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Increased levels of integration, standardization, and higher levels of abstraction are finally allowing management of services, rather than individual hardware, operating system, and application platforms. |
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This report evaluates the product features and performance of the Sun Fire V440 in greater detail and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses compared to its leading competitors in the 64-bit market. |
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This IDC white paper describes Sun's latest entry in the four-way server market space. |
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Entry-level Servers, Midrange Servers |
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The Sun Grid Rack System for Web Services and the Service Delivery Network Architecture |
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As part of an end-to-end architecture available from Sun, the Sun Fire V20z server--with its flexibility and performance--creates a myriad of opportunities to build technical and business solutions that match specific customer requirements. |
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Sun Fire V210, Sun Fire V240 |
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Growing demand for scalable and available services coupled with modern economic realities are re-shaping the design of the multi-tiered datacenter. |
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This document describes the system architecture of the Sun Fire V440 server along with key software components for remote management, resource management, and services that promote available application delivery in the data center. |
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Sun understands that low-and high-end entry servers must meet customer requirements in terms of price/performance, reliability, security, availability, and manageability. As a result, the Sun Fire V440 server is designed to be affordable while reducing data center cost and complexity. |
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Sun Fire V490, Sun Fire V890, Sun Fire E2900, Sun Fire E4900, Sun Fire E6900, Sun Fire V480, Sun Fire V880, Sun Fire V1278 |
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The new Sun Fire V490 and V890 servers running the proven and robust Solaris Operating System deliver on Sun's Throughput Computing vision. Along with the horizontal and vertical scalability needed for many classes of applications, the Sun Fire V890 server delivers up to twice the computational throughput and compute density of Sun's previous-generation datacenter servers in the same physical footprint.At the same time, both the Sun Fire V490 and V890 servers offer full binary compatibility for unprecedented levels of investment protection for owners of Sun's previous-generation systems. |
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Grid computing and its impact on the network. |
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This Aberdeen Executive White Paper compares Sun's V480 SPARC/Solaris architecture running Oracle 9i RAC with Dell's PowerEdge 6650 Xeon MP-based server using Linux and also running Oracle 9i RAC. |
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This paper examines the business case for using traditional Unix servers such as the Sun Fire V440 instead of Intel servers. It uses a Business Value methodology, which allows all the impacts to be quantified. The paper concludes that in many environments this approach offers reduced capital and management costs, improved availability, and more productive applications delivered faster. |
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Sun and Dell both claim to reduce IT cost and complexity. "Two Vendor's Strategies for Reducing Cost and Complexity," an executive white paper from Aberdeen, compares strategies and products offered by the two companies to achieve this goal, demonstrating Sun's clear advantages. |
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