Sun redefines midrange enterprise computing

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While competitive systems from competing vendors cost as much as 80% more or deliver as little as 1/4 the performance, the Sparc Enterprise T5440 server with the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) delivers world record performance and enables customers to consolidate and virtualize midrange applications, including large scale OLTP databases, CRM and ERP.

In a compact 4U package, the Sparc Enterprise T5440 server increases server utilization while reducing energy consumption and lowering operating costs. Additionally, the Sparc Enterprise T5440 server is the first chip multi-threaded (CMT) server to scale up to four processors.

Iain Jardin, Systems Practice Manager SEE, Sun Microsystems, said:

'Sun is dramatically changing IT economics and delivering enormous value to the regions midrange market that could not come at a more critical time.'

'The Sparc Enterprise T5440 server offers incredible performance on a completely different curve in a footprint that's half the size of the competition. For customers, it all comes down to faster, smaller, greener, better,' Jardin added.

The Sparc Enterprise T5440 server, with up to 32 cores (256 threads) and 512 GB of memory, is one of the first systems to incorporate unique power management features including the ability to park idle threads. The Sparc Enterprise T5440 server also features a redesigned power distribution subsystem with highly efficient digital regulators which reduce wasted energy over previous analog designs.

With built-in, open source, no-cost virtualization via Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms), the Sparc Enterprise T5440 server is an ideal platform for consolidating hundreds of existing enterprise class workloads onto a single system.

Additionally, for existing Solaris customers, the Solaris 8 and 9 Containers capability enables customers to run multiple Solaris 8 or 9 environments on a single Sparc-based system. As a result, customers can quickly and easily move existing physical environments to virtual containers on Solaris 10 and take advantage of the performance, scale and cost savings of new Sparc Enterprise CMT-based servers today.

The new Sparc T5440 will be available in the Middle East from (November, 2008), through Sun's major channel partners. Sun also provides a full suite of services to help its regional customers maximize their infrastructure investments. Services include consolidation, virtualization, maximizing data center efficiency and migration to Solaris 10.