Sun Alliance

"Sun and CSC's relationship has spanned over 15 years of partnership and joint solution development. Together, CSC and Sun provide solutions that leverage Sun's market-leading technology and CSC's industry-leading services and expertise that enable our customers across the globe to: manage complexity, focus on their core business, collaborate with their partners and clients, and improve operations." Jesse Chavez, Vice President Global Partner Sales Organization Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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About Sun

A singular vision — "The Network Is The Computer" — guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing — the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

The CSC and Sun Alliance

For over 15 years, CSC and Sun have been committed to defining our joint presence in the worldwide marketplace. CSC brings valuable insight into the application of emerging technologies while Sun offers expertise and innovation in Solaris^TM and Java^TM software as well as the SPARC® and x64 platforms. Together, CSC and Sun provide complete offerings in outsourcing, systems integration and technology services to commercial and government customers.

CSC has achieved the highest ranking within the Sun Partner Advantage Program as an Elite Partner. With three Sun Competency Centers located in Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom and the United States, CSC and Sun provide customers access to the expertise, products, solutions and services they need to successfully plan, implement and maintain their company's business strategy.

Expanding the CSC and Sun Relationship

The CSC and Sun relationship has expanded beyond alliance partners; Sun is also a CSC client. Sun selected CSC to provide outsourcing services for the company's internal business applications. Sun transitioned the responsibility of application development and support of its internal services to CSC professionals, providing significant savings to the company.

Beyond this large outsourcing undertaking, CSC and Sun have also strengthened their partnership by developing a comprehensive go-to-market strategy that serves the marketplace on a number of different levels. For example, the two companies are exploring ways that Sun's secure server environment can help federal agencies, most notably in the sensitive area of intelligence. CSC and Sun are also leveraging knowledge gained on major enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives. In addition, Sun is exploring ways to leverage technology developed in CSC's Centers of Excellence and is working closely with CSC in areas such as storage, consolidation, transformation, identity and SOA.