Sun Microsystems and Intel White Paper Sample

Datacenter complexity, energy, and cost issues continue to plague businesses and their ability to operate effectively within tight budget constraints. In recent years, an increase in the number of collaborative, Web, and data-centric applications has driven up the number of datacenter compute servers, adding to the administrative workload and compounding an already difficult IT management task. Complexity can sometimes result in severe business impacts, slowing productivity, extending development cycles, and delaying time to market. While datacenters try to cope with increasing complexity, they strive to control energy and other operating costs, while still keeping pace with the growing demand for computing and storage resources. To achieve greater business and datacenter efficiencies and enhance agility, many small businesses and larger companies are turning to consolidation and implementing virtualization initiatives.

For more than 25 years, Sun has focused on solving customer problems by engineering solutions based on innovative technologies that deliver differentiated value. Sun’s Open Network System approach combines innovative technologies, cost-effective and industry-standard components, and Sun’s expertise in delivering dense, high-performance systems. This focus, along with an emphasis on eco-responsibility, is evident in designs of a new Sun platform family — the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 servers — which are ideal for supporting consolidation and virtualization.