Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) today announced the Sun Enterprise Migration Suite, a sequence of services designed to make it easier to move to the free and open Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and industry standard x64 server platforms.
The Sun Enterprise Migration Suite was designed to help avoid concerns among IT organizations about the potential risk, cost, or time involved in a complex migration. The Suite utilizes formal methodologies and tools that help make an enterprise's justification to migrate IT platforms more accurate, flexible and robust.
"Our migration services make it easier than ever for customers interested in moving away from proprietary operating systems, such as IBM AIX and HP-UX, to the most advanced operating system on the planet, Solaris 10," said Peter Weber, senior vice president of product management, Services, Sun Microsystems. "Sun has a proven track record of successful migrations earned over many years helping thousands of satisfied customers move from competitive IT infrastructures."
The Sun Enterprise Migration Suite enables IT leaders to address issues such as end-of-life platforms, unpredictable service levels, vendor instability and inflexible infrastructures. It helps them meet escalating regulatory demands, pursue new business models, service customers and stay competitive.
The Suite consists of the following services designed to provide success at every phase of a migration:
Sun Enterprise Migration Justification Review Service
Sun Enterprise Migration Architecture Service
Sun Enterprise Migration Implementation Service