Sun delivers the industry's most open and versatile enterprise blade platform.
Designed by a team led by Andy Bechtolsheim, these systems deliver the fastest
performance, ease of scalability, energy efficiency and longevity. Sun Blade systems
support your choice of architectures: Sun UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon,
Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows and VMware in a single common chassis.
At A Glance
Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts
Shared power and cooling, save 15% more energy than equivalent rackmount servers
Maximum flexibility – SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule
Streamlined, Sun Blade Transparent Management to ease integration into existing datacenter and management infrastructure
Hot-swappable, hot-pluggable, redundant modular components to optimize reliability, availability and serviceability
Sun is helping Gracenote find the music through a combination of Solaris, the Sun Blade 8000 P chassis with Sun Blade X8440/X8420 server modules and Sun services.
"
Our chart application is highly CPU-intensive. Our Sun Blade Server 8000 platform is a hands-down winner over our previous environment. It delivers more CPU power with fewer computers to configure and maintain, plus 'swappable' hard drives. The choice was a no-brainer.
"
By consolidating your Web or business application servers on Sun Blade systems, you can gain greater throughput in less space, reduce the number of systems, and improve the performance, management, and security of your IT infrastructure at up to half the cost of alternative solutions.
