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Sun Servers Product Guide
Single 18-Page Dcoument Cover All of Sun's Servers
December 29, 2008,
Volume 130, Issue 5

Sun brings more than 20 years of systems expertise and innovative thinking to their line of servers. Sun’s servers provide the performance, scalability, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness that help meet the business needs in HPC, virtualization, and eco or energy efficiency. With Sun’s complete family of servers -- Sun Blade servers, Netra servers, and entry-level, mid-range, and high-end servers -- a truly flexible IT ecosystem is a reality. Sun offers a get a choice of processors -- SPARC, UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, or Intel Xeon -- and operating systems -- Solaris, Linux, or Windows. When you build your datacenter on a solid foundation of Sun servers, you can expect maximum ROI and minimum TCO.

THE SUN SERVER ADVANTAGE

The business world is increasingly competitive, and information technology is vital to every organization. Your IT department needs the most powerful, efficient, and cost-effective servers available to keep your enterprise ahead of the pack. Sun provides a comprehensive line of systems that can help you meet any business requirements, now and in the future.

Sun servers offer:

  • Performance – with industry-leading SPARC, UltraSPARC, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors to power your datacenter

  • Scalability – with the capacity to grow as your business grows

  • Reliability – with hot-pluggable, hot-swappable, redundant components

  • Cost-effectiveness – with minimal cooling, space, and power demands and enhanced manageability

  • Choice – with a superior selection of operating systems, including Solaris, Linux, and Windows

  • Eco responsibility – with energy efficiency that helps preserve the environment and your budget

Sun offers you more than servers

The deployment of IT resources is vital to enterprises. You need compute power that matches your needs and budget, where and when it matters most. You want to plan your IT projects carefully so that you can select the right servers, as well as the right infrastructure, to make your network as effective as possible. Sun solutions can support your business needs from end to end, throughout the lifecycle of your datacenter.

Try it for free

Take a Sun servers for a test drive in your own environment and find out just how much faster and cooler it can make your datacenter. With Sun's Try and Buy program, you get to try Sun servers free for 60 days with full technical support at no cost.

Greater value for growing businesses

For small and medium businesses needing a technological edge, look no further. Sun's innovative servers and solutions provide real technological and competitive advantages, but without the usual high cost and complexity. As the only vendor to offer a wide range of CoolThreads technology-based servers and Sun’s x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers running a choice of operating systems (Solaris, Linux, and Windows), Sun is here for you with powerful, open innovations that can drive revenue and add bottom-line value.

Refresh and renew

Save space, increase compute power, and get your IT environment in top-notch competitive form by upgrading to a faster, more efficient datacenter. Sun makes it easy to update your datacenter with the Sun Upgrade Advantage program: you can trade in your outdated servers and receive a discount toward the cost of new Sun servers.

Start up fast, start out right

If your business is an up-and-coming contender, you might want to consider the Sun Startup Essentials program. Sun offers startups industry-leading systems at significantly lower costs, along with free software and free technical advice -- and discounted partner hosting services.

Sustainable hardware for a sustainable future

If your company is ready to minimize energy costs and reduce its environmental impact, talk to Sun about innovative solutions that you can deploy today. Sun can help you transform your technology infrastructure into a more eco-friendly datacenter with our simple three-step approach: assess, optimize, and virtualize. Plus, with Sun's award-winning, ecologically sound servers, going green is easy (http://sun.com/eco).

Web-tier infrastructure

For enterprises focused on increasingly important Web-based services, Sun has the expertise, systems, storage, software, and services you need to build, optimize, and protect your Web-tier infrastructure throughout your entire datacenter lifecycle. Additionally, the dynamic new combination of MySQL, the world’s most popular open-source database, and the industry-leading support of Sun services can make any business datacenter more effective than ever -- especially when running on industry-leading Sun servers.

Simpler, safer, and swifter deployment

Deploying, building, and testing a new system or migrating data onto a new system is a temporal and monetary challenge for large enterprises and small businesses alike. Recognizing this challenge, Sun offers our Sun Customer Ready program. By having your Sun and third-party products integrated and factory-tested before they're shipped, you can meet your scaling challenges in record time.

