Background:
From Wall Street all the way to Main Street, Sun and AMD have compelling solutions for your business. In fact, Sun and AMD are collaborating to innovate on a range of fronts – ISV applications, virtualization, fault management applications and more. The Sun Fire V40z server represents the latest fruit of the Sun and AMD collaboration - a quantum leap in return on enterprise IT investment with extreme performance, reliability, serviceability, and flexibility. Not to mention that its dual-core processing can help save $2 million dollars* a year in power costs alone. Stay tuned as the Sun and AMD collaborative alliance continues to yield groundbreaking yet competitively priced products in coming months.
"With our growing list of collaborations, Sun and AMD break new ground and add meaningful value to each others' solutions. Sun's network expertise and AMD's processor solutions lead to unprecedented flexibility and scalability for IT customers. Sun brings strength to our growing AMD processor ecosystem as we add and contribute to Sun's server power, efficiency and scalability. Our deep relationship is a perfect example of a collaboration that adds unparalleled value for enterprise IT customers."
—Dirk Meyer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Microprocessor Solutions Sector, AMD
*Customers deploying a 10,000 CPU core (1250 dual-core Sun Fire V40z servers) over a Dell, HP or IBM Xeon MP 4-processor based solution providing the same amount of CPU cores in the datacenter. Calculations based on worldwide average cost per kilowatt-hour of 13 cents and customers deploying a 10,000 CPU core compute farm of the Sun Fire V40z servers powered by the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, over a similarly configured Intel Xeon Processor MP based solution. Data gathered from the World Energy Organization, which takes into consideration energy costs in the U.S. (avg. 5-10 cents/kWh), Europe (avg. 15-20 cents/kWh), and Japan (15-20 cents/kWh).
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