At its Network Computing ’04Q4 launch, Sun Microsystems announced the Sun Service Optimized Data Center program, a new comprehensive roadmap of services and technologies to help customers deploy and manage IT services more cost-effectively.
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, integrated solutions marketing, 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, 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.
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