Space is no longer an issue

IT environments are no longer tied to one location. Organizations can now locate their datacenters wherever it makes the most sense, and then relocate as their organizational requirements change, with the Sun Modular Datacenter S20 (widely known as Project Blackbox). Packing a fully loaded IT environment of rack-mount servers and storage into a high-density, climate-controlled, ready-to-deploy box, the Sun Modular Datacenter S20 provides powerful compute resources whenever and wherever you need them.

High performance computing (HPC)

Our servers can revolutionize your IT infrastructure regardless of your business focus. If your organization relies on computing with large volumes of critical data, you’ll find Sun’s HPC solutions an ideal choice. Sun offers a comprehensive portfolio of products, solutions, and services for all your HPC needs. You can tackle the biggest computing challenges as effectively as possible with Sun systems.

Virtualize

Your company can save money, energy, and space by taking advantage of Sun’s complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio. Our virtualization solutions can help you make more of your IT resources than ever before. Sun servers with CoolThreads technology, Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, and Sun’s x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers have the power and throughput to make virtualization and consolidation real advantages for your business.

Blade Servers

With your choice of processor architecture -- AMD Opteron processors, Intel Xeon Processors, or UltraSPARC processors -- and operating systems -- Linux,Windows, or the Solaris OS -- Sun blade systems are the most versatile, flexible, and open enterprise-class blade platforms available. Designed to bring scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and energy efficiency to your datacenter, these servers are built to industry standards to minimize complexity and maximize choice.

  • Sun Blade T6300 Server Module
  • Sun Blade T6320 Server Module
  • Sun Blade T6340 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X6220 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X6240 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X6250 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X6440 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X6450 Server Module
  • Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module
  • Sun Blade X8440 Server Module
  • Sun Blade X8450 Server Module
  • Sun Blade 6000 Modular System
  • Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
  • Sun Blade 8000 P Modular System
  • Sun Blade 8000 Modular System
  • Sun Compute Cluster

Entry Rack-mount Servers

Maximum performance, price/performance, and flexibility -- these are the benefits you can expect with Sun’s line of rack-mounted servers. Powered by your choice of processors, including AMD Opteron processors, Intel Xeon Processors, and SPARC processors -- and running your choice of platform, including Windows, Linux, and the Solaris OS, the world’s most advanced operating system -- these systems are flexible and powerful enough to meet your most demanding business requirements.

  • Sun Fire T1000 Server
  • Sun Fire T2000 Server
  • Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server
  • Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server
  • Sun Fire X2250 Server
  • Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server
  • Sun Fire X4140 Server
  • Sun Fire X4150 Server
  • Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server
  • Sun Fire X4240 Server
  • Sun Fire X4250 Server
  • Sun Fire X4440 Server
  • Sun Fire X4450 Server
  • Sun Fire X4500 Server
  • Sun Fire X4540 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server

Mid- to High-End Servers

Designed for compute density and backed by enterprise-class features, Sun’s midrange and high-end servers deliver mainframe-class RAS in a value-priced server. Designed as highly scalable virtualization/consolidation systems optimized for 24x7 mission-critical computing, Sun’s mid-range and high-end servers offer leading-edge technology. Coupled with the unbroken binary application compatibility of the Solaris OS, these servers enable you to maximize your investment by minimizing IT obsolescence.

  • Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 32 CPU Server
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 64 CPU Server

Netra Servers

  • Sun Netra T2000 Server
  • Sun Netra T5220 Server
  • Sun Netra T5440 Server
  • Sun Netra X4200 M2 Server
  • Sun Netra X4250 Server
  • Sun Netra X4450 Server
  • Sun Netra 1290 Server
  • Sun Netra CP3020 ATCA Blade Server
  • Sun Netra CP3060 ATCA Blade Server
  • Sun Netra CP3220 ATCA Blade Server
  • Sun Netra CP3250 ATCA Blade Server
  • Sun Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Server
  • Sun Netra CT900 ATCA Blade Server

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