GRID Today: Sun Boosts Server Line |
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Written by Staff (GRID Today)
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Saturday, 16 September 2006 16:00 |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. announced an extension to its systems portfolio
with new Sun Fire servers and Sun Ultra Workstations. Optimized for the
Solaris 10 operating system, these new offerings will help customers
increase data center efficiency and lower operational costs.
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced an extension to its systems portfolio
with new Sun Fire servers and Sun Ultra Workstations. Optimized for the
Solaris 10 operating system, these new offerings will help customers
increase data center efficiency and lower operational costs.
The latest additions to the Sun Systems portfolio include:
- First-ever
Sun Netra blade servers with breakthrough energy-efficient CoolThreads
technology for telecommunications applications.
- Nearly
20 percent performance boost for new Sun Fire workgroup servers,
outfitted with high-performance UltraSPARC IIIi processors with
increased memory and throughput, and investment protection with the
binary compatibility of the Solaris OS.
- New
lowest-cost Sun Ultra 25 Workstation with a 300 percent performance
increase and key software pre-installed to aid in development of new
applications: Solaris 10 OS, Sun Studio, Sun Java Studio Creator and
Sun Java Studio Enterprise.
- Sun Secure Application
Switch N1216 that helps systems to increase resource utilization and
security across the Sun Fire family of systems.
"These new
products strengthen Sun's systems line-up and provide a strong
foundation for a return to growth for Sun," said John Fowler, executive
vice president of the systems group at Sun Microsystems. "We continue
to raise the bar with powerful new enhancements to our Sun Fire server
family that are optimized for the Solaris Operating System, and offer
significant advantages to customers."
Sun also announced significant features and performance enhancements to the Sun Fire "CoolThreads" line:
- New
CoolThreads Netra servers with the Solaris 10 OS further extend Sun's
industry leadership in the telecommunications industry by delivering
breakthrough performance and energy efficiency. The UltraSPARC T1
processor's 32-threads provide extreme throughput and energy efficiency
in a rack mount or ATCA blade configuration, allowing OEMs to scale for
price/performance with four, six or eight cores, and up to 32 threads,
in either form factor. With a depth of under 20 inches, the Netra T2000
easily integrates into standard rack configurations, and is fully
compatible with the entire line of Netra products.
- A
series of new enhancements to the Sun Fire T1000 system, which deliver
23 percent higher availability and up to 300 percent higher performance
for disk operations. Additional enhancements include higher levels of
security and an upgrade of the standard warranty from three months to
one year (backdated to all existing Sun Fire T1000 systems purchased).
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