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Sun Expands Open Network Systems Offerings
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Sun's new Chip Multithreading (CMT) servers deliver breakthroughs with built-in virtualization
Businesses are continuously facing new IT challenges including how to improve business agility, scalability and reliability, while managing limited resources and expenses. Sun has taken a lot of the hard work out and developed a path for our customers to succeed. Our Open Network Systems architecture, which converges open computing, networking, software and storage technologies, delivers speed, simplicity and savings across the datacenter. Sun has recently expanded the Open Network Systems architecture with the enhanced chip multithreading (CMT) server line, which combines new 1.6-GHz UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors with new built-in Sun Logical Domains (LDOMs) 1.2 virtualization software and on-chip cryptographic acceleration -- at no additional cost. With six new world record benchmarks, Sun CMT servers and new LDOMs 1.2 virtualization software provides breakthrough virtualization and compute performance, simplifying management and accelerating application response time. The latest Sun LDOMs 1.2 virtualization software features built-in configuration tools, central processing unit (CPU) power management (which automatically powers off cores not in use), built-in recovery to automatically back up LDOM configurations on disk in case of system corruption, and a physical-to-virtual migration tool that helps customers to adopt LDOM infrastructures quickly when moving from existing legacy SPARC/Solaris systems to Sun CMT systems. According to Gartner, "Virtualization is gaining significant interest and deployment across Asia Pacific as CIOs look to virtualization to solve increasing processing demands. Virtualization is the only way forward for many." Customers can further boost the performance of their CMT blades with Sun's open networking technologies such as the Sun Blade 6000 Virtual Network Express Module, a high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), easy to configure, standards-based virtualized provisioning network module that delivers exceptional cost-per-port and takes complexity out of the network infrastructure by eliminating a full switching layer. The updated Sun Blade X6440 and Sun Blade X6420 server modules, Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 rackmount servers, and the Sun Fire X4540 storage server based on the new six-core AMD Opteron processor, are ideal for virtualization, enterprise workloads, datacenter consolidation, and compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC). Enterprise 2.0 applications such as blogging software, wikis, feeds, and social networking applications can easily be deployed with Sun's Open Network Systems Enterprise 2.0 Solution for Oracle, which combines Sun CMT blade servers running the Solaris OS, the Sun Blade 600 Multi-Fabric NEM, and Open Storage with Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database 11g integrated to deploy a highly reliable Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure that delivers simplicity, speed, and savings. Enterprises can deploy this infrastructure up to 75% faster than traditional approaches and consolidate multiple application instances through built-in virtualization on Sun's energy efficient, flash-ready CMT blade servers. More details are available at http://www.sun.com/cmt. For more information about Sun's CMT server benchmarks, visit http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/overview/performance.jsp Regards, Lionel Lim | ||
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