Sun STARS around the globe: Philippe Julio
Monday Jan 05, 2009
How long have you been employed at Sun and where are you located?
I was born in Paris, France. I have been working for Sun since January 2001. I am GSE Lead Architect at Velizy, France.
What do you like best about working for Sun?
I like working on datacenter consolidation, business intelligence, architecture design, methodology and business consulting. Innovation and community development make the difference at Sun face to competition, and it's very exciting for me! I appreciate the opportunity to give Sun employees the possibility to work at home and have their desktop environment with collaborative tools. Today, Sun technologies can make it!
What is your current job role and how does it help solve customer business problems?
My challenges are to develop Sun value propositions to aquire new accounts, to propose IT solutions aligned on customer business needs, to create new sales opportunities, to give the means of being more upstream on decision-making processes and to present at high level unique Sun values. I have an expertise in Business Intelligence and I provide architecture solutions for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data in order to help customers make better business decisions. I am working for top accounts in datacenter consolidation and I design the best architectures, improving TCO and better ROI with virtualization and green technologies.
Because they are Super Heros, Sun Stars use their Super Powers to get the job done. What are your Super Powers?
I work with all Sun organizations, practices, marketing, sales operations, finance and legal to deliver best solutions for my customers. I am geek of technologies and I like to share my vision and ideas with Sun people, not only with System Engineers but with all Sun people. Explaining technologies for business and sharing known-how with the greatest number of people is really gratifying. "Share with people, People share with you!"
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy efficient data centers? If so, please give us an example.
I have had an opportunity with a server consolidation project for a car manufacturer. This project will reduce the installed base by 20% in 2009. For having the better ROI, the solution has been implemented with Solaris 8 Containers and Sun Eco Servers...
By the way, the cost saving is very good because the applications installed base haven't been transformed and the energy consumption has been reduced significantly.
Do you have a favorite blog or website?
Because, except for the fact that I like coffee (Java coffee of course 
), this site is a good marketing example for trademark adoption.
Name one thing you worry about.
The war in Afghanistan and Irak. The economical crisis in the world is also worrying..
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Yes, I am SunSpace (Sun's internal site) and LinkedIn member.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
In 2006, I worked for the Systems Practice. Once, a customer required technologies and reliable products, but in fact wanted that Sun provide business value for his company. That day, I understood that we had to change our speech and have an approach based on business value not only on technology and products.
Rapidly, I started to launch this challenge with sales managers in manufacturing and telecommunications companies. It was a hard work because that imposed changing our positioning, but that ended up with sales opportunities. At the same time, I led trainings for sellers, architects and systems engineers.
In November 2007, I became a community driver. I took the decision to develop "Sun Value Propositions" in order to share this know-how as much as possible. I wrote many publications and gave life to this worldwide community by using different means of communication in order to permit everyone to give their point of view and exchange their experience. This community relates technologies, methodologies, services, references and key performance indicators to manage and measure the infrastructure performance and value; alignes IT solutions on company business drivers, goals and strategy with business value; Implements business intelligence for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise make better business decisions and builds datacenter efficiency according to three major steps like standardization, virtualization and automation. Today, this community is classified in the top ten performances with more than 600 members and mean of 500 downloads and 1500 views per month.
Wow- those are very impressive numbers!
Where did you last go on vacation?
I travelled in the South-East of Spain, near Granada. I spent 2 weeks in the midst of nature with my wife and my two children 
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Italian westerns movies in the sixties have been shooted in this area.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?
I am fond of Home Theater; my preferred movies are science fiction like Cube, eXistenZ, Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, The Fly, Star Wars... These movies are recorded on High Definition Blu-ray DVD, images are really different compared with a standard DVD. With this system, it is fun to play video games on a large screen: my children love it, so do their friends!
I like skiing in Jura, in the south-east of France. In this country, Nordic ski is common because you can find many great forests and protected spaces..
I have a true passion for sea fishing, particularly at Belle-Ile-en-Mer. It's a beautiful Brittany island in France. In this area, sea is full of white sea bass and sea-breams: these are excellent good tasting fishes.
Do you blog?
I maintain my blog based on Business and IT value.
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