Recognizing the central the datacenter plays in the growing, changing web services marketplace, Oracle has published the white paper "Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems from Oracle," which extols the capabilities of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems whose blade server architecture offers considerable promise toward addressing both this phenomenal rate of growth and the increasing inability of the legacy datacenter to provide the necessary flexibility required by applications such as Oracle Ebusiness Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and the Oracle database itself.

A further limitation typical of the legacy datacenter, the white paper notes is that most of the blade server platforms installed in them lock customers into a proprietary and vendor-specific infrastructure that often requires redesign of existing network, management, and storage environments. The paper contends that such legacy chassis designs also often artificially constrain expansion capabilities, with the result that traditional blade architectures have been largely restricted to low-end Web and IT services.

The Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems from Oracle are designed to provide open modular architectures capable of delivering on the promises of blades without compromising features or functions. These blades, the white paper continues, taking an open systems approach, are optimized for performance, efficiency, and density. They employ the latest processors, operating systems, industry-standard PCIe I/O modules, expandable storage, transparent networking, and consolidated management.

The available choice of server modules based on the latest Sun SPARC and Intel Xeon processors gives organizations the platforms that best match their applications or existing infrastructure, without the burden of vendor lock-in, the white paper notes.

The comprehensive multitier blade portfolio that the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems comprise are optimized to run Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris and Oracle VM as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows Server and VMware. The result is a product line that lets organizations deploy the broadest range of applications on the most ideal platforms while it also meets the needs of the datacenter and enterprise business goals, protecting IT investment into the future as it does so.

The white paper's contents include coverage of:

• An Open Systems Approach to Modular Architecture
• Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems Overview
• Server Module Architecture
• I/O Expansion, networking, Storage, and Management

As the paper notes in its conclusion, "Oracle’s standard and open-systems based approach yields choice and avoids compromise — providing a platform that benefits from widespread industry innovation. With chassis designed for investment protection into the future, organizations can literally cable once, and change their deployment options as required — mixing and matching server modules as desired."

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