Sun delivers the industry's most open and versatile enterprise blade platform. Designed by a team led by Andy Bechtolsheim, these systems deliver the fastest performance, ease of scalability, energy efficiency and longevity. Sun Blade systems support your choice of architectures: Sun UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon, Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows and VMware in a single common chassis. Some key features of blade servers are their:

• Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rack mounts

• Shared power and cooling, save 15% more energy than equivalent rackmount servers

• Maximum flexibility SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems

• Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule

• Streamlined, Sun Blade Transparent Management to ease integration into existing datacenter and management infrastructure

• Hot-swappable, hot-pluggable, redundant modular components to optimize reliability, availability and serviceability

Sun has made a wiki available for the all blade information and needs. Here you will find the Modular Solutions Community, How-To Interactive Videos, and other useful content to learn more about the Sun Blade Systems. On this wiki, you can:

• Leave comments
• Add your own Sun Blade modular solution
• Add your own How-To interactive video
• Sign up to join the Sun Blade Community

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