
delivered through Sun's Client Solutions organization, can help new and
current Sun customers transform their data centers through highly automated
service-oriented architectures. Utilizing Solaris 10 and Sun's N1 Grid
technologies, the program can help customers improve IT integration across
data centers and business units.
"This is another milestone in Sun's march towards reinventing the global
delivery of services and solutions," said Ed Valdez, vice president of
integrated solutions marketing at Sun Microsystems Inc. "This is the
cornerstone of many programs we will launch in the coming year to help
customers transform their data centers and reduce the overall cost and
complexity of doing business."
"Sun's new program is helping EDS optimize its data center operations and
significantly reduce costs," said Larry Lozon, vice president of EDS Hosting
Services.
EDS recently used elements of the program, including Sun's architecture and
server consolidation methodologies, to revise and rationalize a large SAP
infrastructure implementation.
"We were able to reduce our client's data center complexity, simplify systems
management and administration tasks, and reduce overall maintenance costs by
more than 40 percent and support costs by more than 30 percent," said Lozon.
"We also reduced the number of operating systems instances by approximately 30
percent, cutting management complexity by as much as 33 percent."
Program Building Blocks Improve Agility, Efficiency And Security
To help customers design and build an agile data center environment that can
provide fast, automated deployment and management of new IT services, Sun's
program begins with the development of a clearly defined architectural
roadmap. Sun then delivers the building blocks necessary for customers to
execute the transformation of their data centers and operations, which may
include some or all of the following:
- Solaris 10, the technology backbone of the new program, delivers one-
of-a-kind functionality to address the most important trouble spots for
customers -- helping to dramatically improve performance, security,
availability and manageability.
- Sun Services' industry-proven methodologies and tools in migration, managed
services, automation, consolidation for vertically- or horizontally-scaled
platforms and to deploy enterprise or service-oriented architectures.
- Use of Sun's Operations Management Capability Model, based on principles
from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Controls
Objective for Information and Related Technology (COBIT).
- Analysis and methodologies to simplify or reduce the number of operating
system environments.
- The transformation of operational capabilities and management processes,
which can be supported by Sun Preventive Services and Sun Managed Services;
the automation of provisioning, change control and IT agility, driven by Sun's
Solaris 10 and N1 Grid technologies; the choice of new business models, such
as utility and subscriptions models; and, ultimately, the initiation of
architecture and IT governance processes across a business.
- Sun leads the development and execution of a program management office,
created as part of the roadmap, which serves to coordinate as the IT
governance board on all future technology deployments.
About Sun Microsystems Inc
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a 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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