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Sun's Open Network System approach hits every angle to drive down costs
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For more than two decades, Sun has been an innovator in open network technologies, consistently furthering its vision, "The Network is the Computer." Now Sun is setting the industry standard for system design with its Open Network System approach — integrating and optimizing open compute, storage, networking and software technologies to deliver the best-performing, most efficient and scalable systems on the market today. A shining example of Sun's Open Network Systems approach is the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems ("Amber Road") family of storage appliances, launched just last year, which have been widely embraced by the marketplace.
This spring, Sun introduced a new family of Open Network Systems based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series (a.k.a. "Nehalem") to help customers maximize the economics of computing and deliver speed, simplicity, and efficiency. The combination of the Solaris OS and the new Intel Xeon processor-based systems delivers the highest x64 performance, energy efficiency, and reliability available in the market.
The new Open Network Systems feature:
- Multi-chip, multi-core, hyper-Threading, turbo boost technologies — Solaris has delivered near-linear scaling across multi-CPU systems over the past decade. This capability fully leverages the power Intel designed in their new Xeon processor-based systems.
- New Power Aware Dispatcher — An innovative Power Aware Dispatcher (PAD) is integrated into the OpenSolaris operating system to maximize performance while minimizing power consumption.
- Faster I/O, unlimited data — Solaris ZFS is the award-wining file system that provides a nearly unlimited storage capacity. Coupled with RAID-Z, it gives you the flexibility to create enterprise-class storage systems with open server components. Intel's Quick Path Interconnect removes input/output bottlenecks between the CPU and storage devices so you can get impressive application performance and tremendous input/output throughput with Solaris on the new Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors.
- Looking out for you and your systems — Various blades are available to meet your application requirements: Sun offers up to 256 GB of RAM and up to 270 gigabytes per second throughput to handle the most demanding, I/O-hungry applications.
- Advanced performance features for developers — The Solaris OS now exposes the new Intel SSE4.2 instruction set built into these new Xeon processors, and developers can take full advantage. The instructions are now implemented in hardware, rather than by software running on the CPU. The result is much faster execution and a reduced load on the CPU.
What all this means is that we can deliver up to three times the performance of the previous processor generation, and, with the integration of Sun's Solid States Drives (SSDs) and Flash in Sun servers and blades, customers can enjoy up to 65 times faster response times and 38 percent less power per gigabyte. And, in keeping with our open approach, these new systems can seamlessly integrate into existing Solaris, Windows or Linux systems, and can easily be managed by existing third-party tools.
Visit http://www.sun.com/launch/2009-0414/index.jsp to find out more about this exciting new technology!
Regards,
Lionel Lim
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