Two New Milestones Announced in Sun/Microsoft Ongoing Alliance
Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center
The Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center has officially opened. The Center’s primary focus is on optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage. Other objectives are to promote full interoperability in application areas such as virtualization, Java technology, systems management, and identity, and support customers in running their own proofs-of-concept testing.
The Center is expected to serve as a working lab for tuning, benchmarking and creating interoperable solutions. Located on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the Center will house a demonstration and testing area for Windows on Sun x64 systems and storage, and a lab space for customer proofs-of-concept focused on Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 systems and storage. It also will allow for:
- The certification of Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), including Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) software for and with Microsoft operating environments and applications;
- Joint work to help enable cross-platform server virtualization, including Windows Hyper-V and Sun xVM software;
- Cross-company collaboration to allow Sun Ray thin client software to provide a first-rate virtual desktop for the Windows environment and supports Windows technologies.
Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Along with the Center announcement, Sun and Microsoft have released the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which is designed to help enterprise customers to better manage e-mail growth and realize the benefits of Exchange Server 2007. Pre-tested end-to-end system and storage configurations allow customers to easily migrate to Exchange Server 2007 - achieving up to 85 percent in rack space, power and cooling savings and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) for e-mail by up to 70 percent over three years, the companies report.
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