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Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology

Overview

Tackle the demands of secure web scale, databases, ERP, CRM, and business applications with the fastest, most space-saving and energy-efficient, and open systems. Sun systems with CoolThreads technology deliver breakthrough performance, scalability and reliability with dramatic space, power, and cost efficiency on Sun's proven open source chip multithreading (CMT) architecture. In addition, you get open source Solaris 10 OS and virtualization technology at no extra cost.

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Incredible Savings

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is up to 5 times cheaper compared to competitive systems. While the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server is up to 2.9 times cheaper compared to competitive systems.

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CoolThreads Technology in the Sun Blade T6320

Delivers virtualization and consolidation capabilities for your data center
Outperforms competing products by up to 40 percent, using up to 30 percent less power
Optimized for large multi-node installations

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ISVs Endorse Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology

"With these new Sun systems, Sun is not only enabling Oracle's huge user base on UltraSPARC to maximize the performance of their applications and realize the significant cost savings benefits of this new multi-threaded platform, they're also creating a new market opportunity with a high-performance, low-cost deployment alternative for Oracle grid," Charles Phillips, President, Oracle

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Customer Perspectives

“As the world's largest mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers, we ran extensive testing on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running Oracle databases and it's been truly amazing. We were able to double our performance on the 4RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server compared to our existing 40RU, 64 CPU system and also cut CPU utilization by over 50%. We have never seen so much mid-range computing power in such a small box while also dramatically reducing space and power consumption.”

— Mr. Wangxin, director of the BOSS operations department,
China Mobile

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Industry Awards

	Gold Medal Award Winner SearchDataCenter.com selects the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers for the Gold Medal winner for the server category for 2007. Read the full article
	Energy Efficiency Award Flex Your Power selected the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers as the Energy Efficiency winner for the 5th Annual Flex Your Power Awards View All Awards

CoolThreads & UltraSPARC

The UltraSPARC T1, T2, and T2 Plus processors with CoolThreads technology delivers the industry's fastest throughput with breakthrough energy efficiency.

CoolThreads = ROI

World Performance Records: Since their introduction in 2005, Sun CoolThreads systems have set more than 60 performance records.

SWaP (Space, Watts and Performance): Calculate Coolthreads' potential for yourself using the SWaP metric for measuring system performance and efficiency.

Sun's Commitment to Eco-Responsibility: Sun designs innovative products that consume less power yet provide the performance and business benefits that our customers need.

Current Promotions

Try the Sun systems with CoolThreads technology risk-free for 60 days; then get 25%-45% off.

Get up to 50% off when you trade-in your Sun, HP, IBM, or Dell server for a eco-efficient Sun system with CoolThreads technology.