ZEFER AND SUN MICROSYSTEMS INTRODUCE FIRST AUTHORIZED iFORCEsm READY CENTER IN NEW ENGLAND
ZEFER Corp., a consulting and implementation services firm, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the first Authorized Sun iForcesm Ready Center in New England. Hosted at ZEFER's newly expanded headquarters in Boston, Mass., the Center provides ZEFER and its clients with an environment to leverage Sunä technology and ZEFER's e-business expertise to conduct proof-of-concept solutions.
(PRWEB) May 16, 2001
Boston, Mass., and Menlo Park, Calif., - May 14, 2001 - ZEFER Corp., a consulting and implementation services firm, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the first Authorized Sun iForcesm Ready Center in New England. Hosted at ZEFER's newly expanded headquarters in Boston, Mass., the Center provides ZEFER and its clients with an environment to leverage Sunä technology and ZEFER's e-business expertise to conduct proof-of-concept solutions.
Authorized iForce Ready Centers are partner-run iForce Centers, which provide organizations with an environment to test and prove a scalable blend of software, hardware, networking prior to implementation. Through its proof-of-concept and architectural design capabilities, the Centers helps enable organizations to reduce solution development time, lower costs and ensure a faster time-to-market.
SunÂ’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, Scott McNealy was recently in Boston and commemorated the opening of this new Authorized iForce Ready Center with ZEFER Chairman and CEO, Bill Seibel. (see photo).
Authorized iForce Ready Centers are part of the foundation of Sun Microsystems' iForce initiative, a far-reaching program that brings together under one umbrella all of Sun's systems, software, services and best-in-class partner solutions to create and deliver customer-driven solutions that enable enterprises to leverage the network to improve business processes.
ZEFER's Authorized iForce Ready Center provides a multi-vendor solutions environment to help accelerate the deployment of e-business solutions.
Solutions coming out of the ZEFER Authorized iForce Center will be targeted toward a range of industries such as financial services, media, telecommunications, high tech and healthcare. ZEFER will also use the Authorized iForce Ready Center to showcase a variety of its solutions around Internet security, eProcurement, supply chain, content management, wireless and other technology solutions.
"ZEFER's new Authorized iForce Ready Center provides an excellent environment for enterprises to leverage the Sunä platform and ZEFER's business, technology and implementation expertise to capitalize on the Net Effect," said David Gee, vice president, Global iForce Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The collective power of ZEFER's expertise and Sun's technology provides an optimal environment to test some of the latest technologies in action and brainstorm their options for maximizing technology infrastructure."
The Center is equipped with a cluster of Sun servers and storage systems running the Solarisä Operating Environment to demonstrate high-availability, high performance capabilities. The Center also offers networking technology, Oracle database solutions and industry standard software, including the full iPlanetä suite of products and technologies, as well as non Sun platforms to demonstrate the ease of interoperability.
"ZEFER's new partner-run Center provides a tremendous opportunity to create solutions that help provide sustainable business advantage, reduce risk and maximize technology investments," said Bill Seibel, chairman and CEO, ZEFER. "This Authorized iForce Ready Center is another example of how the Sun and ZEFER relationship is delivering value to both Sun and ZEFER clients alike."
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computerä " -- 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 businesses 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://sun. com (http://sun. com).
About ZEFER
ZEFER provides consulting and implementation services that enable companies to harness the power of technology to increase revenue, reduce costs and enhance customer loyalty. With a dedicated focus on customer value and operational efficiency, ZEFER’s integrated team of business consultants, technologists, experience designers and program managers help Global 2000 organizations enhance customer relationships and build cost-effective, collaborative business processes. ZEFER creates and implements both large-scale, comprehensive solutions and rapidly deployable applications and strategies. These “cornerstone value solutions” and “rapid value solutions” provide early value and sustainable business results for our clients. ZEFER’s clients include Citigroup Inc., Citizens Bank, Ferguson Enterprises, H. J. Heinz Company, iPlanet, Siemens and other Global 2000 organizations. The Company has offices located in Boston, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
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