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Why Sun for Small and Medium Business?

You want to accelerate growth, and need an expert technology partner to help move you forward. We blend innovation, performance, and industry standards to bring you the world's best technology solutions—with fast delivery and affordable prices.


Leading-Edge Innovation

Now, your company can leverage Sun's industry-best IT innovations, such as world-record speed, exceptional eco-efficiency and scalability, and the multiple advantages of the free, open source Solaris 10 OS.

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Affordable Systems, Extreme Performance

Our x64 systems are designed like x86 systems from other vendors to support multiple operating systems. But here's the difference: Sun adds innovations and value that go above and beyond competitive offerings. Likewise, our CoolThreads servers deliver virtualization and security encryption capabilities—at zero additional costs—that are unmatched for value and versatility.

Built for Growth & Scalability

  • Only vendor to offer a wide range of x64 and CoolThreads servers
    • Exceptional scalability in the compact 4U Sun Fire X4600 server (upgradeable to quad-core, with a total of 32 cores)
    • CoolThreads servers that deliver up to 128 hardware threads in as little as 1U, with unmatched capabilities for server virtualization and security running your toughest multi-threaded web, application, database and HPC workloads
  • Only vendor to offer flexible blade servers that support mutiple processor blades simultaneously offering extreme speed and scalability
  • Easy scalability with Solaris Containers, for web and application virtualization

Bulletproof Security

  • Only vendor to offer built-in encryption processing—CoolThreads servers integrate cryptographic acceleration directly onto the chip resulting in dramatically higher performance at low cost
  • Enhanced security built into the Solaris 10 OS
  • Security-hardened Apache web server in the Solaris 10 OS
  • Robust Java security

Designed for the Web Economy

  • The best levels of web performance in the lowest space and power footprint
  • Servers come standard with 4 GbE, for high-bandwidth connectivity to the network for Internet deployment
  • Security-hardened, to protect against Internet hackers and viruses
  • Sun created Java to promote Web-based applications
  • Only vendor to provide pre-optimised versions of the most common software used for web computing CoolStack at no charge

Award Winning Innovation

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Choice of OS

Windows. Linux. Solaris. Sun offers over a dozen systems compatible with these operating systems. Now, you can run your choice of OS on the planet's most efficient rack and blade servers.

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Financing & Fast Delivery
We've partnered with leading online suppliers to offer you broad product selection, competitive pricing, financing options, and fast delivery.
New Industry-Standard Offerings

Industry Standard

Recent strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel, and AMD, along with our acquisition of MySQL, have enabled us to provide industry-standard options that are unmatched by our competitors.

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