Sun Microsystems SA has announced that new Sun Fire servers powered by UltraSPARC IV+ processors have been released on the local market, providing an ideal platform for large-scale computing enterprise consolidation.
The new high-end systems - the Sun Fire E20K and E25K - complete the upgrade of the industry's most powerful and comprehensive server line running the powerful Solaris operating system.
They offer up to five times greater performance than previous generations at the same power, cooling and space costs - with no increase in overall system price. In addition, customers can take advantage of these new levels of performance and "on the fly" uniboard upgrades within the same footprint.
Sun is the only vendor that delivers an operating platform that spans the entire server landscape - from volume servers up to scalable, high-end systems - allowing customers to reduce complexities and costs during upgrades.
Helen Constantinides, manager of client solutions data centre and data management at Sun Microsystems in sub-Saharan Africa, says Sun is continuing with its technology advances in network computing.
"Our customers once again have a new competitive-edge with performance gains and investment protection that the new UltraSPARC IV+ processors offer. Sun is able to satisfy customers and demonstrate a lifecycle and proven direction for hardware as well as a true growth path that allow customers to quickly and easily take advantage of the latest server technology," she says.
Constantinides adds that Sun is the first hardware vendor to upgrade high-end servers with next-generation 90 nanometer microprocessor technology, offering customers true investment protection and the best price/performance in the industry.
The Sun Fire E20K and E25K servers are Sun's massively scalable, highly available flagship data centre servers that scale up to 72 UltraSPARC IV+ processors executing up to 144 simultaneous computing threads. These data centre systems are optimised for high-volume databases, enterprise resource planning as well as customer management and decision support.
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