You know, I believe that many Linux companies out there could actually generate a new revenue stream for themselves if they would simply follow this same sort of path. You know, one that has to do with data centers…

Sun Microsystems over the next few months will start expanding its newest line of data center services, dubbed Customer Networked Services.

The Santa Clara, Calif., company currently offers Sun Update Connection, which provides customers with automated patch management and update services for their systems.

In the next quarter of 2006, Sun will upgrade that offer, according to Mike Harding, vice president of the company’s Customer Networked Services unit.

Currently the service supports Solaris 10 implementations, Harding said. Thanks to Sun’s February acquisition of Aduva, a Linux and Solaris patch management software company, Sun’s service will also be capable of covering Solaris 8 and 9, as well as all distributions of Linux.

Sun will also be able to expand the number of competitor hardware systems the service can support.

Over the next three to four months, Sun will roll out new predictive services for its customer networked offerings around such areas as asset management, power management and security.

Harding said the goal of the new services line is to enable customers to have the critical data within the data center automatically collected and analyzed. From there decisions can be made about preventative actions, or those actions can be done automatically through the software. Source: eWeek

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