In a move designed to help companies consolidate their server investments and improve resource utilisation, Sun Microsystems has radically cut the pricing structure of two key resource management software offerings.
Designed to benefit system administrators, the new structure improves access to Solaris Resource Manager and Solaris Bandwidth Manager thereby helping administrators to simplify management and increase service levels.
"In SA, these dramatic price cuts of 30% for Solaris Resource Manager and 90% for Solaris Bandwidth Manager, will be particularly welcome within companies that are looking at server consolidation," says Tertius Bezuidenhout, SA national systems engineer manager at Sun Microsystems SA.
"Lately we are seeing a lot of companies consolidating their server farms to reduce footprint and house multiple workloads and applications on a lower number of servers. This announcement dramatically lowers investment costs and improves the total cost of ownership concept," says Bezuidenhout.
He adds that current economic conditions are causing system administrators to take a closer look at resource utilisation. "Solaris Resource Manager and Solaris Bandwidth Manager software products are ideally designed for customers to gain greater efficiencies from existing resources by providing the tools to give them greater control over bandwidth and system resources."
The benefits of each product include:
. Solaris Bandwidth Manager software is a powerful and flexible solution for allocating bandwidth to applications, users and organisations sharing the same intranet or Internet link. The software gives systems administrators and service providers the ability to more efficiently control network traffic by ensuring bandwidth for mission-critical business applications without incurring the cost of over-provisioning network bandwidth.
. Solaris Resource Manager software manages a system's compute resources by assuring resource availability and better resource utilisation. System administrators who want to consolidate users or applications onto a single server can use Solaris Resource Manager software to ensure allocation of resources based on business priority.
"As a result, a single system administrator can manage more applications or users on fewer servers and operating system instances, thereby improving hardware resource utilisation," explains Bezuidenhout.
Some examples include the ability for a business to host its multiple Web sites on a single server, using the Solaris Resource Manager software to manage the allocation between its Web sites. Or, in a development environment, to host multiple developers on a single server with Solaris Resource Manager software managing the entitlements between users.
Sun is working with the system management software vendor community, including industry leaders such as BMC Software and TeamQuest, to deliver low-risk, effective server consolidation solutions with new capacity planning, configuration modelling and system resource utilisation reporting functionality for Solaris Resource Manager software.
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