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I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, as the Acting Vice President and Managing Director of Sun Australia and New Zealand.
It is an exciting time to be with Sun ANZ. During the coming months, we will continue to focus on those things we know you value highly.
We will deliver excellent and consistent customer service, bring innovative technologies to the market and work with you to drive future growth.
The Australia and New Zealand operation has performed well. Going forward, we will continue to focus on innovations that help you save time and resources and enable you to get more out of your IT systems and services.
It is a constant challenge for businesses to deliver more with less. Not just more technology for less money, but more capacity with lower emissions, more storage with less space, and more services with less time.
A tight economy and stricter regulations around emissions targets are pushing businesses to review their IT operations in every capacity.
Sun focuses on innovations that deliver superior technology to our customers. But you shouldn't pay a premium for it.
Customers wanting to improve their data centre efficiency and reduce environmental impact can trust Sun to deliver cost-effective, highly efficient open source solutions such as OpenSolaris, GlassFish, MySQL and Open Storage.
The open platform of the future
OpenSolaris represents the open platform of the future.
Offering customers a wide array of options for customising the operating system, along with world record performance for a Web stack, OpenSolaris delivers the latest in innovation at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives.
Late last year, Sun announced the latest version of OpenSolaris. Not only do we see improved functionality in this version, but also increased energy efficiency, saving you both power and cost.
In addition to performance gains, this latest version makes it easier for companies to deploy OpenSolaris solutions within their data centres.
In the past six months, OpenSolaris has achieved several world-record benchmarks and top performance results. Displaying a particular advantage in Web 2.0 and enterprise markets, OpenSolaris is ideal for environments that need the most up-to-date mobile and Web application technology.
Since its official release in May last year, OpenSolaris, has been embraced by student and developer communities, as well as Sun customers and partners.
Community engagement has always been one of the most important ways Sun innovates in the marketplace. Combining the efforts of the broadest possible community with the support of a commercial supplier enables innovative technology to evolve.
The OpenSolaris community gives developers, systems admins, educators and new users the opportunity to collaborate with Sun and other community members on the future of ultra-secure operating systems.
With OpenSolaris, individuals and companies are able to contribute to its development and ensure it is the best operating system available.
Changing dynamics in the storage market
Building on the highly successful Solaris platform, Sun is changing the dynamics of the storage industry.
Currently a $40 billion dollar industry, storage is going through a shift similar to that of the server market in the mid-1990s.
Customer demand for state-of-the-art storage systems with open architectures and easy deployment is dramatically increasing.
Making use of flash storage technology, and open source software, Open Storage delivers not only great quality, but ease of use and lower costs. It’s also energy efficient, saving customers on cost, time and power.
Sun’s industry-leading Open Storage solutions can save up to 90 per cent compared with proprietary systems.
Given the nature of the financial markets, cost economics have never been so important and continue to be a vital part of the buying decision.
If you want more information on topics covered in this issue of Inner Circle, please contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Goodlace
Acting Vice President and Managing Director
Sun Microsystems Australasia Pty. Ltd.
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