Sun and Oracle Channel Sun How to Buy Log In United States [Change] English

Servers

Awards & Reviews

Award Winning Products, Outstanding Performance

[Entry-Level Servers]  [Midframe and Midrange Servers]  [High-End Servers]  [Analyst Reports]  [View Past Awards]


Sun offers the industry's most scalable and highest performing server family. Products that enable customers to create breakaway business strategies in the enterprise by providing innovative yet safe network computing solutions for the enterprise.

The dramatic growth in market share, customer demand, and successful, satisfied customers is further amplified by the industry awards won by our products and the outstanding performance numbers.

Sun Entry-Level Servers:

  • eWEEK - Sun Scales Up Blade System (2/9/04)
    Sun's Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform provides large organizations with a well-designed system for running multiple front-end applications within a single, compact system. Strong redundancy features and integrated management make the B1600 a good choice for Linux or Solaris shops. Sun Fire blades are priced competitively, starting at less than $1,800; the B1600 chassis starts at $4,795. However, adding load balancing and SSL offload options quickly raises the system's cost.

  • ServerWatch - Sun Fire V210 Takes on Intel-based Servers (12/11/03)
    Sun has long had a reputation of being more expensive than Intel-based servers, but that reputation includes the understanding that you receive the extra stability and power of the 64-bit SPARC processor and the Solaris operating system in return for the extra expense. If that's your perception, it may need some fine-tuning with the release of the Sun Fire V210. With a starting price less than $3,000, the V210 is a SPARC/Solaris server that is competitive in both price and performance with Intel-based servers.

  • eWEEK - Sun Fire Server Measures Up (7/21/03)
    Sun Microsystems Inc.'s decision to enter the x86 server space has faced skepticism from the industry, but eWEEK Labs' tests showed that the Sun Fire v65x is not only an effective, inexpensive server built with off-the-shelf Intel Corp. parts, but when coupled with Sun's upcoming Sun Control Station management software, it will also up the ante considerably in non-Windows environments.

  • The Sun LX50 Server Awarded the 2002 LinuxWorld Enterprise Evolutions Award (08/14/02)
    Announced at LinuxWorld Expo, the Sun LX50 server is a 1U form-factor server that sports a pair of 1.4-GHz Pentium III CPUs and a raft of Sun software. Bundled with the Sun LX50 server are Sun Linux 5.0, Solaris 9 OE, the Sun ONE Application Server, MySQL Database, Sun Grid Engine software, Sun ONE Developer Studio, Sun ONE Active Server Pages (ASP), and Sun Streaming Server software.

  • Sun Fire V480 server Harnesses UltraSPARC III Power (07/29/02)
    The Sun Fire V480, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s latest entry-level server, packs plenty of fire power in a compact 5U (8.75-inch) form factor. eWeek's Labs' tests showed the V480 will be a good choice as an application server, a database server, or even as a high-performance Web or file server in workgroups or as cluster servers.

  • Sun Servers get an "A" in PC Magazine's 15th Annual Service & Reliability Reader Survey (07/11/02)
    Sun servers outscored both IBM and HP in PC Magazine's 15th Annual Service & Reliability Reader Survey. "Sun equipment is very reliable, and the service is great," crows one Sun user from New York. Says another, "My main server has been up for 159 days with no problems.

  • Sun Fire 280R Outperforms the Competition in PC Magazine Review (05/21/02)
    In the May 21 issue of PC Magazine, general-purpose servers from Compaq, HP, IBM and others were compared to the Sun Fire 280R server. With a single 900 MHz UltraSPARC[R] III processor, the Sun Fire 280R server surpassed all other servers in the review on both the dynamic and static WebBench tests. Additionally, PC Magazine states that the Sun Fire 280R server includes the most impressive remote management they've seen. Read the article. View the Benchmark.

  • The Sun Fire V880 Outperforms the Compaq Proliant 8500 Running Windows NT by More than 37 Percent. (10/29/01)
    Sun Fire V880 sets world record price performance benchmark on the NotesBench Lotus Domino WebMail benchmark. The Sun Fire V880 server, utilizing the UltraSPARC III processor, delivered a price-per-user cost of $18.47, beating Compaq's price-per-user of $24.88 by $6.41. The Sun Fire V880 server demonstrates 37% faster mail server performance using the NotesBench Lotus Domino WebMail application than the Compaq Proliant 8500 running Windows NT. The Sun Fire V880 server also delivers a price-to-performance ratio 26% better than that of the Compaq 8500, proving that Solaris Operating Environment (OE) implementations are more cost effective than Microsoft NT implementations.

  • Eight-Way Sun Fire V880 with 16 GB of Memory is World's Largest System Ever to Run ECperfs; Delivers World-Record Performance. (10/29/01)
    Sun has demonstrated the world's largest system ever to run ECperf Benchmarks using an Eight-way Sun Fire V880 server with 16 GB of memory, running the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE). This test resulted in a world-record performance of 5961.77 BBops/min@Std and $51/BBops running Borland AppServer 4.5 with Oracle 8i and Java 1.3.1.

  • The Sun Fire 280R server beats up HP and IBM for the InfoWorld Reader's Choice Award, (06/01/01)
    Demonstrating the new standard for enterprise computing, the Sun Fire 280R recently won the InfoWorld Reader's Choice Award for Server Hardware of the Year. With 37% of the votes, the Sun Fire 280R beat out IBM's pSeries S80 and Hewlett-Packard's Superdome. Providing massive scalability, real-time response, continuous server availability and agility, the Sun Fire 280R is a high-density, low profile server with up to two UltraSPARC III processors for service providers and enterprise data center environments.

Sun Midframe and Midrange Servers:
  • Sun Fire Midframe Servers Awarded CRN'S 2001 Channel Champion for the UNIX® Midrange Server Category, (03/13/02)
    Sun's newest UltraSPARC® III-based Midframe servers were recently voted number one in key technical areas such as product quality, reliability, scalability, price/performance and return on investment by systems integrators, network integrators and MSPs.

  • Sun's 24-Way Midframe Server Sets New World Record for PeopleSoft 8 General Ledger with Combination Editing Benchmark Test, (08/13/01)
    A part of PeopleSoft's industry-leading Financial Management solution, PeopleSoft General Ledger (GL) gives customers extensive financial control, flexible system design, streamlined global processing and audience-relevant reporting. The 24-way configured Sun Fire 6800 Midframe server running the industry-leading Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) blew the competition away, achieving double the overall performance of its nearest comparably configured competitor, again proving the superior efficiency of the UltraSPARC III processor.

  • Sun's Midframe Server Sets New World Record for PeopleSoft 8 Financials, (03/21/01)
    A new world record for the PeopleSoft 8 Financials Online benchmark, with Sun's new Sun Fire 6800 Midframe server delivering 2.4 times more system throughput than Sun's nearest competitor.

  • Sun's New Sun Fire Server Hits Record Performance with Oracle E-Business Suite, (03/21/01)
    The combination of Sun's superior hardware and the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) has delivered results in real world industry-leading benchmarks that demonstrate unprecedented levels of performance in scalability and flexibility, while clearly outperforming IBM and Compaq. This online transaction processing (OLTP) and batch transaction benchmark simulated users performing real-world multi-tier ERP application functions in the areas of financials and supply chain management.

Sun High-End Servers

What the Analysts are Saying