"More Performance, Less Metal" workshop to increase application switching
price/performance by at least 50 percent
SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Continuing to make application data network infrastructures more secure and
efficient, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its "More
Performance, Less Metal" workshop. Customers who qualify for the program will
receive up to two days of free workshop services that employ Sun's Service
Delivery Network (SDN) architectural framework, a next generation data
services platform for scalable data centers, the Sun(TM) Secure Application
Switch -- N2000 Series, a high performance application switch that
consolidates load balancing and SSL encryption at multi-gigabit speeds, and
Sun Client Solutions analysis and consultation for re-architecting their
existing production data networking environments that utilize hardware-based
load balancing systems. This free workshop is designed to help qualified
customers not only increase secure application switching price-performance in
these deployments by at least 50 percent, but also to increase security and
service delivery, and decrease cost and complexity by reducing the number of
load balancers and application switches typically required by competitive
offerings. Please visit http://www.sun.com/n2000/workshop to get more details
and eligibility requirements for this program.
The "More Performance, Less Metal" workshop is a limited-time offer that
is available now through August 31, 2005.
More Performance, Less Metal Workshop
This workshop utilizes the SDN framework with the Sun Secure Application
Switch - N2000 Series. During the consultation, the Sun Client Solutions team,
an analysis and consultation group that demonstrates how customers can deploy
this data services platform for scalable data centers with high reliability,
will provide technical analysis to show how to optimize application
performance using servers, applications and data networking infrastructure.
They will demonstrate how Sun can help reduce cost and complexity of service
delivery via deployment of the SDN framework and the Secure Application Switch
-- N2000 Series at no charge to qualified customers.
The Sun Secure Application Switch -- N2000 Series easily integrates into
existing data network infrastructures and is designed to provide the following
benefits:
Increased performance of the entire data center architecture
SSL without comprising performance
Virtual switch functionality to enable new strategies for applications
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through resource consolidation
"As we continue to build secure, scalable, service-driven networks with
our Sun Secure Application Switch -- N2000 Series, we are helping customers
consolidate multi-tier applications into a single high-performance service
delivery platform, reducing their costs of deployment and operation," said
Josh Weiss, vice president, Network Systems Group at Sun Microsystems Inc.
"With this 'More Performance, Less Metal' workshop, customers can reduce
application switching infrastructure costs alone by up to ten times, in as
little as one to two days."
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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://sun.com.
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sun, Sun
Microsystems, the Sun logo, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other
countries.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Liza Santos
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(310) 943-6865
liza.santos@sun.com
Ashish Patel
Bite Communications for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(415) 365-0466
ashish.patel@bitepr.com
http://www.sun.com/news
Contact: allpress@sun.com
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CONTACT:
Liza Santos of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
+1-310-943-6865 or liza.santos@sun.com; Ashish Patel of Bite
Communications, +1-415-365-0466 or ashish.patel@bitepr.com, for
Sun Microsystems, Inc.; http://www.sun.com/news; or allpress@sun.com
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