Sun Microsystems, a company which develops networking computing technologies, and Global Crossing, a communications solutions provider based in Bermuda, reportedly announced a strategic partnership to enable independent software vendors to commercialize high-yield service applications in the Andean, Caribbean and Central American regions.

 

The deal is part of the global Sun Solaris On Demand Program to assist ISVs in their evolution towards a software-as-a-service, or SaaS (News - Alert), distribution platform for their applications and products, officials said.

 

Under the partnership, Sun provides its servers based on UltraSPARC and AMD Opteron processors to Global Crossing's (News - Alert) Argentina data center. This data center is designed to enable ISVs to deliver applications and tools under subscription or SaaS models.

 

Global Crossing's data center provides services throughout Latin America. Leveraging this, ISVs can deliver services in these markets without investing on infrastructure or network operations, officials said.

 

The two companies also announced plans to further build on this partnership to cover their entire customer portfolio.

 

Gustavo Sorgente, general director of Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) for the ACC Regions, views this partnership essential in this critical time to provide an efficient cost-structure management.

 

“ISVs require solutions that allow them to develop and deliver the best software without investing their limited resources in infrastructure,” Sorgente said in a statement. “This agreement allows our customers to focus on the development of relevant solutions to their marketplaces without incurring high operating costs.”

 

Recently, Global Crossing announced a partnership with British IT infrastructure solutions provider BIS to provide redundant Ethernet services for BIS customers. For this, Global Crossing has installed aggregation Ethernet bearers into multiple BIS data centers.

 

Further, services will be delivered from the customer's premises, via resilient Global Crossing points of presence, into their Multi-Protocol Label Switching backbone, officials said.

 

The company also added IP telephony termination in the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland and Slovakia, helping enterprise and carrier customers reach a total of 25 countries worldwide and more than 500 cities across Europe, TMCnet reported.

 

In July, Global Crossing opened a data center in Amsterdam. With this, the company now has 17 data centers mainly focused on managed services.

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