Sun’s latest Fire servers and blade systems support not just the Sun Solaris OS but also Windows and Linux. The hardware also works with virtualization solutions from multiple vendors, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Sun’s own xVM Ops Center and Solaris Containers.

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Sun Microsystems introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco Systems.

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“This is a real-world game-changer in the commodity x86 marketplace. Sun’s new Solaris advancements unleash the power of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, delivering enterprise-class engineering and innovation in this market”

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Open Storage Innovation Ensures Documents, Images, Video and other Internet-based Data Growing at Over 100 Terabytes Per Month Will Live on For Future Generations.

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Sun packs 150 billion web pages into meat locker

Sun Doubles Performance and Cuts Power Consumption by up to 38% with Combination of SSD-Based Servers, OpenSolaris and Solaris ZFS.

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New Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays, Deliver Up to Three Times Better Price/Performance than Competing Products and Allow Customers to Economically Scale to Keep Pace with Rapid Data Growth.

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Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) characterizes Lustre as “the most scalable parallel file system in the world.” In evidence of this, it serves six of the top 10 supercomputers and 40 percent of the top 100.

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The details are a bit sketchy, but server maker Sun Microsystems is apparently getting ready to launch a rejiggered version of its Sparc T2 server platform that will implement an external network interface instead of using the on-chip (and very fast) networking in original Sparc T2 servers.

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A month ago, Sine Nomine Associates, the mainframe consultancy that has done most of the porting work on the “Sirius” variant of Solaris Unix to IBM’s mainframe platform, said that the code was available for people to try out on the OpenSolaris project site. And now IBM has come around to actually authorize the use of OpenSolaris on its z/VM partitioning software for mainframes.

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Sun Microsystems unveiled Monday its Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems line, as it seeks to turn around its ailing business by once again turning to open source.

The Sun Storage 7000 line, formerly known as “Amber Road,” is intended to bolster the company’s storage business by adding open source to its hardware, in a move to make it easier for customers to install and configure the systems and reduce costs. The line will be part of the company’s Unified Storage Systems.

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A mainframe version of the OpenSolaris operating system is now available for download, IBM and Sun announced Monday.

Both Solaris and the System z mainframe have a huge footprint in the financial services sector, and many customers will be interested in consolidating Solaris-based applications onto mainframe servers, says Forrester Research analyst Brad Day.

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The long-standing Sun-Fujitsu partnership as given rise to another server, in this case a rack-mounted quad-core 2.52 gigahertz SPARC64 VII machine running Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system. Touted as an entry-level unit, it is “entry-level” mostly from the perspective of an enterprise running big-iron Solaris servers, which wants an entry-level unit for development or for multi-tier application deployments.

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Fujitsu and Sun Unveil New Entry-level Server Powered by the SPARC64 VII Processor and the Solaris OS