One of Sun's motivations is the knowledge that product, people, and process must work in harmony to create a highly available enterprise. This is as true for an enterprise with a single server, or a datacenter that spans the globe. Sun realizes that the customers' business drives their requirements, and that a single best practice may not fulfill the needs of everyone. Methodology texts share thoughts about system and enterprise architecture, implementing and managing configurations and processes in the datacenter. The first of these books, Resource Management , is now available.
Case studies reinforce methodology with consumer case studies.
This is where we get out of the lab and into the field. Customers are working with us to develop books such as Back Up and Restore and Disaster Recovery , both of which will be published in the Spring of 2000. We have also developed Sun BluePrints OnLine Magazine where we post articles on subjects relating to the Program. We are also using the OnLine Magazine to provide updates to our books. The Enterprise Engineering group is comprised of an international group of senior systems engineers and the program management that oversees the writing and publishing of Sun BluePrints.