Scalable, Mainframe-class Computing for the Open Systems Market

Sun's newest innovation in open systems computing is here: datacenter quality, mainframe-class, 24x7 mission-critical servers for open systems markets. They give you extreme scalability, sophisticated RAS features, and SPARC64 VI processing for large workloads, databases, BIDW, and OLTP.

• Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server: 32 or 64 processors
• Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server: 16 processors
• Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server: 8 processors
• Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server: 4 processors

The family also includes two rebranded servers that feature the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology. They're compact rack-optimized servers with up to eight cores with four threads per core. Their quick, 32-simultaneous threads are ideal for Web 2.0 and application tier environments, as well as OLTP database environments.

• Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server: 1RU
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server: 2RU

World Record Breaking SPARC Enterprise Benchmarks

The Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers have generated world record breaking benchmarks. The SPARC Enterprise M8000 server set a new SAP-SD World Record, is a 32-Thread Leader on SPECompM2001 benchmark and outperforms IBM p5 570 on SPECjbb2005 by over 34%. The SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server broke a Teraflop and set World Records for the SPECompL2001 and SPECompLbase2001 benchmarks, as well as surpassing IBM p5 595 and HP Integrity Superdome on Stream benchmarks. See details on SPARC Enterprise Benchmarks.

ISVs/Customers Endorse New SPARC Enterprise Servers

	"The Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers family of products based on Solaris 10 is a solid platform for IT consolidation and rehosting mainframe applications using BEA Mainframe Rehosting solution. " Wai Wong, Executive VP of Engineering , BEA
	"The scalability and reliability of the SPARC Enterprise systems based on Solaris 10 are ideal for customers to deploy the most demanding of SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform products and solutions. " Craig Rubendall, SAS Director of Research & Development
"Swisscom IT Services has successfully beta tested the new Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 system and we are convinced that it delivers outstanding performance and reliability for our mission-critical infrastructure. We're confident in Sun's ability to provide scalability and binary compatibility running the Solaris 10 Operating System. Swisscom IT Services has high performance requirements for its shared core banking and telecommunication applications, and we believe the SPARC Enterprise M5000 is an ideal virtualization and consolidation platform." Men Beglinger, Solution Architect, Swisscom IT Services
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Solaris 10 Ready Applications

Podcasts

Interview with Gary Combs on Virtualization in Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
The next generation Sun SPARC Enterprise servers where scalable, mainframe reliability meets Solaris 10, the world's most advanced OS.
Scalability--capacity for the largest workloads
Learn about the robust scalability in the new Sun SPARC Enterprise systems

Ideal for Consolidation & Virtualization

New Sun SPARC Enterprise systems are the fastest SPARC/Solaris OS servers, bringing mainframe-class availability and partitioning to the open systems market. They're an ideal choice for consolidating and virtualizing web tier environments, smaller databases and large-scale enterprise applications alike.

Unique, mainframe-class virtualization capabilities enable you to run up to 24 hardware partitions on a single server, with more granularity than ever before, for complete isolation and control. Add to that the highly reliable and scalable software partitioning features of Solaris 10 Containers, and you're talking about some the highest levels of utilization and efficiency your datacenter has ever seen.