Sun Announces New Open Network Systems Products - Highlights Convergence of Compute, Networking and Storage with Breakaway Performance and Extreme EfficiencySun Unveils Advanced Blades Architecture with New Networking, Manageability, Cooling Management; New Flash-Ready Servers and Blades Powered by the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 14, 2009 Leading the market convergence of open computing, networking, software and storage systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today launched new products and technologies in its Open Network Systems strategy that deliver huge gains in application performance, with massive efficiency and scalability to maximize the economics of computing for data centers and clouds. To view the launch Webcast live or on-demand, and for more product information, go to http://www.sun.com/launch.
Unveiled at its North American Partner Summit today in Las Vegas, Sun's broad roll-out of new offerings spans the data center and includes a new advanced blades architecture, new networking technologies and seven new systems based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. To take advantage of special offers and promotions for Sun's new blades and x64 servers, including Sun's Try and Buy program, visit http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy. "Today's IT customer is looking for three things - speed, simplicity and savings. With Sun's Open Network Systems approach, we're combining our networking advancements, our system expertise, our core IP and innovative designs to transform commodity components into new platforms with breakthrough application performance, efficiency and scale," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. "Our new x64 systems with integrated networking technologies, advanced thermal management, open software and Open Storage enhancements will give the data center an extreme makeover, boosting efficiency and maximizing IT investment." Sun's approach evolves "The Network is the Computer" as a guiding technology principle and delivers speed, simplicity and savings via integrating Sun technologies, including: Flash-based solid state disks (SSDs) and Open Storage platforms (speed); integrated networking (simplicity); and advanced thermal management and the Solaris Operating System (OS) (savings). SPEED: Sun's New x64 Systems Deliver Breakthrough Application Performance for Virtualization, Enterprise, Web and HPC Infrastructures Sun's new servers deliver maximum performance, efficiency and scale in the data center while supporting multiple operating systems like the Solaris OS, Linux and Windows and a variety of virtualization solutions including Sun xVM Ops Center, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Solaris Containers, which allows integrated virtualization with low overhead, at no cost. Sun's new x64 servers and blade systems powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series are: Virtualization:
Enterprise and Web:
High Performance Computing:
Additional product information and specifications are available at: http://www.sun.com/x64 and http://www.sun.com/blades. Sun is the only vendor to offer SSDs across all platforms and the first and only company to deliver systems with onboard Flash modules. These next generation storage technologies help eliminate I/O bottlenecks and further improve application performance. With SSD integration across software, systems and storage, customers can achieve up to 70x faster response times, up to eight times better throughput, and up to 38 percent less power consumption than servers with traditional spinning hard disk drives. Additionally with connectivity and performance enhancements to Sun Storage J4000 arrays and a processor update in the Sun Fire x4540 storage server, Sun's Open Storage provides even greater performance with massive storage density at low cost per GB. More information on Sun's Open Storage platforms are available at: http://www.sun.com/openstorage. SIMPLICITY: Integrated Blades Networking and Manageability Solution Sun is the first vendor to deliver low-latency, high performance networking embedded in its new Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blades, leveraging integrated networking to help factor out cost and complexity. With Sun NEM technology for Sun Blade Modular Systems and servers, customers can dramatically reduce cost and complexity and simplify large scale blade server deployments into existing network fabrics. Sun's integrated networking solutions include:
More information on Sun's networking technologies is available at: http://www.sun.com/blades Additionally with unified systems management via Sun's Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM), customers can simply and easily manage Sun blades and servers. Sun's ILOM also integrates simply and easily with leading System Management platforms such as Sun xVM Ops Center and other third party management and monitoring frameworks. SAVINGS: Solaris Optimization Unleashes Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series' Enterprise Capabilities; Advanced Thermal Management Helps Increase Energy Efficiency The Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. Solaris-based systems using the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series can automatically leverage new Intel Quick Path Interconnect, Intel Turbo Boost and Intel Hyper-Threading technologies to further improve performance and scalability. For more information visit: http://www.sun.com/solaris/intel. The new Sun Cooling Door for the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, with a capacity of up to 35kW per rack, provides six times more efficient rack cooling than standard data center cooling systems and increases effective compute density by up to 70 percent over traditional in-row cooling options. The Sun Cooling Door can leverage existing chilled-water infrastructures or eco-friendly refrigerant gas. For more information on the Sun Cooling Doors, please visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/cooling Sun Open Network Systems Set More Than A Dozen World Records on Industry Standard Benchmarks Delivering up to three times the performance of dual-socket systems based on previous generation Intel Xeon processors, Sun's new x64 servers and blade modules offer a dramatic improvement in processing capabilities on a diverse range of workloads including: Enterprise and Web: TPC-H @ 1000GB benchmark - The Sun Fire X4275 server set a world record for all non-clustered systems offering 4x more price/performance over the competition. Sun's solution uses Solaris 10 and Sybase IQ 15 to claim a two processor world record result(2). Two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark - The Sun Fire X4270 server running SAP ERP application Release 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) with Oracle Database on top of Solaris 10 OS delivered the highest two-processor Unicode result on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark, as of March 30, 2009(3). SPECweb2005 benchmark - The Sun Fire X4270 server is the fastest Web server on the market, outperforming a similarly equipped HP DL 380 G6 server with more system memory, on an industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance, making the 2RU Sun server an ultimate solution for power and space-constrained data centers(4). Thomson Reuters Market Data System Benchmark - The Sun Blade X6270 server module running Reuters Market Data System 6.3.3 (RMDS) on the Solaris 10 OS, posted the best throughput result of 1,540,000 messages per second for Source Distributor and 1,330,000 messages per second for point-to-point-server (P2PS). The new benchmark result demonstrates the robustness of Solaris 10 implementation of the 10Gb Ethernet protocol showing traditional RDMS topology on the Sun Blade x6270 can handle throughput of up to 850,000 messages per second with end-to-end latency of less than one millisecond. Java: SPECjvm2008 benchmark - The Sun Blade X6270 server module leads the pack on this general-purpose multi-threaded Java benchmark. For customer deployments that often employ Java Runtime Environment (JRE ) to execute a single application on a given system, the OpenSolaris 2008.11 and Java HotSpot software, offer a proven and stable environment with best performance in the industry(5). SPECjbb2005 benchmark - The Sun Blade X6270 server module, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and the latest version of Java HotSpot software, has posted the x86 world record for all systems with single Java Virtual Machine (JVM ) instance. This record-breaking result represents a real-world server-side Java application deployment scenario and demonstrates the outstanding scalability and optimized performance of Sun's software offering(6). Sun has also set half a dozen world records on HPC benchmarks. See related press release at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-04/sunflash.20090414.2.xml. For detailed information and a complete list of all benchmarks on Sun Open Network Systems visit: http://www.sun.com/benchmarks. Customers Embrace Sun's New Open Network Systems "Sandia National Labs is very excited to be one of the first customers for the new Sun Blade X6275 and Sun Blade 6048 QDR InfiniBand Network Express Module. In addition, we will also be implementing the Lustre parallel file system to meet our stringent I/O bandwidth requirements. We anticipate that the new high performance capacity computing systems we are developing in partnership with Sun -- which make use of the new Intel Xeon 5500 series, onboard InfiniBand communication, Sun's new IB switches and the innovative Sun cooling doors -- will provide us a tremendous increase in our space, power and cost efficiency," said Dr. Robert W. Leland, Director, Computing and Network Services Center, Sandia National Laboratories. Sun's x64 systems powered by Intel Xeon processors continue to deliver customer value across a range of industries from telecommunications to media and entertainment services and have been deployed by customers including the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australian National University (ANU), South Africa's Centre for High Performance Computing, the Galileu Project, Last.fm, Sandia National Laboratories, and University of Zurich. Sun's x64 customer success stories can be found at http://www.sun.com/customers/. Sun Services Help Customers from the Ground Up Sun offers an extensive portfolio of services to help maximize the performance of the x64 server line ranging from virtualization and energy reduction consulting to HPC service offerings. With Sun virtualization and consolidation services, customers can reduce power and cooling costs by as much as 60 percent and increase space savings by as much as 57 percent (1). Customers can also leverage unique pricing models through Sun Blade Modular Systems support services, a chassis-based service pricing where one price covers the cost of all components within the chassis. For more information on Sun services visit http://www.sun.com/service. Availability and Pricing The new Sun Fire x64 products start at $1,488 U.S. list price. All prices quoted are in U.S. Dollars. For more information on promotional offers on Sun's new x64 servers, visit: http://www.sun.com/x64. Sun also plans to offer Sun Netra systems with the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series later in 2009. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Sun Fire, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun Blade, Sun Ultra, JVM, JRE and the Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Intel and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. SPEC and the benchmark names SPECjbb, SPECweb, and SPECjvm are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from this announcement and www.spec.org, as of 04/12/09. SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. For more details, see http://www.sap.com/benchmark
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