IT
Scan
February
21, 2003
Sun launches new initiative for enterprises
BANGALORE -- Sun Microsystems has announced that its
SunTone initiative has expanded its scope to deliver
a new SunTone service delivery specification, consulting
services, reference architectures and certification
to enterprises. The main objective being its desire
to meet enterprises’ increasing requirements
to deliver high quality data center services to employees,
customers and partners. It further announced that
Hershey Foods Corporation and Siemens Business Services
are among the first companies to achieve SunTone certification
for their data center services.
SunTone
initiative provides best practices and processes designed
to enable enterprise IT environments to architect,
implement and manage higher quality networked services
by improving the competency, efficiency and effectiveness
of operations, staffing and service management. SunTone
can help customers reduce total cost of ownership,
reduce complexity and drive data center management
efficiencies.
The
new SunTone service delivery specification 2.0 provides
industry-developed best practices, processes and procedures
for deploying and managing higher quality end-to-end
service delivery -- from the network to the infrastructure,
to the application service delivery.
The
new specification goes beyond the operational management
to include processes and methodologies to assess and
validate service delivery architecture and implementation.
It also provides enhanced security management methodologies.
SunTone
initiative helps IT departments -- whether they are
leveraging in-house expertise or outsourcing -- to
improve data center management efficiencies, provide
more reliable and secure networked services, and reduce
cost through streamlined operations.
