Sun Offers a Workshop to Optimize Secure Service Delivery

Continuing to make application data network infrastructures more secure and efficient, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) 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 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.

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.

"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.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.