Sun Microsystems has introduced a portfolio of pre-built data centre solutions to provide a proven network computing infrastructure on which customers can run their business and lower computing costs. Sun Infrastructure Solutions (SIS) combine products, services and detailed methodologies to deliver predictable and reliable data centre functionality within strict project parameters.
Engineered to reduce deployment risk, these solutions have been architected, implemented and managed using best practices in Sun iForce centres and then pre-tested and managed in live customer environments around the world.
Jan Dry, regional technology solutions manager at Sun Microsystems SA, says four Sun Infrastructure Solutions are immediately available. These are the SIS for Enterprise Continuity, SIS for Infinite Mailbox, SIS for Enterprise Consolidation and SIS for Network Identity.
"With the development of SIS, Sun has responded to customers' needs for solutions that can be rapidly and reliably deployed within tightly delineated time frames," says Dry. "This removes a great deal of complexity from managing projects as application delivery needs can be matched to budgets and time frames from the workgroup through to the data centre."
Dry says that SIS's combination of best practices and successes from Sun's technology and services arms and its extensive portfolio of hardware and software products, enables the company and its iForce partners to deliver business-ready infrastructure at unmatched speeds. "SIS's incorporate the essential building blocks for network computing and deliver them to customers in a production-proven, easy-to-customise and easy-to-deploy manner," he explains.
Apart from best-practice methodologies and Sun Reference Architectures, each solution includes Sun lifecycle services, support and financing, and technology refresh services as part of the offering.
SIS for Enterprise Continuity is a joint effort with Nortel Networks to ensure higher data centre availability at greater distances. Built on the active/active SunPlex environment, with its foundation in the Sun StorEdge Open SAN architecture, SIS Enterprise Continuity turns multiple data centres into a single, virtually always-on, data centre.
SIS for Infinite Mailbox provides simple, economical and secure e-mail digital archiving. The solution incorporates a platform-independent, massively scalable, transparent method of controlling the rising cost of e-mail environments, while complying with regulatory requirements to archive e-mail.
SIS for Enterprise Consolidation reduces cost and complexity, while improving service levels and utilisation of resources in the data centre. It offers a proven consolidation methodology as well as products, technologies and services to consolidate to a common architecture of fewer, more powerful and better-utilised systems. This solution can help to create an environment that is less costly, less complex and easier to manage.
SIS for Network Identity delivers the first standards-based network identity solution that secures the access, delivery, and management of network identities. Based on the Sun ONE platform, SIS for Network Identity allows organisations to quickly adapt to changing customer and enterprise requirements, and includes support for the Liberty Alliance protocols for Federated Network Identity Management. The solution reduces the growing silos of identity information and provides significant cost reductions through improved productivity and automation of business processes.
"Each Sun Infrastructure Solution includes an economical evaluation workshop to help customers assess how the solutions can add value to their specific situations," concludes Dry.
Sun Infrastructure Solutions will be available through Sun and its iForce partners. For more information about Sun Infrastructure Solutions and the available solutions, please see www.sun.com/infrastructure-solutions.
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