The company appears to be differentiating itself from those two by offering a more systematized method of transitioning a business to cloud computing, and taking over more of the management of corporate computing.

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Sun's N1 (it stands for "Network One") is largely aimed at network management, where it figures 80% of computing budgets go.

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They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.

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