Sun is offering price cuts of up to 25 percent on its Sun FireTM V880 server, now equipped with the 1.05 GHz UltraSPARCR III Cu processor, making it 17 percent faster than before. Prices are also reduced by up to 20 percent on the Sun FireTM V480 server line. Both platforms are ideal for the development and delivery of services on demand using the Sun portfolio of software products integrated into the SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) architecture. Shipping more eight-processor servers than Dell, HP and IBM, Sun is in a position to pass volume production savings on to its customers.

"Over the last year, Sun has introduced a variety of products that have significantly raised the bar on price-performance. The Sun Fire V880 server featuring the 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor and an up-to-25 percent reduction in price is no exception," said Warren Mootrey, director, Volume Systems Products at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Sun Fire V880's success combined with the phenomenal acceptance of our Sun Fire V480 server has helped us grow significant revenue market share in the 4-8 way category. With these reductions in price and the increase in performance, we expect to penetrate the market even more by providing enterprise-class systems at low-cost computing prices."

With its new 1.05 GHz processors, the Sun Fire V880 running Sybase IQ 12.5 beat the price-performance world record on the TCP-H@1000 GB benchmark, besting the HP9000 SuperDome's previous world record by nearly 50 percent. This achievement makes the Sun Fire V880 system with Sybase IQ an ideal low-cost one-terabyte data warehousing solution at a three-year TCO of less than $233,000. Competitive offerings come in at around $5.2 million for a similar three-year period.

The TPC-H Benchmark TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The ability of the Sun Fire V880 server to consolidate multiple applications on a single server and to do that at an aggressive price point should make the system most attractive to customers in the major vertical markets, whether they be education, telecom, financial services or government.

Both servers are also now available through Sun iForceSM partners. In addition, the Sun Fire V880 and V480 servers can be pre-configured and integrated onsite at Sun prior to shipping through the SunSM Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program. [...read more...]

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