Sun rises on storage element to utility computing strategy
Sun rises on storage element to utility computing strategy
Feb 3, 2005: The latest element of Sun's multi-faceted utility computing strategy has been introduced, offering users pay-as-you-go storage.
Following closely in the slipstream of the Sun Grid compute utility, a US$1 per CPU per hour pay-per-use offering ($1/cpu-hr), is the Sun Grid storage utility, a US$1 per gigabyte per month offering ($1/GB-mo). In the coming months, Sun will also roll out additional Sun Grid offerings for the desktop and developer communities.
The Sun Grid offerings are designed to give customers and partners more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT.
Sun has already secured a number of major customers for the utility offerings, particularly in the financial services and oil and gas industries.
"There's an industry misunderstanding at the moment – it's not computers that are commoditising, it's computing. What do all commodities have in common? Transparent pricing that can be compared against each other," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun. "Sun is 'lighting up the grid' and unleashing the computing power of the network for the transparent price of a dollar. We encourage all CIOs and CFOs to look into their data centre's and ask themselves if they are spending more than $1/cpu-hr, including electricity, HV-AC and labour. We're certain Sun can reduce costs by an order of magnitude, allowing customers to allocate resources toward activities delivering competitive advantage."
Sun is in the process of rolling out Sun Grid Centre's around the world, with all centre's expected to be fully operational by the end of the year. The availability date and cost of the service in Australia has yet to be disclosed.
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