Sun Microsystems Global Financial Services

Frees IT to Respond to Changing Business Needs

Financial choices = IT opportunities: We're focused on delivering advanced financial options, tailored to meet your IT objectives -- whether you want to stay current with cutting-edge innovations, maximize a limited budget, upgrade systems as needed, or ensure that your IT capabilities can change as quickly as your business environment.

IT budget flexibility: Sun Microsystems Global Financial Services offers comprehensive financial support, no matter what stage of the IT lifecycle you're in:

• Planning, budgeting and growth curves
• Procurement and implementation
• Displacement and product disposal

Lowers IT Investment Requirements

Benefit today and tomorrow: Financing through Sun can put advanced technology to work for you today, even if you don't have the capital to spend. Our proven financial services can maximize your spending power through creative payment profiling, off balance sheet options, one-stop-shopping for hardware, software, and services, and low monthly payments. Flexible end-of-term options give you additional choices down the line. Financing can be a powerful strategy to maximize IT profitability.

Reduces Risk

Escape the obsolescence trap: Accelerating technology obsolescence is a fact of life, and it can erode your competitiveness. But you can stay ahead of obsolescence through financing. For example, we can give you financial options that refresh your technology as needed with the newest innovations while lowering the risk and burden of ownership. When your IT managers say, "We need more capacity, quick," you can say, "Order it today." When they say, "We need to replace this system," you can say, "Start right now."

Out with the old: In today's datacenters, every square foot has to be optimized, and aging technology can carry hidden costs in maintenance and space. Sun now offers industry-leading servers that save more on power, cooling, and space costs than any other. The new Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology can potentially save you millions of dollars in rack space and energy costs while delivering better services to your customers. Our full range of storage products -- disk, tape, NAS, software, appliances, and storage area networking -- lets you apply an efficient solution for each need.

These, and many more Sun technologies, can help you cut costs and risk while growing to meet business demands, all through financially advantageous programs that get you going immediately. It's a perfect fit.

Improves Cash Flow Management

Fine-tune your investments: Financially strong businesses might be tempted to fund new technology with cash, but this draws vital resources away from other critical investments. Instead, we can work with you to customize a package that helps you preserve cash and liquidity. Equally important, our experts can help you make technology asset management an effective component of your long-term business strategy. For example, we can assess the residual value of an IT asset and pass the value back to you through lower monthly payments. That can help you conserve working capital and maximize cash flow, and protect credit lines at the same time.