Sun Unveils New Services, Plan For Integrated Solutions

The new services offerings are Sun Install Check for Volume Systems, which helps deliver Sun's forthcoming N1 network management system to customers; Sun Software Support Service Program, which gives customers choice in obtaining support for Sun software; Quick Start Service for Network Identity, which demonstrates Sun's network identity products and solutions; and High-Performance eLearning Program, a new educational offering for organizations.

The new strategy--called the Intellectual Property Life Cycle--integrates Sun's services with its partners and infrastructure products to create solutions for solving and preventing problems within enterprises, according to Pat Sueltz, Sun's executive vice president of Sun Services.

"Sun is mobilizing its collective intellectual property and working with its iForce partners to create pre-emptive, best-in-class solutions that offer customers choice and control," Sueltz said in a statement.

The strategy also aims to capitalize on intellectual property already present in a customer's system, which will lower customer costs, she said.

The Sun Install Check for Volume Systems is available for free download for all SunFire 280R, V480 and V880 systems at http://sunsolve.sun.com. Sun is expected to further outline its N1 strategy at a Dec. 9 event in San Francisco.

More information about the other new services can be found at the following Web sites: www.sun.com/service/support/; www.sun.com/service/sunps/ni; and www.sun.com/training.