Date: 25-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/servers/blades/iomodules/index.xml

Sun Open Network Blade I/O Solutions

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
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Key Applications

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

Learn More about our Blade Solutions

Spotlight

Sun Announces Latest Open Network Systems Products Press Release (April 14, 2009)
Sun's Open Network Systems Approach for High Performance Computing (April 14, 2009)
New 10 GbE NEM: Sun Blade 6000 10 GbE Virtualized NEM
New InfiniBand NEM: Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand QDR NEM
New InfiniBand EM: Sun Dual-Port InfiniBand QDR Host Channel Adapters
See all InfiniBand products

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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