Sun's services arm has launched a range of services and
technologies aimed at helping users to deploy and manage IT
systems.
The Service Optimised Datacentre programme will offer services
for automating datacentres based on service-oriented architectures.
The services will use Solaris 10 and Sun's N1 Grid
technologies.
Sun will back this up with its Operations Management Capability
Model - a set of best practices based on principles from the
Information Technology Infrastructure Library and the Controls
Objective for Information and Related Technology.
The company said it would also set up a team of specialists that
could act as a programme management office for Sun partners to
deliver services to optimise users' datacentres.
Sun business partner and global outsourcing supplier EDS plans
to deploy the programme through its outsourcing service.
EDS said it had used elements of the programme, such as Sun's
architecture and server consolidation methodologies, to revise and
rationalise an SAP implementation.
Larry Lozon, vice-president for EDS Hosting Services, said, "We
were able to reduce our client's datacentre complexity, simplify
systems management and administration tasks, and reduce overall
maintenance costs by more than 40% and support costs by more than
30%."