Rightsizing the New Enterprise

by Harris Kern

Written by Sun MIS professionals with over 30 years of mainframe systems programming, data center management, and networking experience, this book documents how the authors successfully developed and implemented Sun's rightsizing strategy - providing the PROOF - not the hype. Shows how the authors implemented a 24x7 UNIX distributed Client/Server production infrastructure in their Mainframe Data Center environment to support distributed Mission Critical UNIX Business Applications, while continuing to manage their heterogeneous environment of HPs and Mainframes. Explores such topics as the network, the data center, transitioning people, production server room, productionalizing UNIX applications, production standards and procedures, service level agreements, system management tools, rightsizing tools/methodologies, cost benefit, disaster recovery, security, the problems endured, chargeback, high volume UNIX production printing.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[TK Keanini · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is more of a book about how Sun Microsystems went from Mainframe big iron to UNIX to run their back-office processes. I found it helpful at the time in putting together business cases for what at the time was called "Distributed Computing".

It would be interesting to see the next version of this book and how things have changed since the mid-90's at Sun. Rightsizing it going to be more about virtualization and Sun Containers than it is about "Distributed Computing".