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 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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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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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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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.

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Sun unfurls four-core Xeon-fueled blade memory hole

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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The prtconf –pv | grep SUNW will collect info from prtconf output and grab the SB info. You want to look at the 1^st line usually. Verify part # against the sun system handbook (http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/)

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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 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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Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM’s AIX on Power offerings and Sun’s Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a technology decision - thus both abrograting and announcing the intended decision. What do you do?

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Sun Microsystems launched on Monday the first servers based on its newest microprocessors as it tries to boost sales of energy-efficient, high-performance computers for businesses.

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Sun Announces Niagara 2 Servers

Sun Microsystems, Inc., has introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.

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