Trade-In Program

Investment Protection

• Investment Protection. Everyone Promises It - Only Sun Makes It A Reality.
  Sun's commitment to investment protection gives you unsurpassed advantages


• DH Brown White Paper - "Sun's Investment Protection Strategy and How it Benefits Customers"
  This paper focuses on how Sun has helped its customers reduce TCO while protecting their IT infrastructure investments.


• Sun Blueprint Article: Protecting Investments Through Technology Advancements
  BluePrints article explains what it means to protect IT investments, and what you need to consider when protecting them. It also illustrates how Sun's platform of SPARC-Solaris platform can be used to deploy an infrastructure with investment protection built-in.

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Desktops/Workstations

• Ultra 5-Ultra 10 Architecture
  This white paper introduces a new generation of Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 workstations, employing the latest in high performance UltraSPARC-IIi processors coupled with Sun's flexible low-cost and high performance graphics options.

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Enterprise and Workgroup Servers

• Sun Blueprint Article: Protecting Investments Through Technology Advancements
  BluePrints article explains what it means to protect IT investments, and what you need to consider when protecting them. It also illustrates how Sun's platform of SPARC-Solaris platform can be used to deploy an infrastructure with investment protection built-in.


• IBM DB2 and Sun Enterprise Server Configuration Guide
  This configuration guide provides you with the information and procedures you need to install, configure, and test software on Sun Enterprise 250 or Enterprise 450 servers.


• Sun Server Scalability and Sizing Guide
  Sun and PTC recently simulated a workload of 1000 concurrent Windchill users. The goal of this scalability testing was to measure and optimize user latency under several test configurations on a Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which were used to help formulate sizing recommendations that are presented in this paper.


• Scalability of Sun Servers with Decision Support Workloads
  The TPC-H benchmark, recently ratified by the Transaction Processing Performance Council, simulates multi-user ad-hoc queries typical of real-world decision support applications. This paper reports on the outstanding scalability of the Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 servers as deomonstrated in recent testing.


• STARFIRE: Extending the SMP Envelope
  Describes the interconnect "glue" that cements Sun Enterprise 10000 processors together -- details the Star Fire interconnect. (Reprinted, with permission, from Jan/Feb IEEE Micro)


• Sun Enterprise 10000 System Overview
  Discusses the key technical features of the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server. Includes discussion of Gigaplane-XBTM crossbar data interconnect, Dynamic System Domains, Reliability, Availability, and Servicability features.


• Sun Enterprise 10000: SunTrust Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
  Discusses the SunTrust features offered in the Sun Enterprise 10000 that deliver superior reliability, availability and serviceability. It covers the unique technologies employed that set the Enterprise 10000 server apart from other vendors' solutions.

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