A new Sun BluePrints article, "Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers," demonstrates that Sun is a serious vendor of x64 hardware with the company now supporting Microsoft Windows in addition to the Solaris OS and Linux. The BluePrint details the workarounds needed to install pre-release versions of Windows Server 2008 on Sun Fire and Sun Blade servers.
Senior Product Manager Lisa Federico in Sun's Systems Marketing highlights the features of the Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ server family, from the V490 to the E25K, in an eight-minute webcast. The UltraSPARC IV+ servers can scale up to 72 processors, and with the 1.95/2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors, systems can go even faster.
Customers interested in Sun Fire V480 and V880 servers and their associated products are in for significant cost savings. Sun has reduced the price for all remanufactured 1.2GHz-based V480 and V880 products since recent material costs for these products have dropped.
Customers of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers should download the updated XCP firmware release hosted on the Sun Download Center. This free download comes with 129 changes, bug fixes, security enhancements, revised timezone information, and BUI support for Capacity on Demand.
Sun has lowered the entry point for buying its Sun Streaming System by offering a new Capacity on Demand (COD) X-option, giving customers the option to purchase a Sun Fire X4950 Streaming Switch line card with only one port enabled. Additional ports can be enabled as needed via licenses. There is a four port maximum per line card.
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