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Flash Product Offerings


See how Sun's FlashFire portfolio of storage products can help you meet the challenges of data-intensive computing and faster application response times with greater speed and efficiency

Flash Products
  Solid State Storage

Flash Enabled Software
  Software
Flash Enabled Storage
  Unified Storage
Flash Enabled Servers
  Blade Servers
  CMT Servers
  x64 Servers
 
 

Flash Products

Solid State Storage
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • World's fastest Flash array delivers over 1M IOPS in 1RU, improving database application response times up to 2x, eliminating bottlenecks, and slashing energy consumption by up to 80% compared to spinning disks. Includes Sun FlashFire technology.
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From $45,995
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  • Delivers the IOPS performance of over 300 disk drives and 96 GB capacity, making it ideal for reducing storage latencies and eliminating bottlenecks in I/O-intensive applications. Includes Sun FlashFire technology. Ideal for use with Solaris ZFS Hybrid storage pools.
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From $4,695
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  • Sun Flash Modules in Sun servers and blades deliver unprecedented application performance with less than 1/5 the power of both memory DIMMs and traditional disk drives. They enable new levels of in-server storage and performance density while lowering power consumption, and reducing energy costs and space.
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From $899
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  • Sun integrates SSD Flash storage into its broad portfolio of Blades, Chip Multithreading (CMT) and x64 servers to instantly and efficiently increase application I/O performance. Sun can help customers achieve dramatically improved application performance and faster response times at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.
  • Supported Platforms
From $1,199
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Flash Enabled Storage

Unified Storage
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • Highest-density server/storage solution provides up to 142 TB capacity in an energy-efficient 4U package that comes with Enterprise Flash technology and easy-to-use analytics.


From $34,995
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  • Ideal for mission-critical entry storage, with simplified management, Hybrid Storage Pool, up to 96 TB capacity, and a cluster option for high availability.
From $40,165
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  • Scales up to 288 TB capacity, providing double the performance at half the cost. Easy-to-use analytics increase uptime and hybrid architecture improves application response times.
From $73,165
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Flash Enabled Servers

Blade Servers
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • Datacenter workhorse delivers superior and power efficiency and comes with unparalleled Web scale and virtualization capabilities.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array

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  • With two multicore UltraSPARC T2 processors, up to 256 GB memory capacity, and extreme density, the Sun Blade T6340 Server Module gives you the performance you need to streamline your datacenter.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array

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  • Pushing the limits of performance for a two-socket Blade server, the Sun Blade X6240 with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors easily handles large workloads that previously required four-socket systems.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array

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  • Delivers an incredible range of performance and cost options to your Sun Blade Chassis and comes with the latest Xeon processors.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array

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  • Provides up to 192 GB of memory, giving you 50 percent more memory than competing blade servers, making it ideal for virtualization and consolidation.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array

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CMT Servers
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • Designed for Web scale performance, with up to 8 cores and 64 threads per processor, all in a compact 1RU footprint that saves on space and power.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $12,795
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  • Using 3rd generation CoolThreads technology, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server delivers world-record throughput and energy and space efficiency.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $22,995
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From $14,795
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  • The fastest 2-socket server available, with up to 5 times the performance in half the space and 2.5 times better performance per watt than comparable x86 systems.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $36,495
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  • The industry's first quad-socket CMT system, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 provides a massively scalable 256 thread midrange server design in a 4RU form factor.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $40,295
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x64 Servers
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • Offers more than 2.4 TB of high-performance internal disk storage and twice the memory capacity and networking connectivity of competitive two-socket 1RU servers.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $2,794
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From $2,035
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  • The Sun Fire X4240 server is a two-socket, 8-core, 2RU system with up to twice the memory and storage capacity of any system in its class.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $3,394
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  • Designed for demanding, memory-intensive operations, the Sun Fire X4250 server contains up to 16 SAS disk drives and is ideal for Web serving, database, and HPC.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $3,495
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From $9,925
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  • The industry's smallest enterprise class 4-socket x64 server, supporting up to 4 processors (24 cores) in a 2RU form factor.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
From $8,345
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  • The industry's smallest enterprise class 4-socket x64 server, supporting up to 4 processors (24 cores) in a 2RU form factor.
  • Supports Sun SSDs and the F5100 Flash Array
Available soon with Flash technology

Flash Enabled Software

Software
Product Key Benefits Availability
  • Take advantage of the open source and easy-to-work-with operating system and get the ZFS file system and global support.

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  • Gain access to thousands of third-party applications, unmatched enterprise offerings, and the support you need to create rock-solid deployments.

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  • Meeting the demands of the world's largest high-performance compute clusters, the Lustre file system provides groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput.

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  • Get the world's most popular open source database, now optimized for Flash. MySQL delivers performance, reliability, and ease of use.

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Turbo Charge Your I/O-Intensive Applications

Discover how SSDs integrated in Sun servers can efficiently improve performance while cutting costs.

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Why Use Flash?

Why Use Solid-State Drives (SSDs)?

Performance: Improve application response times

Efficiency: Double server throughput while reducing space and power

Cost: Boost performance without adding servers

Reliability: Robust Enterprise Flash contain no moving parts

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