Sun Microsystems Rolls Out Pay-Per-Use Computing Sun Microsystems has rolled out pay-per-use computing power and data storage and new software packages tailored for specific projects. The on-demand computing service will cost customers $US1 a microprocessor an hour while the storage offering will cost Sun customers $US1 per gigabyte used per month. Sun "grids" - collections of servers connected to each other - will power the services, initially from Sun Grid Centres in several US states, Canada and Scotland. Financial and oil and gas companies have been tipped as its customers. IBM and Hewlett-Packard also offer on-demand computing services. In a related announcement, Sun said it would be selling its Java Enterprise System as suites rather than as a bundle of all the offerings for $US50 an employee a year. The suites include identity management, system availability and web infrastructure components.
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