Companies announce availability of Sun Infrastructure Solution for
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash., March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced two new
milestones in their ongoing alliance: the official opening of the
Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft's Redmond campus for
optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun Fire(TM) x64 server systems
storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. More information on the Sun Infrastructure
Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available at
http://www.sun.com/exchange and
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb412164.aspx.
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"Our customers and partners want to maximize their business efficiency,
and we are helping them do that by opening the new Sun/Microsoft
Interoperability Center," said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of
infrastructure server marketing at Microsoft. "The center will provide a
setting for hands-on testing and tuning of Sun/Microsoft solutions, and
will help our joint customers achieve outstanding performance results for
their standardized and homegrown solutions. It is consistent with our
recently announced interoperability principles, which guide steps that we
are taking to enhance interoperability in the marketplace for the benefit
of customers."
"The new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will help provide our
joint customers with a testbed for running key Microsoft applications on
Sun's x64 servers and help ensure more seamless integration between the
technologies," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of Systems Marketing, Sun
Microsystems. "Additionally, with the new Infrastructure Solution for
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Sun's expertise in x64 servers, storage and
64-bit database architectures will enable customers to significantly reduce
e-mail TCO and ease the transition to the new 64-bit product."
Objectives of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will include
optimization of Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage, and
promotion of full interoperability in application areas such as
virtualization, Java(TM) technology, systems management and identity. In
addition, the center will collaborate with authorized Sun Solution Centers
to support customers in running their own proof-of-concept testing.
Customers can minimize their risk and shorten time to deployment by
simulating their own environment, with access to top architects from both
Sun and Microsoft.
The Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center serves as a working lab for
tuning, benchmarking and interoperability solutions creation. It will be
designed to include the following:
-- A demonstration and testing area for Windows on Sun x64 systems and
storage
-- A lab space for customer proofs-of-concept focused on Windows Server
2008 on Sun x64 systems and storage
-- The ability to certify Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and
Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), including Sun's Java Runtime
Environment (JRE(TM)) software for and with Microsoft operating
environments and applications
-- Joint work to help enable cross-platform server virtualization,
including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Sun xVM
-- Cross-company collaboration to allow Sun Ray thin client software to
provide a first-rate virtual desktop for the Windows environment and
support Windows technologies
One of the first results of the recently increased collaboration is the
availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007. This solution will help enable enterprise customers to better
manage e-mail growth and realize the benefits of Exchange Server 2007.
Pre-tested end-to-date system and storage configurations allow customers to
easily migrate to Exchange Server 2007 -- achieving up to 85 percent
savings in rack space, power and cooling, and reducing total cost of
ownership (TCO) for e-mail by up to 70 percent over three years.
The Interoperability Center expands Sun's three-year presence on the
Microsoft main campus, focused on testing customer scenarios on Sun's
systems in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center. Microsoft and Sun
have collaborated in a number of interoperability areas including Web
services, identity management, thin clients, systems management and Windows
Server engineering.
The two companies have also created a basis for tighter
interoperability between Java(TM) Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE),
the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation in
Sun's Web services interoperability technologies (Project Tango).
Corporations can also evaluate the Sun Fire X4600 server with Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 through Sun's Try and Buy program:
http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/specialdetail.jsp?spid=f17eb968-
ce40-48c5-9f63-5deb8e339216 [to view this website please highlight and copy
the URL, and paste it into your address bar]. Sun became a Windows Server
OEM in September 2007 and is also a founding member of the Microsoft
Interop Vendor Alliance and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- guides Sun
(Nasdaq: JAVA) in the development of technologies that power the world's
most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building
communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the
Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
Web at sun.com.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
Microsoft, Windows Server and Windows are either registered trademarks
or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other
countries.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, Sun Ray and The
Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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