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The Sun Blade Modular System is designed to enable business efficiency through the dramatic simplification of your IT infrastructure. By reducing network complexity and costs you gain the agility and performance you need to stay competitive.    See all Sun Blades systems benchmarks.

More Memory Slots

 

The Sun Blade Server Modules provide up to 2x more memory DIMM sockets for running virtualization and memory-intensive workloads than competing blades.



More I/O Bandwidth

 

The Sun Blade Modular System offers up to 3x more I/O bandwidth/chassis than competing blade servers, ensuring the highest end-to-end performance and throughput by eliminating network bottlenecks.



Lower Energy Usage

 

By utilizing highly efficient power and cooling modules and a system design which allows for effective front to back cooling, Sun Blades offer better energy efficiency and lower power consumption than competing blades or rackmount servers.


For more on power consumption, check out the Sun Power Calculators.

More Compute Density

 

The Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with the AMD Opteron-based Sun Blade X6440 Server Modules offers up to 71% higher density than the competing blades.



Lower TCO

 

The Sun Blade Modular System is offered at a lower entry price point (with one fixed low price for support) resulting in up to 33% lower TCO than the competing blades.



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Sun Blade Modular Systems Offer A Smarter Architecture

Slash costs and reduce complexity by using fewer systems, less space, and less energy.

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Last.fm

Leading Music Community Web Site Expects Major Savings in Power Consumption with the Sun Blades

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Jülich provides high performance computing for scientists and researchers throughout Europe with the Sun Constellation System.

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Symeos

French Company Reduces Development Costs of Online Identity Management Platform by 60% with Open-Source Sun Solutions

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Sony Canada

Electronics Company Cuts Data Query Time in Half with a Seamless Solution from Sun and SAP

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Clemson University

University Provides World-Class Service with High Performance Computing Cluster from Sun

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One of the first customers using the new Sun Blade X6275 and Sun Blade 6048 IB QDR Switched NEM to run HPC applications

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