The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads With A New Blend Of Server And Storage
White Papers Its SunFire X4500 system has been optimised to support quick archiving for a range of data types .old and new .and rapid access to that data once it has been stored. This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and...
[May 16, 2008, 0:00]
Sun Goes Big With Blade Servers
Talkback The SunFire X4500 is a 4-way (2x dual core) AMD Opteron server with 48x SATA HDDS, debuting at 250GB per disk and going on to 500GB per disk and above. The SunFire X4600 is a 16-way (8x dual core) AMD Opteron server with 4x 73GB SAS HDDs.
[July 12, 2006, 17:26]
Cognos Series 7 Scalability Benchmarks
White Papers The testing described in this paper shows that the Cognos Series 7 business intelligence (BI) solution can support a Solaris 8 processing environment that delivers mixed-processing response times of less than 9 seconds for 16,000 users on a...
[January 3, 2004, 23:00]
Museum Dramatically Reduces Spam Email While Providing Control To End Users
White Papers CanIt now filters the entire museum's incoming email from its location on a Sunfire v100 server running Solaris 9. While email users at the Science Museum of Minnesota dealt with the problem of spam email on a daily basis it was the increasingly...
[May 2, 2004, 0:00]
Sun Joins The Extended VMware Family
News The Sun/VMware alliance, announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco on Wednesday, covers the SunFire x64 servers and the StorEdge 6920 storage system. Sun has become the latest vendor to sign up to deliver VMware server and storage virtualisation...
[August 11, 2005, 14:10]
Opteron Gets A Performance Boost
News Sun Microsystems, for one, released performance specifications for its SunFire V20z server equipped with model 250, indicating that version of the machine will come out soon. Advanced Micro Devices announced on Tuesday that it has amplified the...
[May 18, 2004, 16:35]
Analysts Look For Profit From Sun
News Specifically, Bracelin said Solaris 9 along with Sun's SunFire line and SunOne Network Identity products will help fuel a new product cycle. Analysts are hoping that new products from Sun Microsystems will translate into bigger profits in the future.
[May 24, 2002, 7:31]
Sun Creates Server Safety Zones
News Sun has certified that its StorEdge 3900, 6900 and 9900 storage systems and the SunFire 15k server can be used in these installations. Sun Microsystems has come up with a way to insulate computer networks from fires, floods and bomb attacks: split...
[October 29, 2002, 10:48]
Sun Refreshes Server Lines
News Sun has begun selling a lower-end server using the UltraSparc T1 Niagara processor and has passed an important milestone in the development of the chip's successor. The Sun Fire T1000 server is 1U thick compared with 2U for the Sun
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Galaxy Bursts Onto The Scene
News The multi-OS Opteron-based SunFire servers are the latest attempt from Sun to boost their server market share and reclaim ground lost to rivals
[September 19, 2005, 13:30]
