Sun Launches Sun Grid Readiness Offer

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) announced the Sun Grid Readiness Offer, a comprehensive new partner offering that gives ISVs quick access to the resources they need to help build solutions based on grid computing technologies from Sun.

This offering allows ISVs to build innovative new Grid business models, drive sales opportunities, and deliver solutions using Sun's grid technology.

Sun's grid computing products and technologies included in the program are Sun Grid, the Sun N1 software products and the Sun Grid Rack Systems, which integrate the new family of industry-standard Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered with the AMD Opteron processor and pre-loaded with the Solaris 10 Operating System.

The Sun Grid Readiness Offer is part of the Sun Partner Advantage Program, which gives ISVs quick access to the resources needed to build solutions based on Sun technologies.

Sun also unveiled the new Sun Grid Developer Community, which provides developers with a framework and community in which to "play" on the Sun Grid in order to develop and implement commercially available applications for the Sun Grid.

"As one of the fastest growing areas of technology, our partners want to engage with Sun to offer grid-based solutions on Sun technology," said Stephen Borcich, vice president of partner marketing at Sun.

The Sun Grid Readiness Offer provides a four-step process so that ISVs can offer grid computing solutions to a variety of industries. Some of the program benefits include using Sun's grid infrastructure to access tools, software, servers and storage.

"Server-grid functionality is integral to Informatica's enterprise data integration solution, helping customers leverage existing hardware-server assets to increase IT responsiveness and enhance data integration performance and cost-effectiveness," said Girish Pancha, executive vice president, products at Informatica.