CFOs have shifted their focus from simply providing services to aligning IT strategy with business needs — while cutting costs and maintaining security. Will the Solaris 10 OS provide the necessary paradigm shift in efficiencies?
IT organizations want to be more responsive and efficient. They can no longer afford a data center model that requires dedicated servers to address specific applications, testing, development, staging, training, and production.
Historical investments of this nature have led to server sprawl and utilization rates that frequently fall below 15 percent. Since no two organizations have the same type of workload (and workloads shift dynamically) or use system resources in the same way, the problem of provisioning resources on a shared system can be tricky.
Server consolidation should obviously reduce total capital investment costs, lower system management expenses, and decrease software and hardware maintenance fees by minimizing the total number of systems required. Unfortunately, these efficiencies haven't been fully realized due to a gap between conceptualization and actualization.
Sun's vision is that technology can be used to deliver business services through a single pool of resources — simultaneously decreasing the costs associated with server footprint and increasing utilization rates.
Historical investments of this nature have led to server sprawl and utilization rates that frequently fall below 15 percent. Since no two organizations have the same type of workload (and workloads shift dynamically) or use system resources in the same way, the problem of provisioning resources on a shared system can be tricky.
Server consolidation should obviously reduce total capital investment costs, lower system management expenses, and decrease software and hardware maintenance fees by minimizing the total number of systems required. Unfortunately, these efficiencies haven't been fully realized due to a gap between conceptualization and actualization.
Sun's vision is that technology can be used to deliver business services through a single pool of resources — simultaneously decreasing the costs associated with server footprint and increasing utilization rates.
Creating and managing this pool of resources requires server virtualization, a concept that allows servers and the network to be flexibly portioned into independent, completely dynamic execution environments within the same server and physical network. The recently announced Solaris 10 Operating Environment takes resource sharing to levels previously not available within the industry — narrowing the aforementioned gap between conception and utilization.
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