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Sun Open Network Blade I/O Solutions

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Unmatched flexibility and capability along with easy integration into your existing datacenter infrastructure: Sun Blade Modular Systems are ready and able to meet your most demanding business needs. But at Sun, we also want to ensure the highest end-to-end performance and throughput by eliminating network bottlenecks. So we complement our blades with a complete line of cutting-edge, Open Network I/O solutions. Our independent, open line of PCIe ExpressModules (EMs) is based on industry-standard PCI-Express technology. And our innovative and scalable line of Network Express Modules (NEMs) simplifies the management of any network.


At a Glance

  • Open industry-standard I/O
  • Up to 2x the I/O capacity of competing blade servers
  • Hot-pluggable PCIe EMs simplify expansion and integration into existing datacenter environments
  • Zero-management, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Virtualized NEMs
  • Cost-effective, scalable Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand EMs and NEMs for the most demanding HPC applications
  • Insert and remove hot-pluggable I/O on demand with no system interruption
  • Add fabrics easily, including Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, 10 GbE

Key Applications

  • Virtualization and consolidation
  • High performance computing (HPC)
  • Enterprise Web infrastructure

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I/O Business Cases

Virtualization requires more I/O to facilitate communication across servers.

High Performance Computing (HPC) depends on I/O throughput to reduce latency and improve reliability.

Massive storage performance and access improves with increased I/O throughput.


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