The company also announced that the new Sun Fire enterprise servers, powered by the UltraSPARC IV processor and the Java enterprise system, have set several performance benchmarks in commercial and technical computing. Sun said its systems outperformed the fastest systems from IBM, HP, Fujitsu and others in terms of system performance, price and other capabilities.
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“We’re starting the year with our strongest product lineup ever and delivering customers the ultimate in throughput power,” said Clark Masters, executive vice president of enterprise systems products at Sun Microsystems. “Only Sun can deliver this degree of integration between hardware and software, making our systems a smarter investment over the long term as customers evolve their data centers to respond to changing business demands.”
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The new family of servers combines throughput computing technology from the processor and SMP architecture to the Solaris 10 operating system, Sun Java enterprise system and multithreaded applications. According to Sun, the new systems double data center productivity and throughput.
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Sun also expanded its server group yesterday by entering into an agreement to acquire server maker Kealia in a stock for stock merger. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kealia designs servers for the AMD’s Opteron processor.
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Sun also announced updates to its software products – the N1 grid system, Solaris 10 operating system and the Java enterprise system – that work with Sun’s new Sun Fire enterprise servers.
