Sun Microsystems has announced complete acquisition of Aduva, a provider of heterogeneous knowledge and analysis capabilities and technology which manages software update needs and also risk compliance in the enterprise.
Aduva's services would be available for individual customers behind their own firewalls, or as an automated Sun Grid Utility service. Sun will soon add update services to many Sun Grid Utility Services, which they currently offer, including its basic Compute Utility, Sun Grid Storage Utility and Sun Grid Developer Utility Services. Sun expects pricing and availability for the latest service feature of Sun Grid will be available within Sun's fiscal year 2007.
Stuart Wells, Executive VP, Utility Computing, Sun said, "The release of Sun Grid heralds a new beginning for the delivery of computing as a network service."
"Going forward, we would intend to expand the breadth and value of service portfolios, beyond the computation services we've initially rolled out, to the patch management and automated update service offerings Aduva now enables for all Sun hardware and software products. Aduva allows us to fully automate complex patch management for multiple operating systems, as a service feature of Sun Grid," added Wells.
By integrating Aduva technology, Sun would deliver active dependency patches and update services for Solaris and Linux servers with solutions that scale from individual servers, up to large scale data centers with tens of thousands of machines in complex networks.
