Sun

Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. The core brands include the Java technology platform, Solaris operating system, the MySQL database management system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

Key Benefits:

  • Mission-critical computing based computing built on UltraSPARC, CoolThreads, AMD and Intel technology in a variety of formats
  • Solaris OS and OpenSolaris OS — The free and open Solaris OS is a proven, industry leading operating system with features designed to save your business time and money.
  • StorageTek Sun’s system approach to storage brings value, access, simplicity and trust to all of your data.
  • MySQL The world's most popular open source database because of its fast performance, high reliability, ease of use, and dramatic cost savings.
  • OpenStorage — built on industry-standard hardware and a comprehensive suite of storage software, Sun has broken the final barriers to building state-of-the-art storage systems with truly open architectures.

Resources

    Offers

    Get a Sun Storage 7000 System for a FREE 60 Day Trial — The world’s first open storage appliance radically simplify how you manage storage with breakthrough speed, scale, and up to 75% cost savings.
    http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/index.jsp

    Test Drive Eco Innovation Accelerate performance while using less power and cooling. Download the Sun Storage Unified Simulator to take a test drive.
    http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp

    White Papers

    Open Storage Adoption - Based on industry-leading server and operating system technology, Sun opens the closed world of storage systems to innovation and market choice.
    http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=60

    InfiniBand - From Supercomputing to the Enterprise - Learn to optimize your HPC clustering environments using open technologies to scale and consolidate transparently with Infiniband technology, yielding lower latency and higher throughput.
    http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=58

    Unified Storage Systems Architecture - The world's first open storage appliances, these systems are a radically simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems.
    http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=51

    Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems - Learn how the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System combines Flash technology with Solaris ZFS to create solutions that balance low cost and high performance.
    http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=50

    Lustre File System - Get basic information about the Lustre file system, markets in which the Lustre file system is strong, standard Lustre file system configurations, overview of Lustre networking (LNET) and more in this whitepaper.
    http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=59

Why Scalar is your best option for Sun

Scalar Decisions has sold over 600M of Sun technology since 1991, we believe making us Sun’s longest and largest overall partner. Most recently our efforts were rewarded with Sun announcing us as their FY08 Partner of the Year. Our Sun investments in people, certification and training mean we carry their highest partner status — executive — across all their key product categories (server, storage, software and services). Understanding the technology to this extent means we can help maximize the investment, deliver superior results and integrate their technology into a heterogeneous world.