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The Sun Service Optimized Data Center (SODC) Program

Overview Acknowledging the many issues that face IT organizations, the Sun Service Optimized Data Center (SODC) program not only recognizes the inevitability of the heterogeneous data center, but also helps to optimize the resulting infrastructure. Sun's view of service optimization goes well beyond consolidation, recognizing that efficient use of resources increases system utilization, lowers total cost of ownership (TCO), and improves profitability. This broad approach encompasses centralization, physical consolidation, data integration, application integration, and storage consolidation.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	161
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Data Center, Infrastructure Management

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