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New Data Center Solutions Enhance Mainframe-Like Capabilities Of Sun Microsystems' Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 Server Advanced Workload Balancing and Connectivity Capabilities Extend the Reach Of Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 Server Into the Traditional Data Center PALO ALTO, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced new workload-balancing and mainframe connectivity features that make it easier for data center customers to maximize the flexibility of their Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 servers, as well as ease the integration of their Sun Enterprise 10000 servers into legacy data centers. These solutions enhance Sun's Dynamic System Domains and are the first example of workload management capabilities being integrated with industry leading systems management software. Sun has worked with BMC Software to integrate Sun's automated Dynamic Systems Domains with BMC Software's PATROL® to produce a new solution for Workload-based Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (LADR). BMC Software developed its PATROL® for Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) solution specifically for Sun to monitor system performance and proactively manage the domains of the Sun Enterprise 10000 server, also known as Starfire(TM) server. PATROL for Sun ADR provides Sun's Starfire server customers with truly automatic, capacity-based workload management of their server domains. With ``on the fly'' load balancing, workloads are monitored within domains and CPUs are automatically dynamically reconfigured (DR) between domains in response to workload changes. Using PATROL for Sun ADR, customers can dramatically lower their total cost of ownership and increase utilization on a Starfire server. In combination with Sun's Starfire server and the ``TurboDR'' system board, which provides near instantaneous CPU resources to the target domain and greatly reduces DR time, PATROL for Sun ADR automatically and quickly balances system resources between multiple system domains to optimize overall system capacity utilization. Sun's Starfire server's Dynamic System Domains feature mainframe-like partitioning capabilities, allowing a single Starfire server to be logically divided into multiple systems or stand-alone servers. Capacity-based dynamic Workload-based dynamic reconfiguration allows data center managers to create, resize or delete partitions on the fly, without rebooting or even being present. This reconfiguration capability helps to enable effective and flexible management of a site's resources for optimal utilization. ``Sun is doing an excellent job of delivering highly competitive enterprise servers that are able to meet the ever-changing needs of data centers,'' said Carl Coken, vice president and general manager, PATROL platform solutions, BMC Software. ``The proactive and automated management capabilities available through BMC's PATROL solutionare crucial to ensuring the availability of customers' mission-critical applications.'' In addition to this leading-edge work, Sun offers other capabilities that enhance the manageability of the Starfire server. Sun's Capacity On Demand (COD) on Sun Enterprise Servers allows customers to maximize the financial benefits of the systems. With Sun's COD servers, a customer can acquire and install additional headroom processors in their Sun Enterprise Servers, which they can activate and pay for when dynamically added to the system. Thus, the COD processors become part of the resource pool that can be made available to the system to address unpredictable demands on the system resources, but are not paid for until they are needed. Extending the power of PATROL for Sun ADR is Solaris Resource Manager(TM) (SRM). SRM manages the allocation of CPU and other critical system resources between multiple applications running within the same Solaris(TM) Operating Environment domain. SRM complements PATROL for Sun ADR by helping to ensure that additional CPU resources added to a domain by PATROL are automatically applied to the designated applications in the domain in relation to their stated business importance. With SRM and PATROL for Sun ADR, customers can take advantage of a fully-automated resource management solution that not only moves resources between domains, but also dynamically adjusts resources within domains for a fine-level of control over hardware productivity. Also available today is the Sun Enterprise Systems Interface 1.0, a high speed PCI-based interface to connect Sun Enterprise servers to mainframe ESCON channels. The Sun Enterprise Systems Interface runs in both TCP/IP and tape emulation mode for seamless interoperability with mainframe hosts in an ESCON environment. ``Today's announcement illustrates Sun's commitment to deliver complete solutions that provide the level of uptime, scalability, performance and reliability required by today's data center environments,'' said Steve Campbell, director of marketing for Enterprise Systems Products, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ``The momentum of Sun's high-end servers running critical applications once dominated by legacy systems shows we have a tremendous opportunity to extend the traditional data center.'' About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network is the Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $17.6 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com . NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Sun Enterprise, Starfire, Solaris Resource Manager, HotJava and ``The Network is the Computer'' are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator(TM) or Sun's HotJava(TM) browser. Type sun.com at the URL prompt. 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