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Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space.
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Sun gives servers an Opteron quad job
New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space.
Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
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Sun to tout hosting platform
Called Project Caroline, the technology is on the agenda of a Sun Labs Open House taking place at Sun offices in Menlo Park, Calif. The platform comprises a programmatically configurable pool of virtualized compute, storage, and networking resources, according to Sun.
The Project Caroline Web page states that the project is designed to serve an emerging market of small and medium-sized SaaS providers.
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Sun Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line With New UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processor-Based Systems
New Energy Efficient Servers Outperform and Outscale Competitive x86 Systems Delivering 5x More Performance, 2.5x Better Performance Per Watt in 1/2 the Space; Third Generation Solaris-Powered CMT Servers Provide Ideal Platform for Web Scale, Java and Database Applications.
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Sun ships servers open to attack
Sun Microsystems Inc. confirmed that it has shipped some servers in its Sparc Enterprise T5120 and T5220 lines with disk images that contain unsafe configurations that could allow remote attackers to hijack the machines.
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Sun’s StorageTek Honeycomb is sticky and sweet
Innovative, scalable storage system meets the special needs of “fixed content” archiving with a cellular architecture, easy management, strong performance, and extraordinary resilience.
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Sun’s 256-thread African journey begins next month
On April 9, Sun plans to unveil a line of systems known internally as the Maramba boxes. The 1U and 2U servers will run on the UltraSPARC T2+ processor - aka Victoria Falls.
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Sun Ignites Blades Market With Dramatic Revenue And Customer Growth
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Blade Portfolio Spans AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and SPARC; Sun Adds First Four-Socket Intel Xeon Blade to the Sun Blade 8000 System, Bringing Power of Solaris to Quad-Core Intel Xeon Computing.
Sun unfurls four-core Xeon-fueled blade memory hole
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Sun cheers Rock delays
Sun confirmed what we told you long ago - it’s delaying Rock-based servers until the second half of 2009. The company made this admission at its analysts conference in San Francisco. We didn’t hear a single question from the pundits about this slip - a curious performance to say the least.
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How to check System board type on various Sun servers.
The prtconf –pv | grep SUNW will collect info from prtconf output and grab the SB info. You want to look at the 1st line usually. Verify part # against the sun system handbook (http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/)
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Sun sends Netra blades through 10GE wringer
Sun is dishing out new ACTA blade server gear for telcos sporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet — with all the copious prices usually found for equipment holding the AdvancedTCA telecom industry standards.
The new portfolio, now standardized on Sun’s Solaris operating system, will let telcos connect multi-core and multithreaded ATCA equipment directly into 10Gb/s networks.
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Sun Looks To Intel To Boost Workstation Sales
Sun Microsystems today announced its first Intel-based desktop workstation computers in years, powered by Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Quad processors. They fill out the Sun workstation lineup, which includes SPARC and AMD Opteron-based workstations as well.
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