Sun opens Asia South's first authorised Sun Solution Centre
ConvergenceAsia staff
18/04/2008

Sun Microsystems has officially opened its first authorised Sun Solution Centre in Asia South. Located in Ingram Micro Asia, Singapore, this new facility functions as an extended arm of its Sun Solution Centre and is targeted to cater to the needs of companies, especially SMBs, for product demonstrations and for building proofs-of-concept. This facility is also open to both system integrators and corporate end-users.

"We believe in the power of the community to solve challenging problems, by working with Ingram Micro to deliver technology as a competitive differentiator, the authorised Sun Solution Centre brings together state-of-the-art technology and expertise in simulated environments where our clients and partners can envision, build, and test innovative business solutions," said Ong Chee Beng, Managing Director, Singapore.

This centre offers customers resources to help them effectively make purchasing and implementation decisions, and improve total cost of ownership. It also features a rich array of products, programmes, solutions, and partners to deliver targeted customer-driven horizontal and vertical solutions to help improve business processes.

In addition, customers and partners can expect access to Sun technologies like the Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Fire servers, as well as core competencies such as competitive analysis and best practices.

The centre also offers collaborative workshops, solution architectures, proof-of-concepts and prototyping, blueprints, system architectures, performance testing, and benchmarking, among other customer-oriented aids.

Sun's partnership with Ingram Micro for this facility enables customer and partners including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and SIs to have 360 degree views of their IT projects - from planning to testing to deploying. The centre has a real-world environment that customers can leverage to quickly and securely solve integration challenges and promote interoperability across multi-vendor solutions. It also provides customer focused assistance with the entire solution implementation process, from brainstorming to developing pilot programmes.

Ong added, "Sun is confident that by working with Ingram Micro, it can extend its presence into the SMB market in Singapore, which is expected to invest US$3 billion this year to strengthen their information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, up 6 per cent over last year’s level."

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