Sun has deemed the end of life (EOL) for the Sun Fire V20z servers in favor of the new Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers. The last order date is set for April 10, 2006, last ship date is June 30, 2006, and the end of service life is June 30, 2011.
Sun Fire X2100 servers with AMD Opteron Model 152 and 175 standard configurations are being transitioned with Sun announcing the last order date as April 14, 2006, last ship date as June 30, 2006, and end of service life as June 30, 2011.
Sun plans on releasing new Sun Fire V210 and Sun Fire V240 configurations and options on January 30 that will be compliant with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. These new models comply with the European Union's directive and consequently are environmentally preferable to earlier models.
Sun's new x64-based Galaxy servers have new found support from Virtual Iron, which develops advanced data-center virtualization and management software for Linux. As a new member of Sun's Partner Advantage Program, Virtual Iron aims to provide its resellers and Sun VARs with better tools to support product porting, migration, technical assistance and joint marketing opportunities.
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