SUN LAUNCHES NETWORK BUSINESS ADVANTAGE PROGRAM FOR CORPORATE MARKET; Also Announces High Availability Systems, Support.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 1995--More than 400 CIOs and other information technology executives crowded the Sheraton Hotel & Towers today to hear Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Computer Company (SMCC SMCC - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. ) unveil its Network Business Advantage(TM) program, which provides corporate customers an easy, fast and safe means of leveraging network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. . During the event, Sun also announced a comprehensive set of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. products and services to support these and other mission-critical business computing solutions. (See separate releases for detail). The Network Business Advantage program consists of computing solutions in three areas critical to business customers: data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , customer management and business/financial applications. Sun has leveraged its highly-scalable systems and software, and its close alliance with industry-leading ISVs and system integrators, to produce finely-tuned, industry-specific network computing solutions. To ensure success, Sun has invested in a worldwide team of field solution experts and in competency centers where Sun and its partners complete joint tuning and testing of each Network Business Advantage solution. The company has also ramped up its worldwide SunService field organization to provide the mission-critical level of support needed for its business computing customers. New from Sun: Decision Warehouse, BusinessWare, Customer Management Solutions Sun's new Decision Warehouse(TM) program allows businesses to build warehouses of information to improve decision making. Sun's program features data extraction, data management and analysis tools and the industry's most scalable servers and solutions built through partnerships with leading ISVs such as Informix, Oracle, Information Builders, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. and Sybase, and top system integrators like Price Waterhouse and SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) Systemhouse. Also new is Sun's BusinessWare(TM) program, which ensures tuned and optimized applications from SAP, Dun & Bradstreet, PeopleSoft and other ISVs. It targets customers who need to move custom business applications like manufacturing resource planning Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) is defined by APICS as a method for the effective planning of all resources of a manufacturing company. Ideally, it addresses operational planning in units, financial planning in dollars, and has a simulation capability to answer , human resources and accounting to a flexible, network computing environment. The third component of the Network Business Advantage program is an enhanced Customer Management Solutions(TM) offering, which was introduced last year and has resulted in significant business for Sun. The Customer Management Solutions program combines unique computer and telephony technologies to give sales and customer service agents timely, customer-specific information integrated from a wide range of sources. Sun ensures the quality of its Network Business Advantage solutions at Competency Centers in various locations worldwide, where Sun and its partners share their expertise with customers, and provide services such as benchmarking, configuration testing and showcasing specific solutions. Field experts are also on hand worldwide to assist customers in defining, implementing and supporting applications and solution suites. Sun is tailoring its Network Business Advantage programs to address specific industry needs and will focus on the financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing markets, where the company already commands impressive marketshare. "We're targeting companies that recognize the clear competitive advantage of network- computing and want to get there in the most effective way," said Ed Zander zan·der n. pl. zander or zan·ders A common European pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca) valued as a food fish. [German, from Low German Sander , president of SMCC. "Sun's approach ensures solutions that are comprehensive, well-tested and performance-optimized for a networked environment. We make it easy, fast and safe to get the most from network computing." New Network Computing Products, Services Continuous access to data is a requirement for many businesses that rely on computer technology to ensure competitive advantage. Sun's new SPARCcluster(TM) HA server and Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). (TM) software offer a well-integrated, high availability solution for network computing and includes specific fault management programs for the industry's most popular data services - NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System and RDBMSs from Informix, Oracle and Sybase. The SPARCcluster HA Server builds on Sun's recently-announced, SPARCcluster(TM) PDB(TM) Server - Sun's clustered computing platform for parallel database products like Oracle Parallel Server A version of the Oracle database system designed for massively parallel processors (MPPs). It allows multiple CPUs to access a single database. (database) Oracle Parallel Server . The SunService division of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced the bundling of full high availability support with both the SPARCcluster PDB and HA Systems. The suite of services includes installation, configuration, and product testing, plus a partnership with Oracle Corporation for interoperability support of the Oracle Parallel Server and system software. SunService also announced enhancements to Sun(TM) Help Desk System Implementation Service(SM) that will allow customers to streamline their help desk operations and improve productivity. Due to Sun's highly scalable server architecture, Sun offers the industry's lowest-cost entry point for these solutions and a seamless, incremental growth path. Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of network computing systems and is a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Recognized for quality and innovation, the company's SPARCstation desktops and multiprocessing SPARCserver systems each hold the No. 1 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). marketshare position. These systems are used primarily by businesses, educational institutions and governments worldwide for technical, commercial, industrial, and software development applications. -0- Note: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, Network Business Advantage, Decision Warehouse, BusinessWare, Customer Management Solutions, Sun Help Desk System Implementation Service, PDB, Solstice and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks, including the SCD ScD [L.] Scien´tiae Doc´tor (Doctor of Science). SCD 1 Sickle cell disease, see there 2 Subacute combined degeneration, see there 3 Sudden cardiac death, see there compliant logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. All other products are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems Computer Company Susan Hathaway, 415/786-8110 |
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