Today, at a Sun Microsystems and STS Convention, a new Storage product line was revealed with capabilities far exceeding any others offered on the global market. This product line promises long life, no downtime, speed, robustness, durability, availability and non-disruptive performance.
Amman, February 12- Sun Microsystems delivered, at a convention prepared in cooperation with STS its Partner in Jordan, the answer for the increasing market demand for a solution that provides business continuity and around-the-clock instantaneous data access. The convention hosted many of SUN Microsystems' customers including market heavyweights in a wide range of sectors; Telecommunications, Banking, Education, and Service Providers. The convention revealed the launching of Sun/Hitachi's "Sun StorEdgeTM 9900" series, and familiarized the audience with Sun's entire storage product line.
"The Sun StorEdge 9900TM series provides best-of-class storage systems for high-end enterprise environments and features a newer switched architecture that is superior to the old bus / hub architectures used by other vendors" said Mark Fryer, Storage Sales Manager, Sun Microsystems, MEA region.
"The Sun StorEdge 9900 TM series brings data center heterogeneity, mainframe connectivity, storage consolidation and extreme availability to Sun's large high-end enterprise and glass house customers who prefer a storage-centric (big box) " added Fryer.
This announcement is another proof point of the advantages that Sun's customers achieve by selecting its introduced storage product line that scales to accommodate increasing business demands, and provides solutions which resolve the issues of downtime in the IT domain through disaster recovery planning and measures.
Empowered with its Storage product line and backed up with the reliability and robustness of the "Solaris Operating Environment", Sun Microsystems offers organizations the possibility for adopting a more centralized approach to storage and continuous operation management. Thus, providing them with a better control of bandwidth allocation, sharable storage, lower management costs, and better resolution of performance bottlenecks.
"Our long relation and our belief in its Technology leadership in the IT industry makes us very proud today to announce jointly with Sun Microsystems the new Sun StorEdgeTM 9900 Series to the advanced IT market in Jordan" said Humam Mufti - STS General Manager. "Sun has really outperformed itself this time with a storage product line that provides host-less data transfer, data exchange, data replication, and disaster recovery functionality," added Mr. Mufti".
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About Sun Microsystems:
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - "The Network is the Computer[TM]" - has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their business to the nth. With $19.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com
About STS:
STS is a progressive company that has been successfully delivering the highest quality information technology solutions since 1989. Today, manned with more than 120 employees, STS Group comprises of four companies, all adhering to the original standards of quality and service created and strongly held fast to by STS.
Besides being the sole Distributor and Enterprise Accredit Partner for Sun Microsystems offering the latest in Sun technologies, STS group embraces the following four sister companies: 1) Business Technology Solution / BTech. 2) BUSINESSONE. 3) CompuNet. 4) Integrated Publishing Systems / IPS.
STS group (www.sts.com.jo) is based in Amman- Jordan with a branch office in Ramallah-Palestine and BUSINESSONE'S (www.b1me.com) Headquarters in Dubai Internet City- UAE. STS is staffed by more than 110 IT & business professionals, with the expertise to meet the business objectives of large corporations, banks, Telcos and government Institutions.
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