Driving Business Advantage Through Sun Server Technology
All forward looking companies know that the growing demands of the marketplace represent both a challenge and opportunity. Evolving industry structures, increased competition and more demanding customers are forcing companies to change and adapt in order to grow.
Organisations that want to thrive and grow in both local and global markets are significantly evolving their business models over the short-medium term. From entering new lines of business and building strategic partnerships to centralizing services, these decision-makers know innovation can be one of the most sustainable forms of competitive advantage.
To support this evolution in the near term, decision-makers are sharpening their focus on operational efficiency. A powerful information technology backbone is essential to achieving this efficiency. But most technology decision makers would concede that their core areas, such a server infrastructure, are not complete.
Therefore, forward-looking companies are considering strategic IT investments to drive this change and grow. Ultimately, success is about adapting your business model to address market shifts and customer needs; about complete and effective core operations; and about simultaneously building IT capabilities that can expand and change the business.
And making all this happen requires that you consider unique, flexible approaches and models.
Using IT to Innovate
Your IT environment needs the most powerful, efficient, and cost-effective servers available to keep your enterprise ahead of the pack. Seeing beyond the limits of traditional technology, Sun brings you a full line of servers, offering a range of processing options and operating systems, designed to keep you on top of your game now and in the future.
This Sun resource centre pulls together a wide range of incisive and insightful resources that show how Sun's servers are designed to solve problems...
- An expanded range of affordable, high-performance systems
- Your choice of OS-including Windows, Solaris, and Linux
- Windows- and VMware-certified Intel- and AMD-based systems
- Advanced security, speed, scalability, and eco-efficiency
- Complete solutions-from servers and storage to software and service
- The largest code contributions made to the open source community
Tremendous opportunity exists today. Any company with the right idea, partners and capabilities in place can expand to reach new customers-whether they're around the corner or across the globe.
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The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server consolidation.
As virtualisation is being used more and more to increase utilisation within production workloads, server vendors are responding with platforms, management technologies, and solutions that incorporate and leverage the underlying virtualisation technologies.
This whitepaper shows how Sun Microsystems is taking a three-step approach to bringing more business benefits of deploying virtualisation to enterprises that use x86 servers.
Download the White PaperCreating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter : Consolidate with Sun technology
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This in-depth report shows how by moving to high-performance, energy-efficient Sun servers and storage systems, IT organisation can take advantage of the latest advancements while saving on power and cooling.
Download the White PaperAccurately Measuring Datacenter Power Efficiency Timely and accurate measurements with SunSM Eco Services
Corporate attention spans can be short, and the best way to get attention and motivate efficiency improvements is to be able to generate accurate, up-to-date power statistics on a moment's notice.
Taking accurate measurements takes time, however, and a statistical model built from a set of baseline measurements provides a means of closely estimating efficiency improvements even while a datacenter is in a state of constant change.
This whitepaper discusses how Sun Eco Services can help you develop a statistical model for your datacenter, empowering you to generate timely and cost-effective datacenter power-efficiency measures.
Download the White PaperSun Achieves >80% reduction in space, power and cooling costs by Consolidating European Datacenters
This compelling case study looks at how, in November of 2005, Sun's IT Operations (ITOPS) group faced lease expirations that drove the consolidation of multiple European datacenters into a single state-of-the-art facility in their Guillemont Park, U.K campus.
This consolidation was in support of their strategy to reduce their mission critical datacenter real estate by utilizing Sun's own technology. The consolidation needed to be completed quickly and achieve reductions in space and electric power consumption without the migration of large numbers of applications to new operating system versions.
Fortunately, Sun's server technology and expertise in datacenter design and operations, and services like custom Consolidation Architecture and Design Services, allowed the consolidation to be completed in less than a year, with no down time, while producing reductions in space and utility costs far more dramatic than originally planned.
Download the White PaperIn a global economy it pays to protect your greatest asset
Datacenters are a drain on resources - yours and the planet's. After al, the average datacenter's power consumption doubled between 2000 and 2005. Powering the network consumes 100 billion kilowatts of electricity and costs around $7.2 billion every year.
And soon, the cost of running a server could be more that the cost of buying one. It adds up to a huge impact on the environment - and your bottom line.
But at Sun, we know that what's good for the planet can also be good for your business. This whitepaper shows how the Sun Eco Innovation Initiative can make sense for your business - economically and ecologically.
Download the White PaperQuad-Core Processors Bring Higher Performance and Lower Cost to Mainstream Computing
This in-depth study shows how Intel has created a market-leading processor family built on quad-core technology with a first-to-market advantage. Leading hardware and software vendors have expressed and exhibited full support. Early tests by a significant cross section of end users have proven the value and efficacy of the architecture. Intel has provided a foundation of software tools and industry training to accelerate industry readiness and adoption. Most server applications can already leverage the key quad-core attributes, and server virtualisation software with hardware assist makes application consolidation a key usage model.
The value proposition for Intel quad core processor based systems is clear. They outperform existing systems in all three major areas: compute performance, price performance, and performance per watt. As one of the HPC users commented, "Moving from dual core to quad core is a no-brainer." And the move from single core to quad core is even more compelling.
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