Sun Microsystems, Inc has announced a comprehensive suite of products, programs and services that deliver on its N1 (Network One) vision for network computing.
N1, Sun's multi-platform, multi-vendor operating environment for network computing, virtualises widely distributed network computing resources and elements (servers, storage, software and networking) and enables them to dynamically operate as a single, powerful network computer.
Sun's N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition is the industry's first blade virtualisation solution and can reduce deployment time from weeks to hours.
"We are rapidly delivering the benefits of our N1 vision and strategy in the form of new products and services," says Stefano Mattiello, MD of Sun Microsystems sub-Saharan Africa.
"With N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition we're helping customers simplify the management of their existing data centres and drastically reduce costs. With N1 technology, customers have the choice to engineer away the cost and complexity in their current data centres instead of facing the high price tag of replacing infrastructure or outsourcing it," he adds.
N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition software is Sun's first N1 product and is expected to be available worldwide by the second quarter of 2003. The N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition reduces deployment time for customers from weeks to as little as hours.
"The N1 Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition is the first blade virtualisation solution in the industry," says Mattiello. He explains that it can reprovision blades from one server farm to another, add new blades, shelves and even racks into the data centre environment, and bring new blades online to replace failed blades from its unique graphical user interface. Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows operating environments are all supported by Sun's N1 Provisioning Server technology.
In addition, Sun is announcing N1 Data Services for storage virtualisation. Sun is currently virtualising storage resources in pilot customer data centres including a large international pharmaceutical company. Sun will continue to expand the availability of its N1 Data Services offerings throughout 2003, once the pilot phase is complete.
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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc (Nasdaq: SUNW) 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://www.sun.com.
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