Sun and Intel Strategic Alliance
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Sun delivers a new family of Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor systems that melds innovative design with industry-leading performance, density, and energy efficiency. For virtually unmatched flexibility, it also runs Solaris OS, Linux, Windows, and VMware. |
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Faster, More Efficient Systems Coming Your Way
Intel's Xeon platform is a highly advanced multi-core processor that's proven itself as the best for an extremely wide range of applications, from high performance computing to virtualization. Now that Intel and Sun are optimizing the Solaris OS for Xeon processors, the most thrilling breakthroughs in enterprise computing are just around the corner. Here are some of the innovations you can expect from Intel and Sun in the near future:
- Solaris support for Intel virtualization, Intel I/O acceleration, and Demand Based Switching technologies
- Single, dual and four way processor based servers
- Record-breaking server solutions for high performance computing
- Leadership in server energy efficiency and extreme performance
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Sun and Intel's System Goals
What can you expect from servers and workstations that take advantage of the optimized capabilities of the Intel Xeon processor, Solaris OS, and Java software? Here are Intel and Sun's system goals:
- Performance - Increase user productivity with world record system performance
- Efficiency - Reduce the amount of energy, space, and cooling required
- Availability - Maximize uptime through optimized modular component redundancy
- Serviceability - Improve efficiency and cut costs with simplified serviceability
- Manageability - Reduce IT staffing and maintenance costs with full remote manageability
- Scalability - Maximize scalability through the power of the Solaris OS
- Cost - Lower the cost of ownership and operation with industry standard components
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Smarter, Safer Software
The new game-changing OS for Intel customers
The Solaris 10 operating system is the best OS to fulfill your current and next-generation IT computing requirements for scalability, reliability, and security. It's unmatched in design and capabilities. And its popularity, approaching seven million registered license downloads in just two years, is still climbing fast. The fact that it's open, open source, and offered at no charge (Sun charges only for support), is just part of the story. What's more important is that Solaris 10 is already the most advanced OS on the planet, more capable than any other, and the safest system you can choose for IT applications.
Now that Intel has embraced the Solaris OS as a mainstream enterprise-class, mission-critical OS, and will support and distribute it to Intel customers, its value to IT managers will go even higher. And, it doesn't matter whether you purchase your Intel Xeon-based servers from Dell, HP, IBM, or Sun. You can get more value, performance, and security from them with the Solaris OS.
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See How Sun's Intel-based Systems Stack Up with the Competition
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The 2RU 4-socket Sun Fire X4450 server is the smallest and most energy efficient server in the industry. The server offers a maximum of 128GB of memory, 8 internal disks and 6 PCI-Express slots for additional storage or networking expansion needs. It gives you 4 GigE ports on the system board, saving a PCI-Express slot for other uses. |
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